The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks Author:Herbert Baxter Adams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: business at home will call me from this place as early as the last of May; but should you accede to my proposal, I will make a point of waiting till you return, ... more »for I should wish you to be present when the papers are packed, and take any memorandums of the same which you may think proper. Meantime I will have everything in readiness. In four or five weeks I expect to publish in the newspapers some account of the papers at Mount Vernon, with a development of my plan, and such remarks as will tend to prepare the public mind for a suitable reception of the work. As soon as I arrive in Boston I shall send out a prospectus, and put the business of collecting subscriptions into speedy operation. I am now negotiating with a competent person to traverse for this object all the Eastern States. Any arrangement which may hereafter be made with a publisher will be very much facilitated by having a good subscription list in hand. From the sale in England I do not expect much, but I intend myself to go out there, principally on this business, and ascertain what can be done. I am about making a trip to Monticello for a week, to consult certain parts of Mr. Jefferson's papers. I wish also to see Mr. Madison, who I think will be able and willing to lend me important aid. JARED SPARKS TO CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL. Mount Vkrnon, April 17, 1827. The copy of my letter to Judge Washington, which I have the honor to inclose, is so full on the point in question that I forbear to add more. I can hardly think you will hesitate as to the expediency of removing the papers in the manner proposed, or that you will consider the risk incurred as affording a serious objection, especially as the papers are nearly all copies. I really do not see how it is possible for me to go through the whole ofmy lab...« less