2
Essai general d’Education par Jullien.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 92, as above.
JULLIEN,
Marc Antoine.
Essai Général d’Éducation physique, morale, et intellectuelle; suivi d’un Plan d’Éducation-Pratique pour l’Enfance, l’Adolescence
et la Jeunesse . . . Par M. A. J. . . .
A
Paris: de l’Imprimerie de
Firmin Didot,
1808.
LB675 .J8A15
First Edition. 4to. 159 leaves.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by the author, who wrote from Paris, 15 Novembre, 1809: “. . . Permettez aujourdhui, Monsieur, que je saisisse une occasion favorable pour vous adresser directement, par les mains
de M. Porée, qui retourne aux Etats-Unis, un faible témoignage des sentimens d’estime et de vénération, dont je suis depuis
longtems pénétré pour vous. Veuillez agréer l’hommage d’un
Essai général d’Education, que j’ai composé, il y’a deux années, et dont la seconde partie contient un petit
traité sur l’Emploi du tems
, qu’a été publié séparément. j’en prépare une seconde édition, que je prendrai la liberté de vous offrir . . .”
Porée despatched the book to Jefferson from Philadelphia on May 2, 1810, with an explanatory note.
Jefferson acknowledged the receipt of the book to M. Porée from Monticello on May 21: “
Your favor of the 2
d. instant has been duly recieved, together with the Essay of M. Julien on education, & I pray you to accept my thanks for
the favor you have done me in being the channel of conveying it. this will be still increased should you permit my acknolegements
to M. Julien for this mark of his attention to find a place in any letter you may have occasion to write him, which moreover
I shall take care to express to him myself in a future letter to be addressed to him . . .
”
On July 15, Jefferson wrote to Jullien: “
I have safely recieved the very valuable present of your work on education, and I pray you to accept my thanks for this mark
of your attention. I am now engaged in reading it, and have made sufficient progress to see it’s great merit, but the opportunity
occurring at this moment of conveying to you my acknolegements, forbids me to delay making them, as the intercourse between
our two countries is unfortunately become rare & precarious. the plan of your work is so happily adapted to practice, that
we may safely say it will have a greater effect in execution than has ever been produced by the works of mere theory; and
at the same time the great branches of pursuit are so well combined, that little more will be necessary in any country than
to adapt them by the small modifications which local circumstances may require to the use of any particular country, and the
special circumstances of it’s inhabitants. the benefits of your labours therefore are not confined to a single age or nation.
multitudes unborn will owe to you their physical strength, moral correctness, & instruction . . .
”
Marc Antoine Jullien, 1775-1848, French publicist.
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3
Tracts on education. Ogilvie. Destutt Tracy. Lancaster. Dupont.
4
to.
These tracts were not sold to Congress in 1815, but were Lot no. 209 in the 1829 auction sale. They are now in the Library
of Congress.
4
Nelson on the management of children.
12
mo.
An Essay on the Government of Children, under Three General Heads: viz. Health, Manners and Education. By James Nelson, Apothecary.
This author is called for in the Index of the 1815 catalogue with reference to chapter 15. There is no Nelson title entry
in that chapter, and it would seem that the book was not sold to Congress.
The first edition was published in London in 1753 in octavo. An edition was published in Dublin in 1763 in duodecimo, which may have been the one in Jefferson’s library.
James Nelson, 1710-1794, a London apothecary.
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