<!DOCTYPE TEI.2 system 'teilite.dtd'[ <!NOTATION jpg SYSTEM "JPEG"> <!ENTITY Jef1787a SYSTEM "Jef1787a.jpg" NDATA jpg> <!ENTITY Jef1787b SYSTEM "Jef1787b.jpg" NDATA jpg> <!ENTITY % ISOlat1 system "ISOlat1"> %ISOlat1; <!ENTITY % ISOlat2 system "ISOlat2"> %ISOlat2; <!ENTITY % ISOnum system "ISOnum"> %ISOnum; <!ENTITY % ISOpub system "ISOpub"> %ISOpub; <!ENTITY % ISOtech system "ISOtech"> %ISOtech; ]> <TEI.2> <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Letter to John Churchman, August 8, 1787 [a machine-readable transcription] </title> <author>Jefferson, Thomas </author> <respStmt> <resp>Creation of machine-readable version: </resp> <name>Folger seminar 1997 </name> <resp>Creation of digital images: </resp> <name>University of Virginia Library </name> <resp>Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: </resp> <name>Folger seminar 1997 </name> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <extent>ca. 5 kilobytes </extent> <publicationStmt> <publisher>University of Virginia Library. </publisher> <pubPlace>Charlottesville, Virginia </pubPlace> <idno>Modern English, Jef1787 </idno> <availability> <p>Publicly-accessible. © Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 1997.</p> <p n=public>URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modengJ.browse.html </p> </availability> <date>1997 </date> </publicationStmt> <seriesStmt> <p> </p> </seriesStmt> <notesStmt> <note>Images of the manuscript have been included. </note> </notesStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblFull> <titleStmt> <title>Letter to John Churchman, August 8, 1787 </title> <author>Thomas Jefferson </author> <respStmt> <resp> </resp> <name> </name> </respStmt> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> </p> </editionStmt> <extent> </extent> <publicationStmt> <publisher> </publisher> <pubPlace> </pubPlace> <date> </date> <idno>Manuscript copy consulted: UVa Library MSS 11318 </idno> </publicationStmt> <seriesStmt> <p> </p> </seriesStmt> <notesStmt> <note> </note> </notesStmt> </biblFull> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <encodingDesc> <projectDesc> <p>Prepared for the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. </p> </projectDesc> <editorialDecl> <p>The lineation of the manuscript has been maintained and all end-of-line hyphens have been preserved. </p> <p>The images exist as archived TIFF images, one or more JPEG versions for general use, and thumbnail GIFs. </p> <p>Some keywords in the header are a local Electronic Text Center scheme to aid in establishing analytical groupings. </p> </editorialDecl> <refsDecl> <p> </p> </refsDecl> <classDecl> <taxonomy> <bibl> <title>Library of Congress Subject Headings </title> </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <creation> <date>1787 </date> </creation> <langUsage> <language id="en">English </language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords> <term>Manuscript letter ; non-fiction ; prose ; masculine </term> </keywords> <keywords> <term>LCSH </term> </keywords> <keywords> <term type="format">24-bit color; 400 dpi </term> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>November 1997 </date> <respStmt> <resp>corrector </resp> <name>Christine Ruotolo, Electronic Text Center </name> </respStmt> <item>Fixed transcription and tagging errors. </item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id=Jef1787> <body> <div0 type="letter"> <head></head> <opener> <seg><figure entity="Jef1787a"></figure></seg> <dateLine>Paris <date n=1787-08-08>Aug. 8. 1787.</date></dateLine> <lb> <salute>Sir</salute> </opener> <p>I have duly received your favor of <date n="1787-06-06">June 6.</date> and immediately <lb> communicated <orig reg="its">it's</orig> contents to a member of the Academy. <orig reg="He">he</orig> told me <lb> they had received the other copy of your memorial which you mention <lb> to have sent <abbr expan="through">thro'</abbr> another channel, that your ideas were not <orig reg="conveyed">con- <lb> -veyed</orig> so explicitly as to enable them to decide finally <unclear>on their merit,</unclear> <lb> but that they had made an entry in their journals to <unclear>preserve</unclear><lb> you the claim to the original idea. <orig reg="As">as</orig> far as we can conjecture it<lb> here, we imagine you make a table of Variations of the needle for all the <lb> different meridians whatever. <orig reg="To">to</orig> apply this table to use in the <orig reg="voyage">voiage</orig> <lb> between America & Europe, suppose the variation to increase a degree<lb> in every 160 miles. <orig reg="Two">two</orig> difficulties occur. 1. <orig reg="A">a</orig> ready & accurate method of <lb> finding the variation of the place. 2. <orig reg="An">an</orig> instrument so perfect as that <lb> (<abbr expan="though">tho'</abbr> the degree on it shall represent 160 miles) it shall give the parts <lb> of the degree so minutely as to answer the purposes of the navigator. <lb> <orig reg="The">the</orig> variation of the needle at Paris actually is 20°W. I make no <lb> doubt but you have provided against the doubts entertained here, <lb> and I shall be happy that our country may have the <orig reg="honor">honour</orig> of <lb> furnishing the old world what it has so long sought in vain. </p> <closer> <salute> I am with much respect Sir<lb> your most obedient humble <abbr expan="servant">servt</abbr>. </salute> <signed><abbr expan="Thomas">Th:</abbr> Jefferson</signed> <seg type="recipient">Mr. John Churchman Philadelphia.</seg> </closer> </div0> </body> <back> <div type="envelope"> <p><figure entity="Jef1787b"></figure></p> <p>Th. 4-16</p> <p>Mr. John Churchman<lb> Philadelphia</p> <p>Thomas Jefferson</p> </div> </back> </text> </TEI.2>