Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 22 November 1, 1784 - November 6, 1785
Elbridge Gerry to Timothy Pickering
Dear Sir, New York 15th Octr 1785
I am favoured with yours of the 11th, & have no Objection to your receiving the principal of my Debt, being £397.0.11/2,(1) provided I am secure for Costs in determining the Question of Interest-—;but should not this Stipulation be made previously to your receiving the Money, & be inserted in the Receipt for it?
I am in Want of the following Books from Messr Jackson & Dunn, & wish to know whether I must send the others to Phila., or deliver them to any Friend of those Gentlemen here. The Books wanted are Vattel’s Law of Nations.
(2) Burlamaqui’s principles of natural & political Law 8 vo.
(3) Burlamaqui’s Law of Nations(4) if the Reputation of it, is equal to his other works. Government of the Germanic Body, 8 vo. Grotius on War & peace 8 vo.
(5) if it is a Translation of his Whole Work de Jure Belli & Pacis. St Evremond in French is not what I want.(6)
they had English copy. WTF
2 Two London editions of Emmerich de Vattel’s The Law of Nations were in circulation at this time: a 1759—;60 edition in 2 vols., and a 1760 edition in one.