Anthony Finley to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1818
From Anthony Finley
Philada August 3d 1818
sir,
Your “Notes on Virginia,” having become scarce, and being frequently enquired for, I take the liberty of writing to you relative to them, and asking your permission to print an edition, if you have not made an arrangement for that purpose elsewhere.
If I should reprint it, I would be glad to have a corrected copy for my printer to use, that he might avoid the errors which crept into some of the former editions. My object would be to make a handsome octavo volume.
When you have leisure you will oblige me by a few lines—and I would also thank you to say whether you could make any additions which you think would enhance the value of the work
You will, I trust, sir, excuse the liberty I have taken, to which I am prompted by a desire of seeing a well executed edition of your valuable “Notes” in circulation.
Anthy Finley
P. S. I send accompanying a sheet of my edition of Dr smiths Moral Sentiments, as a specimen of the type, & manner in which I think the “Notes” should be printed.
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Albert Gallatin, 24 Nov. 1818, on recto and verso; addressed: “Hon. Thomas Jefferson Monticello Virginia”; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 3 Aug.
Finley enclosed a printed sheet, not found, from his edition of Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Philadelphia, 1817).
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- Finley, Anthony; letter from search
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- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on the State of Virginia search
- Notes on the State of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson); revised edition proposed search
- Smith, Adam; The Theory of Moral Sentiments search
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