Letter to John Laval [manuscript], 1823 April 30.

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Letter to John Laval [manuscript], 1823 April 30.

Jefferson accepts an offer for two already published volumes in English of Bartolomé de las Casas with the subsequent volumes to be shipped later and refuses a copy of Alexander Wilson's "American ornithology" as too expensive. He hopes that a less expensive version without plates might be published.

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University of Virginia. Library

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