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[[George Wythe]] asks [[Thomas Jefferson]] if he could think of a way that people would be able to have access to the copies of the acts of the general assembly that can only be found in Jefferson's collection without making it difficult for Jefferson or endangering the books to loss or damage.
 
[[File:WytheToJeffersonMarch261795p1.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<p>"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1795, pg 1." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib008485 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
 
[[File:WytheToJeffersonMarch261795p1.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<p>"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1795, pg 1." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib008485 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
 
==Letter text==
 
==Letter text==

Revision as of 15:12, 14 August 2017

George Wythe asks Thomas Jefferson if he could think of a way that people would be able to have access to the copies of the acts of the general assembly that can only be found in Jefferson's collection without making it difficult for Jefferson or endangering the books to loss or damage.

"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1795, pg 1." Image from the Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.

Letter text

Page 1

G Wythe to T Jefferson

Can you contrive that people who want may obtain copies of the acts of general assembly, now to be found in your collection only, without trouble to yourself, and without danger of loss or detriment to the books? farewell.

20 of march, 1795.

Page 2

"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1795, pg 2." Image from the Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.

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