Dear sir | Georgetown August 10th 1818 |
At the request of Mr Jacob Gideon Jr: printer of Washington I have Sent you a copy of a new Edition of The Federalist which he has just printed & published; I have bound it and we beg that you will accept the book as a mark of the esteem we have for your public & private character
Joseph Milligan;
for Jacob Gideon Jr
& for himself
MHi: Adams Papers.