From Thomas Jefferson to John Condit, 14 April 1804
To John Condit
Monticello Apr. 14. 04
Sir
Being here for about a fortnight longer, I recieved at this place yesterday your favor of the 2d. inst. and immediately wrote to Washington to have the cyder recieved & bottled. you have not mentioned the price. be so good as to do it, & the money shall be immediately remitted, with many thanks for your kind attention to this matter.
I have just recieved information that Capt. Preble has taken a Tripolitan vessel with 70. men, and hope when the 4. frigates ordered there as a reinforcement shall get to the place, they will render us a good account of our captives. Accept my respectful salutations & esteem.
Th: Jefferson
PrC (DLC); at foot of text: “Dr. Condit”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.
wrote to washington: TJ to John Barnes, 14 Apr. (not found, but see Barnes to TJ, 20 Apr.).
price: TJ paid $100.685 for eight barrels of New Jersey cider (, 2:1152).
TJ received Joseph Barnes’s letter of 4 Feb., which contained a report of the capture of a tripolitan vessel, on 13 Apr. (Vol. 42:396, 397n).
The four frigates were the President, the Congress, the Constellation, and the Essex. A fifth frigate, the John Adams, was being prepared for use as a transport (, 4:88, 114-15; TJ to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 20 Mch.; Madison to TJ, 19 Apr.).