“
"Magdalena means to send my original affidavit and that of my son to Spain; he says Yrujo has sent orders to all the agents
of Spain in the United States not to forward any dispatches for him to Spain; he told me he placed so much confidence in your
private virtues and generosity that he would request to have it transmitted to some of the American consuls in Spain.
"I printed six copies of the Spanish Pamphlet with the purpose that if it should prove useful to the Government to place a
copy in the hands of our ambassadors or Consuls in Spain or France, that they might be had--if they can be of any such use,
they shall be forwarded . . .
"Permit me to ask the return of the affidavits &c--as I have no other copy and it may be proper to be possessed of a copy
lest Yrujo on his return to Spain should misrepresent & send the misrepresentation here--I do not require any other answer,
as your time must be amply engaged.”
Jefferson replied on November 24: “
It has not been in my power sooner to acknolege the reciept of your favors of the 2
d. 4
th. & 16
th. instant. it is true that while at Monticello I recieved the sheets of a Spanish pamphlet by successive mails, but as I saw
no indication of the quarter from which they came, I supposed they were forwarded by one of the Spanish gentlemen, and laid
by the first sheets till all should be recieved. but in coming from Monticello they were left, so that in fact I have not
read it. if you will be so good as to send on the half dozen copies you retain to the Secretary of State with a note of their
cost, he will remit it, & we shall give the pamphlet a serious perusal, and make a proper use of it’s contents. the letters
of m
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r)
Magdalena have been forwarded according to his desire . . .”
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J. 89
Droit public de la France par Lauraguais.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 97. no. 120, as above.
LAURAGUAIS,
Louis Léon Felicité, Duc de Brancas, Comte de.
Extrait du droit public de la France, par Louis de Brancas, comte de Lauraguais.
Seconde édition, revuë & corrigée . . .
A
Londres.
m. dcc. lxxi
. [1771.]
Law 165
8vo. 36 leaves, list of errata on the last page.
French marbled calf, gilt back, marbled endpapers, r.e., silk bookmark. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
Entered on the undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
4.0.
Louis Léon Felicité, Duc de Brancas, Comte de Lauraguais, 1733-1824, peer of France, scholar and man of letters. The first edition was published in France, earlier in the same year,
in quarto.
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J. 90
Malesherbe sur le mariage des Protestans.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 100. no. 119, as above, with reading
Malesherbes.
[MALESHERBES,
Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de.]
Mémoire sur le mariage des Protestans, en 1785.--Second mémoire sur le mariage des Protestans. A
Londres,
1787.
HQ1019 .F8 M2
First Edition. 2 parts in 1. 102 leaves, including the first blank, 104 leaves, including the title and half title. The title of
the first part is as above, without name of place or printer.
Barbier III, 167.
Quérard VI, 541.
Contemporary calf. Not initialled by Jefferson. On the title of the first part is written in a contemporary hand:
par Chretn. Guill. Lamoignon de Malesherbes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, 1721-1794, French statesman and minister. On his joining the ministry in 1787, Jefferson wrote of him to John Jay, from
Paris, June 21, 1787 (the year of the publication of the second part of this work): “
. . . the new accessions to the ministry are valued here . . . Monsieur de Malesherbes, called also to the council, is unquestionably
the first character in the kingdom for integrity, patriotism, knowlege, & experience in business . . .
”
This work has been attributed also to Joly de Fleury.
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