Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 August 1818
To Patrick Gibson
Rockfish gap Aug. 1. 18.
Dear Sir
I recieved1 your letter of July 27. just as I was setting out for this place and my company waiting for me. I wrote therefore the hasty thoughts of the 1st moment. but after consideration on the road I wrote back to my grandson to begin the grinding my wheat instantly and sending it down as soon as ground. he can get down before the first curtailment as much as will supply that and will go on to provide immediately against the successive ones: and you may rest assured that you shall be exposed to no inconvenience by the paper you have been so kind as to endorse for me. under this assurance I hope your mind will be at rest, and I salute you with great friendship and respect.
Th: Jefferson
SC (MHi); at foot of text: “Mr Gibson”; endorsed by TJ.
A missing letter from TJ to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph of 30 July 1818 is recorded in SJL, as are undated letters, not found, from Randolph to TJ received 31 July and 20 Sept. 1818.
1. Manuscript: “recived.”
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); wheat crop at search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letters from accounted for search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letters to accounted for search
- Virginia, University of; Establishment; commissioners’ meeting at Rockfish Gap search
- wheat; at Monticello search