Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from John Strode, 4 May 1802

From John Strode

Culpeper 4 May 1802

Worthy Sir

If unhappily for me I am destined to absence as you pass my humble dwelling, pray let not that make any differance with you, or those that are with you. but honor it once more I humbly intreat You with Your presence for One Night. My Little Daughter and every One at the place will be all Obedience & respect   With all due regard

I am Sir Yr. most Obdt

John Strode

RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 6 May and so recorded in SJL.

As he often did on his trips to and from Monticello, TJ spent a NIGHT at Strode’s home, recording a payment of 75 cents for “Strode’s vales” on 7 May. He also recorded a payment to Strode during his return to Washington later that month (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1072–3; Vol. 33:315, 445).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from John Strode, 4 May 1802
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    Strode, John
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    4 May 1802

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John Strode, 4 May 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-37-02-0333. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 37, 4 March–30 June 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 416–417.]

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