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Show ytd? 5? ,-5l lM i 1 Mi - L ' ! l,s l " M l fV , 4 -1 . ' - s x ft v I- -5;x 1 X Tfl t ' , . ' - rf-t s " - ' " i ! v i xV . 1 x ' " ' ' ' , - ' IV' ' - X llg J. kind aa to send me the last year cam safely to hand, and I duly note the balance of 38-40 to my debet. I now engage my friend. John Yaughan of Philadelphia to place 100. Dollars In Paris at your order, and request you to send me the books on the back hereof, here-of, or so many of them as the remittance remit-tance will pay for. curtailing the catalogue cat-alogue at the end. so as to bring It within the limit of the remittance. It is arranped with a view of omitting those which I am the least anxious to possess, but retain In your hands the sum neccssnrv to procure the Dion Cas-sius Cas-sius from Germany if not to be had nearer- Yillers in his " Etit de la literature en Allemaerne in 1S07.' pa. 33. snvs "le scavant M. Fr. Oulll. Sturtz a public en 1S07. un Di--.n Casslus, and a 'vntalocue de la h-l'tirle Crec. I.ritlne. Allemnnde." whirl) 1 possess, announces tt in these worris: Pionls Onssii Historia koinan.i. ed Sturtz I.eips. In Svo (sous presse)' the title pape of tins catalnuue being lost, 1 know not It's date of time & place, hut I suspect tt to be German, and of the date of ISIS, as I see articles of that date In it and none later. I must request vour endeavor to procure this edition Let the bindings be all solid and handsome. hand-some. I have seen announced a ' Recuctl tt parallele des edifices de tout genre, anciens et modernes par I. N. Dvrand a Tecole Poly technique," books of this kind are so often at extragant prices, that one is afraid to ask them without knowing their price. If It does not cost more than 40. of 50. f send It. If more I pray you to write me the cost, that I may Judge whether to put tt Into my next Invoice, as I wish to get It If within reasonable bounds. Be so good as to dispatch these books with as little delay as possible, that they may arrive before the storms of autumn or winter, and accept the assurance of my esteem & respect. TH: JEFFKRSON. Doctor Butler's announcement led to the revelation by John UrI Lloyd, president pres-ident of the Lloyd library In Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, that ids library also had a hitherto hith-erto unpublished Jefferson letter. The discovery of this letter came about In a dramatic manner. Several years ago the Lloyd library purchased In Paris the first volume of "North American Sylva" by F. Andre Miehnux, a noted French traveler and botanist. When Miss Edith WycofT, present curator of the library, was cataloguing the book, she discovered securely pasted In It n letter written by Jefferson to M. Michaux. This letter written eight years earlier than the Columbia letter as a token of esteem to the President's friend, In France, also reveals In n manner fully as Interesting as ttie other oth-er communication one of the Interests of the many-sided Jefferson, viz. his keen appreciation of any contribution to the existing scientific knowledge of the time. The text of the letter follows fol-lows : Montlcolio. Deo. 14, 1813. .sir: My Interior situation among the mountains, and great distance from I'.uy seiipnrt town, Is extremely unfriendly un-friendly to purntunl correspondence with the other side, of the Ailantlc. Vessels bounil to that quarter are generally gen-erally gone before I learn tlielr destination des-tination by the public papers. I have received from you, at different times, several 1 1 vra Isons of your excellent work on the forest trees of America, to wit the 1st and 2nd stir les Pins el Sripllis et Hlir les Chenes and llle 91b and 10th on the llcluln, CiiHtnnea, FiUliiH, lilospyros, elc. I have gone over them with great pleimure and received re-ceived from them much Information which had escaped my own notice, al-iho' al-iho' the suhJeclH llo tinder my eyo. They cont:iln a viilurible addition to ihe knowledge of American trees and claim for you the lhanlts of all who Interest themselves In this most Inter-enllng Inter-enllng branch of science. 1 pray you to accept my pot Hon of that tribute ns lemr among those who set the high- I est value on your work. I have not seen the work of M. Tes-slrr, Tes-slrr, mentioned by you on the subject of Ihe Merinos, but Hint race of sheep Is multiplying among us most extensively. exten-sively. The general attention paid to them will soon render their wool nn article of export, allho' our own manufactures man-ufactures tiro fast Increasing also and will soon make us Independent of lOngland for run ti u fact u re of wool and eotlon, an well nn for many other arilclcH. t'.eslileH the domcHllr: benefit to be derived from Ibis economy, the political ndviinlnge of weakening permanently per-manently n bllter and permanent ene. my are of real I m porl a nee. Willi everv wish for the successful proHecii t ton nf the vtillinble labors you are ellCflKed In. he pleased to accept the nrsurance of my great respect nnd eieem. Til. .IKKKKHSON 4 NEW national holiday will be added to the list of days officially recognized by the government for patriotic ob- r 7 servance if congress heeds 'yLy the recommendations made by the Thomas Jefferson ijdF Centennial commission at its u V meeting held in connection with the sessions of the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, Vir-ginia, Charlottesville, recently. These recommendations were to celebrate April 13 each year as Jefferson's birthday, birth-day, to assure the preservation of Monticello, the home of Jefferson, to establish an appropriate shrine in Washington where may be preserved records and relics connected with the adoption of the Declaration of American Amer-ican Independence