1Cesario Bias to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 16 th Inst to B. Peyton was yesterday received. The iron and tin, you wished sent up, has have been to day procured and forwarded to M r Leitch : the iron, (the longest I could get) is 5 ½ feet. And was got on a credit of 60 days, the tin was a very saleable article and could not be got on a credit of any definite period; the seller said he would settle it with M