Warden acknowledged the receipt of this letter on May 5, 1814: “Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 29th of December last . . . The first copy of
Toulongeon was left with other volumes at Cherburg, the Captain of the
Hornet refusing to take the case which contained them on board . . .”
On February 27, 1815, Jefferson acknowledged the receipt of the book to Warden, with his comments: “
. . . I send you a copy of my Parliamentary Manual, and am to acknolege the reciept of Toulongeon, whom I have read with great
satisfaction and information. he has given me the first luminous view of the course of the French revolution to the death
of Robespierre, of which till then my ideas had been entirely chaotic. he has solved to me the riddle of the Jacobins. many
of the earlier set of them had been personally known to me, and altho’ I knew them disposed to establish a republic on the
ruins of the constitution of 91. yet I could never recognize them in the anarchical proceedings which overthrew all government.
a history of that club would be curious, & valuable. but what we now want especially is a history of the Directory, and one
of Bonaparte. I hope some well-informed, candid, plain narrator is engaged in it. no one would do it better than M. Toulongeon
. . .
”
On August 10 of the same year, in answering a query of John Adams on Dumouriez (see no. 233) Jefferson wrote: “
you will find his character in the most excellent revolutionary history of Toulongeon.”
François Emmanuel, Vicomte de Toulongeon, 1748-1812, French historian and author. The first edition was published at Strassburg and Paris,
by Treuttel and Wurtz, 2 vol. 8vo.
David Bailie Warden, 1772-1845. Warden was an author, diplomat, and book-collector. He was born in Ireland and educated in Scotland, but emigrated to the United States in 1799 because of his association with the United Irishmen. In 1804 he went to Paris as secretary to General John Armstrong, and in 1810 he became the United States Consul in that city. Warden was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and he published a number of books and translations. See the Index.
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103
Biographia Gallica.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 10. no. 31, as above.
Biographia Gallica: or, the Lives of the most eminent French Writers of Both Sexes, in Divinity, Philosophy, Mathematics,
History, Poetry, &c. From the Restoration of Learning under Francis I. to the Present Time . . . Vol. I [-II].
London: Printed for
R. Griffiths and
L. Davis,
1752.
First Edition. 2 vol. 12mo. Vol. I, 150 leaves; vol. II, 156 leaves; the first leaf in vol. I has the half-title on the recto and
the advertisement of
Lockyer Davis on the verso. The second volume has no half-title; the second and
third leaves contain a list of
Books and Pamphlets sold by
M. Cooper and
G. Woodfall; errata list in both volumes.
Lowndes I, page 205.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Biographia Gallica, an anonymous publication, was possibly compiled by the publisher, Lockyer Davis, 1719-1791.
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104
Pelloutier histoire des Celtes.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 13. no. 46, as above.
PELLOUTIER,
Simon.
Histoire des Celtes, et particulierement des Gaulois et des Germains, depuis les Tems fabuleux, jusqu’à la Prise de Rome par
les Gaulois: Par Mr. Simon Pelloutier. Tome Premier. [Second.]
A
La Haye: chez
Isaac Beauregard,
1750.
DC62 .P386
2 vol. 12mo. vol. I, 310 leaves; vol. II, 215 leaves; titles printed in red and black; at the beginning of each volume is
a list of the authorities cited and the editions used in compiling the book.
This edition not in Quérard and not in Graesse. According to Quérard the first edition was printed in 1740-1750.
Purchased in 1785. In a letter dated from Paris, March 3, 1785, addressed to the Rev. Samuel Henley, concerning the purchase
of his library, Jefferson wrote: “
From miss Digges I purchased Pelloutiere’s history of the Celts. 2 vols. 12
mo. belonging to mr Gwatkin. I shall be obliged to you to add their worth to your draught on me, & to permit me to make you
the channel of it’s communication to mr Gwatkin . . .
”
Simon Pelloutier, 1694-1757, German historian of French descent.
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