Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 19 September 1816
To David Gelston
Monticello Sep. 19. 16.
Dear Sir
I wrote yesterday morning in answer to yours of Aug. 31. and in the evening recieved the Invoice you requested, which I now inclose with mr Warden’s letters & other papers. I will thank you for the return of these when they shall have answered your purpose. as I presume the usual apprehensions from Equinoctial gales are not of many days, I will request you to forward the books to Richmond as usual as soon as you think it safe; and the rather that they may get up our river before winter sets in. if you will have the goodness to drop me a note of the amount of expences attending these, & the cases of wines, they shall be immediately remitted. I salute you with great esteem & respect
Th: Jefferson
RC (ViU: TJP); addressed: “David Gelston esquire New York”; franked; postmarked Milton, 20 Sept.; endorsement by Gelston reads, in part, “Books.” PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Peyton Randolph to TJ, 16 July 1816; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures: (1) David Bailie Warden to TJ, 12 July 1816, and enclosure. (2) Warden to TJ, 14 July 1816, and enclosures.
our river: the Rivanna River.
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- boats; transfer goods to and from Richmond search
- Gelston, David; and books for TJ search
- Gelston, David; and wine for TJ search
- Gelston, David; letters to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
- Richmond, Va.; boats transfer goods to and from search
- Rivanna River; navigation of search
- Warden, David Bailie; and books for TJ search
- weather; wind search
- wine; sent to TJ search