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When [[Thomas Jefferson| Jefferson]] was trying to get [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 12 January 1796| all of the volumes out to Wythe]] before the wagon left for Varina, Virginia, he forgot to add a few laws.  He asks [[George Wythe| Wythe]] to add them to the end of the sixth volume.  Jefferson also includes information about what he wants the labels on the fifth and eighth volumes to say and the year the sixth volume is to go to.  He tells Wythe that he has written him a [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 January 1796| separate letter]] about preserving the laws.
[[File:JeffersonToWytheJanuary161796mid.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 January 1796." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib008589 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
==Letter text==
<blockquote>
Monticello Jan. 16. 96. 

[[Thomas Jefferson|T.J.]] to [[George Wythe|G. Wythe]]. 

I was so hurried to get ready my [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 January 1796 (Madison Draft with List of Virginia Laws)|collection of printed laws]] before the departure of the waggon, that I did the work imperfectly. I have since found the laws of 1702 May & Octob. which I should be glad to have added to the end of my 6th. volume. if you can procure a copy of those of 1773. I will pray you to add it to the end of the 5th. volume, and in both cases to make corresponding changes in the middle one of the three printed labels proposed on these volumes. indeed I would wish the middle label of the Vth. volume to be 

Fugitive&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fugitive&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
Sheets&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;& of the 8th to be&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sheets <br />
1734-1773&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1775-1783<br />

I chuse to bring for the VIth. volume to 1783 that it may terminate at the same period with the [[Collection of All Such Public Acts of the General Assembly, and Ordinances of the Conventions of Virginia|Chancellors revisal]].  

I write you a separate letter which perhaps may lead to the preservation of these laws. perhaps your friend mr Taylor, of whom I hear so many good and clever things, may think this business worthy his percentage.  Adieu affectionately. 
</blockquote>

==See also==
*''[[Collection of All Such Public Acts of the General Assembly, and Ordinances of the Conventions of Virginia|A Collection of All Such Public Acts of the General Assembly, and Ordinances of the Conventions of Virginia]]''
*[[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 16 January 1796]]
*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1796]]

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