Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 7 January 1815
To Patrick Gibson
Monticello Jan. 7. 14. [15]
Dear Sir
On the 31st Ult. I asked the favor of you to inclose me by mail 100.D. which I presume to be now on the way. in the mean time another call has come on me which obliges me to draw on you in favor of my grandson Th: J. Randolph for 120.D. I shall have one more of about the same amount in the course of this month which will I believe close my wants until the spring by which time my flour & tobo may be down, and perhaps disposed of. before that time I hope we may hear that the British do not think their prospect of obtaining a slice of the province of Maine worth the continuance of the war, for that I believe is the only article which at present both parties have not agreed to. Accept the assurance of my great esteem & respect.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (ViU: TJP); on verso of reused address cover of Alexander J. Dallas to TJ, 14 Dec. 1814; misdated; at foot of text: “Mr Gibson”; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 7 Jan. 1815 and so recorded in SJL.
On the following day Thomas Jefferson randolph repaid TJ “for the sd draught 120.D.” (, 2:1306).
SJL records a missing letter from TJ to Gibson of 8 Jan. 1815, which presumably covered a signed note authorizing the renewal of his loan at the Bank of Virginia (see Gibson to TJ, 3 Jan. 1815).
Index Entries
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- currency; sent to TJ search
- flour; transported to Richmond search
- Ghent; peace negotiations at search
- Gibson, Patrick; and currency for TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s bank note from Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters to search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters to accounted for search
- Gibson, Patrick; payments made for TJ search
- Great Britain; peace with search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; payments to T. J. Randolph search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Family & Friends; relations with grandchildren search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Opinions on; peace with Great Britain search
- Maine; British claims to portion of search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); pays TJ search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); TJ’s payments to search
- Richmond, Va.; flour shipped to search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco shipped to search
- tobacco; transported to Richmond search
- War of1812; and peace negotiations search