and to continue the nonpartisan work of patriotic education educa-tion conducted by the Thomris Jefferson Jeffer-son Memorial foundation. Thus the name of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence Independ-ence and third President of t lie United States,- would be immortalize' along with that of Washington and Lincoln as the only Presidents whose birthdays are national holidays and Monticello would take its place with Mount Vernon and the house In Springfield, 111., as a patriotic shrine. Although Jefferson Is regarded as the "Patron saint" of one of the two major political parties and the term "Jeffersonian democracy" is a part of our ccrrp.nt speech, this proposal to honor him should have the support of all Americans because it is strictly nonpartisan. The officers of the commission, com-mission, appointed under an act of Congress, are: President f'oolidge; Vice Prcsidint Dawes; Nicholas Long-worth, Long-worth, speaker of the house; George P. McLean (I!.). ..enntor from Con necticul ; Joseph T. Robinson (!.), senator sen-ator from Arkansas; Simeon I). Fe-s (It.), senator from Ohio; Koyal S. Copclnnd (D.), senator from New York; Finis J. Garrett (D.), represenl-ative represenl-ative from Tennessee; John Q. Til-son Til-son (I!.), represent alive from Connecticut; Connecti-cut; K. Walton Moore (!'.), representative represent-ative from Virginia; Robert L. Bacon (It.), representative froiri New York, and Dr. Edwin A. Aldema ; Claude '! Bowers; Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook; Henry Ford; Stuart G. Gibboiiy; Thomas F. R.yati, and Felix M. Warburg. War-burg. Through the work of tin; Thoinaa Jefferson Memorial foundation Monti cello Is being gradualy restored lo its original condition and visitors there find It easy to believe that they are living in the past of more than a century cen-tury ago. One aid especially in esiab Railing that iitmo.'pliere Is the large number of Jefferson relics which have been presented to the foundation with In Ihe last few months and which will be on exhibition at Mont ircllo hence forth. The foundation recently made I his; announcement : ''he following Items vere dormled l,y the late .June J:nndolpti Harrison I'.sn-Oall, I'.sn-Oall, a deicend.-int of Thomas Jefferson, and the wife of Alexander B. P.andalt of Waterburg, Conn., who, with his son. Burton H. P.. Randall, carried out the wishes expressed by the donor In her life time: The Chippendale dining room table originally presented to Jefferson by George Wythe, the famous chancellor of Virginia and the first law professor In America and signer of the Declara-Mon Declara-Mon of Independence. Three Heppelwhite dining room chairs purchased by Jefferson while minister to France, and brought by him to Monticello, where the chairs remained re-mained until a few years after his death. The orginal mahogany bedside, candle-table used for many years at Mon-ilcello Mon-ilcello and which originally belonged to Jane Randolph Jefferson, mother of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson's original writing and drafting desk used by him for many years at Monticello. This desk has a double top with a sliding board on the side and discloses a number of the ingenious features used by Thomas Jefferson In his design for the little desk on which he wrote the draft for the Declaration of Independence. The following articles were donated by Miss Fanny M. Purke. of Alexandria, Alexan-dria, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson's paint box. used by him at Monticello. particularly for his architectural drawings. Many of these drawings ore still preserved, as he Is the father of American architecture. Thomas Jefferson's Ivory memorandum memoran-dum leaflet pads, a locket with Jefferson's Jeffer-son's hair, a number of personal trinkets, trin-kets, buttons, buckles, etc., and three pillows from Jefferson's bed. two of which were under his head when he died. Mrs. Victor Kauffman, wife of the editor of the Washington Star, has d-inated three dining room chairs vhleh formerly belonged to Jefferson, nnd she has deP"rrMed Mrs. Rose Gouvorneur Hoes, of Washington, chairman of the Jefferson committee In lhnt cliy anil a descendant of James Monroe, to present the chairs In h"r behalf to Monllcello. In addition the foundation ncknowl crimes present'itlon of a very unusual and Interestln'r colored drawing of Monllcello, made many years ago In France from the reco! leci ion of a visiting vis-iting Frenchman. This drawing was purchased by and nresenUrl to the foundation by Mrs Marlln W Littleton of New York city. The foil ndn lion also ncknowled"es presentation of a h'md'iome s'llf Vlr-rlnla Vlr-rlnla ting, presenter) lo Monticello bv the women's comniiliee who had charge of the replV-a of the Jefferson house on High street at the Scs'o'iocn-tennial Scs'o'iocn-tennial expositor! In Philadelphia. .-f .which onmmlt'cc Miss Caroline Kinkier was ehn Irrriri n. nnd which onmmlMee vns r cores'' n 1 ed bv Mi'"' A"nes Mori son and a delc-at ion which formally delivered the flag to Monllcello Of Interest, too. lo nil Americans was I lie recent announcement by Presld-nl Nicholas Murray Butler of Coliiiubla unlwrsity upon his return from Italy that be was bringing with tilm as a gift to the Columbia library n hitherto unpublished loiter of Jefferson's. This Idler, ordering a nickel of book" for Jefferson's private library, dated ,Mon tiodlo. April 1!, 1H''1. and addressed to Messrs. De Lures Freres, Rue Ser-penlc. Ser-penlc. Paris, g'ves an Interesting and Instructive view of the wide and varied range of Jefferson's Intellectual lie-livilles lie-livilles and Inleresls. Tin; Idler follows fol-lows : Monllcello, April 10-21 M'ssrH. de time KrereM: The packet of books you wore. St) |