Thomas Jefferson to James L. Jefferson, 18 February 1816
To James L. Jefferson
Monticello Feb. 18. 16.
Dear Lilburne
My sister Marks tells me you are in want of clothes and other necessaries, and are living at the tavern at the ferry until the question is decided about my brother’s will. I wish you would come and stay with us. I have proposed this on one or two former occasions, and would now press it. you shall employ your time as you please, and as usefully to yourself as you please, in which, and in any thing else I can I will render you my best services. but come particularly and let me have you furnished at Charlottesville with all proper and comfortable clothing. in the hope of seeing you I remain affectionately [your]s.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MoSHi: TJC-BC); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; mutilated at seal; at foot of text: “Mr Lilburne Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ.
A missing letter of 30 Jan. 1816 from TJ to his sister Anne Scott Marks is recorded in SJL.
Although Jefferson never accepted TJ’s repeated invitations to live at Monticello, TJ’s account books show that he gave his nephew ten dollars in April 1816 and bought him a pair of shoes the following year (, 2:1322, 1330).
Index Entries
- Jefferson, James Lilburne (TJ’s nephew; Randolph Jefferson’s son); and will of R. Jefferson search
- Jefferson, James Lilburne (TJ’s nephew; Randolph Jefferson’s son); letter to search
- Jefferson, James Lilburne (TJ’s nephew; Randolph Jefferson’s son); TJ invites to live at Monticello search
- Jefferson, James Lilburne (TJ’s nephew; Randolph Jefferson’s son); TJ provides support for search
- Jefferson, Randolph (TJ’s brother); will of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; and R. Jefferson’s will search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Family & Friends; relations with A. S. Marks search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Family & Friends; relations with J. L. Jefferson search
- Marks, Anne Scott Jefferson (TJ’s sister; Hastings Marks’s wife); and J. L. Jefferson search
- Marks, Anne Scott Jefferson (TJ’s sister; Hastings Marks’s wife); letters to accounted for search