umes only, that Jefferson entered them in his undated manuscript catalogue: Aeschyli quae supersunt commentaris scholiis et lexico. Schutz. Gr. 2. v. 8 ^vo.

This entry occurs immediately below that of Potter’s Aeschylus, also entered as 2 volumes.

Three years later Jefferson ordered the third volume from Froullé of Paris in a letter dated from Philadelphia on October 10, 1792: “ Aeschyli tragoediae. Gr. Schutz. Halae Grebaveri. 1782. 8 ^vo. I bought as Strasburg the four first plays, which were all then printed. it is the remaining three which I want to compleat my vols. not to be bound. ”

On January 20, 1806, Jefferson ordered the last volume from Reibelt of Baltimore, selected with other books from his catalogue, to be brought by Mr. Guestier from Bordeaux: “ Aschyli tragoediae quae supersunt recensuit Christ. Godfr. Schuz. Halae. 1784. Supplicantes, Choephorae et Furiae seulement en feuilles. ”

Regarding this volume, Jefferson wrote to Mayer & Brantz, the importers, from Washington on April 4 of the following year, 1807: “ In the list of books furnished by me to m( ^~ r) Reibelt and which you were so kind as to undertake to import was an edition of Aeschyli tragediae Gr. & Lat. Schutz. 2 vols 8 ^vo. stitched. this was by mistake sent to m ( ^~ r) Reibelt at New Orleans, from whom I recieved it last night, with a request to account to you for it’s value. the object of the present letter is to ask the favor of your information of the price which shall be remiteed [ sic -- Ed. ] to you . . .”

Mayer & Brantz replied from Baltimore on April 6: “The Book mentioned in Your respected Letter of 4 ^th. inst. was imported by us from Hamburg by M ^r. Reibelt’s desire; not knowing it was for Your use we sent it to him. The Cost, Sir, is 8 Marks, which, with all the Charges, are equivalent, @ 39 ^c. P ^r. M ^k. to $3.12 . . .”

An edition of Aeschylus in 4 volumes was bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt, on June 30, 1807, by John March, cost 4 dollars.

Were it not for this binding bill and the entries in the 1849 catalogue, it would be possible to assume that Jefferson had conflated the Greek and English texts and bound them in eight volumes. [For Jefferson’s conflated texts see a number of entries in Chapter I, Antient History.]

Ebert 189, 210. Dibdin I, 240 (Schütz). Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 758 (Potter).

Christian Gottfried Schütz, 1747-1832, German classical scholar. Three editions of his Aeschylus were printed at Halae.

Robert Potter, 1721-1804, English poet and politician. The first edition of his translation of Aeschylus was published in Norwich in 1777. This second edition contains at the beginning Potter’s notes on the tragedies of Aeschylus, written at the request of, and addressed to, Mrs. Montagu, and dated from Scarning, where Potter was the incumbent, 11 July 1778. The Preface, also written from Scarning, is dated September 8, 1777. The list of subscribers occupies twenty-two pages.