“ laziness of another, and the difficulty of getting a third. If I live to see a republican president in the chair, I shall
have a press of my own in Richmond; and give the Aristocrats a cut and thrust vol. per annum for some years to come . . .”
On September 29 Callender wrote again from Richmond Jail: “I have not been able to get any more of the Prospect; but next week I shall be able to send either the whole, or nearly so
. . .”
On October 24 Jefferson wrote to George Jefferson: “
I recieved a letter from m(
~
r)
Callender dated in the jail on the 11th inst. informing me he was about to publish a volume but was under some difficulty
in getting it affected. I will ask the favor of you to call on him
yourself
and to furnish him fifty dollars on my account. for which I will request him to send me two copies of his work when out.
& the rest to remain till convenience . . .
”
George Jefferson replied from Richmond on November 3: “Your favor of the 24th ultimo should have been answered by last post agreeably to your request but that I did not return home
until a few days ago after an absence of several weeks. It was then handed to me by Mr R.
"I immediately waited on Mr. C. and paid him the sum you directed. I desired him to send you two copies of his work immediately,
and the balance at his convenience, but he the next day sent me a packet which from its bulk I suppose must have contained
a dozen, and which I forwarded by Mr Randolph.
"Mr R. having informed me that you intended this letter
for me alone I shall keep it with my private papers, and as I could not with propriety charge you with the money above mentioned in the
books of G. & J. without filing the letter in which its payment is directed, I concluded to pay it out of my private funds,
it can therefore remain between you & myself, until I have the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello, which I expect will be
in the course of the ensuing summer at furthest . . .”
On October 27 and again with another letter dated only October 1800 Callender sent to Jefferson more pages of
The Prospect.
On November 1 Callender wrote from Richmond Jail to Jefferson: “I had, some days ago, a visit from M
r. Jefferson of this place. I have just now got the pamphlets stitched, and have sent him 3 copies for you; but under the same
parcel, I used the freedom, I almost fear I was in the wrong, of I inclosing
[
sic
--
Ed.
] 9 for M
r. Madison, who is a Subscriber, or was to the first part, for 15 copies, so that I hazard nothing with him in sending him
9.
I did not know his address; but I understand that his place is not at a considerable distance from yours.
"If health permits, I mean to begin printing the second part, of which a great deal has already been published in the Petersburg
Republican
, next week . . .”
On November 17 he wrote from the same place: “I inclose some newspapers. and shall probably use the freedom of sending you by this same post a part of the second part of
the 2
d volume of
The Prospect. The whole is written excepting the
first Chapter. I could not have gone to press, but for the assistance of a Subscriber, who sent me 14 days since his 50 dollars,
as ment
d in my last, as I want a great deal of money here, I cannot get . . .”
On January 9, 1801, Callender wrote from the jail: “I hope you will pardon my having sent you revises, instead of clean Sheets of the thing now printing; a freedom inexcusable
in any circumstances but mine. I Cannot get my printer to work, although I am actually paying him
ready money, as he goes on. So that the whole Sale of the Season will be lost, by the delay of
revising the Sheets! I mention this, Sir, that you may not think me addicted to freedoms I would not assume . . .”
On July 7, 1802, James Monroe wrote to Jefferson from Richmond: “I enclose you some columns of a paper here edited by M
r. Callender. It was whispered some ”
