“ they are they have been rendered more so, as I am told, by a translation into French. that I may have neither merit nor demerit not my own, I have consented to their publication in England. I advised the bookseller to send 200 copies to Philadelphia & 200 to Richmond, supposing that number might be sold in the United States: but I do not know whether he will do it. if you give me leave I will send you a copy of the original impression . . . ”

Rutledge replied on October 23 of the same year: “. . . I thank you my good Friend for an offer of a copy of the original impression of your Notes on Virginia--I beg you will send them, I shall accept them with a great deal of Pleasure--You seem to consider the quarter of the Globe from whence America was peopled, & the Manner, as now reduced to a certainty. But it is not so absolutely determined, as to preclude conjecture. A Gentleman with a great deal more learning, & a great deal more sense than I have, is convinced that America was peopled from Carthage--He maintains that when Hanno their famous Admiral was sent out to settle colonies, some of their Vessels mist their port of Destination, & were never able afterwards to regain it; that the Trade-Winds blew them to the coast of America, thro’ the Gulph of Mexico--In this opinion he is confirmed from the exact resemblance which he observed between the People who inhabit that country & the Creek Indians--the first time he saw an Indian--& from words of both, sounding alike, & conveying the same meaning--Diodorus Seculus is the Author who particularly mentions Hanno’s Voyage. You have him at Hand, we have him not, & you can refer to him--Think of it; & when I next write you, I will give you at Large the conjectures of my Philosopher . . .”

Stockdale replied to Jefferson’s letter of September 10 on the 21st of the same month: “I this morning called upon M ^r. Faden map engraver, &c. at Charing Cross, he his [sic] a tradesman of the strictest honor & integrity in his line of business.

"I put the question candidly to him “what would be a fair Price for me to pay for the use of the Plate of Virginia” when he gave it as his opinion that “thirty Guineas was betwixt man & man a fair price for working 1,000.” M ^r. Cox Printer in Quality Court Chancery Lane is the person that I employed to work your Plate, he has worked exactly 1,000 & 25, to supply any accidents that might happen by tearing, &c, notwithstanding M ^r. Faden’s opinion I now leave it to you to deduct whatever you think proper from your Bill . . . I will endeavour to find out some method to send your Books to different parts of America, as speedily as possible . . .”

To this Jefferson replied on October 10: “ Your favor of Sep. 21. inclosing your account came safely to hand . . . also the 34. copies of the Notes on Virginia £9-1-4. for which I have no objections to be answerable when the bookseller shall have sold them, but not before. with respect to the use of the plate for the map, I am allowed 10 ^d sterling a peice here for those annexed to the French edition, & no objection to it from the bookseller, and those things are dearer in England than here. I could not abate to you, without, in honor, doing the same to him, and then I should not be reimbursed the money I paid for engraving the plate in London, and correcting it in Paris, with charges of transportation &c so that I could not without loss let them go at less than 10 ^d. a peice, making on the 1025 struck for you £42-14-2 . . . be so good as to send me also the copperplate of my map. ”

Concerning Morellet’s translation of the Notes into French, Jefferson wrote to William Carmichael from Paris on December 15, 1787: You ask me if there is any French translation of my Notes. there is one by the Abbé Morellet: but the whole order is changed and other differences made, which, with numerous typographical errors render it a different book, in some respects perhaps a better one, but not mine. I am flattered by the Count de Campomanes's acceptance of the original. I wish I had thought to have sent one to Don Ulloa . . .

On December 31, the Abbé Morellet wrote to Jefferson, both being in Paris at the time: “Monsieur jefferson a eu la bonté de me promettre de faire revenir de Londres la planche jointe aux observations sur la virginie lorsque le libraire anglois en auroit fait usage pour son edition. je le prie de vouloir bien me procurer le retour de cette planche qui manque encore à 250 exemp. de l’edition françoise & lesquels demeureroient invendus sans cela. je lui serai bien obligé de donner ses ordres en consequence. je prens la liberté de lui envoyer en même tems la machine a tirer des copies dont je lui ai parlé et ”