1Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1820 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Poplar Forest , 22 Nov. 1820 . SJL entry reads “ Ned & Wormly . garden, lawn & grove. roads.” Letter not found.]
2Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
the pork delivered mr Minor according to the entry in my book is was 10. hogs weighing 1067 ℔ @ 8.50 D = 90.69½ D RC ( ViU: TJP ); written on a small scrap; dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in SJL . TJ made this pork sale in December 1818 to Samuel Overton Minor , from whom he received $70 through
3Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 11 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4 th could not leave Charlottesville till the 8 th and was recieved here on the 9 th . our mail starts for Charlottesville tomorrow & will arrive there on Saturday at 6. P.M. I am glad you have given the assistance of a hand to each cooper’s shop, and wish it to be continued, and even more help to be given if necessary, for I look to the offal of the mill as our only...
4Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now anxious for the carpenters to come on as soon as they shall have done the jobs mentioned in my letter to mr Meeks . we have a horse which has been raised here 3. years old this month, of tolerable figure, great size & promising qualities for a riding horse. I am putting him into the hands of a neighbor to learn him to pace & shall take him down with me when I return. I would therefore...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 9 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d in the last month your letter of Aug. 22. and begin it’s answer by remitting the balance of what I owe you. this should have been sooner done, but we have been unusually late in getting our produce to market this year. the balance which the order on mr Terril left me on the 1 st of Sep. 23. still in your debt was 22. D 36 and calculating back interest, and forward from that date, to...
6Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, [15 November 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
I have made it a point thro’ life never to recieve or pay compound interest nor any thing more than what is legal. nor do I think compound interest just, because had the law intended to permit it, it would have been fixed at 3. per cent or 3 ½ which is as much as men in general make of their money in the ordinary & honest vocations of life. more may be made, by possibility, at the gaming table...
7Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find I shall be able to get from here from Saturday this day fortnight to Saturday this three weeks. it is necessary therefore that Cretia ’s Johnny should set off with the cart on Thursday morning the 3 d of December
8From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 18 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 26. came to my hands May 8. and I was gl ad to learn that after all your sufferings on the road from rain & sickness, you had got safely at length, into a satisfactory position. we had here, from the time of your departure the finest weather possible, and were every day remarking how lucky you were in your weather. our family is all well and has been generally so, except...
9Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you two draughts on mr Gibson , the one in favor of mr Woods for 174.70 and the other in favor of yourself for 63.85 this last is to enable you to pay 48.85 to mr Maupin and 15.D. to mr Stout . the two former sums include interest from last court. I am afraid it may not be convenient to mr Lietch to advance money for these draughts, and that it is merely an accomodation to me that he...
10Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 12 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Yancey & myself conclude it will be best to send the pork of this place to Monticello before Christmas . hoping you will recieve this letter on Sunday the 17 th I wish you to send off the waggon the next mornin g Monday 18
11Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I find that the cart need not leave Monticello till Thursday the 11 th of December, on the morning of which I wish it to be dispatched. I send Bedford Billy down to be put to work with the Coopers under Barnaby , and Thrimston to leave Barnaby and work with the carpenters. I hope you will keep them all to their duty. Billy is found too ungovernable for Johnny Hemings
12Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 29 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 21 st came to hand yesterday . you have done right in having the safety gate finished, and at any moment when the convenience of the great mill shall admit, it should be laid down, as we know not when a fresh may put us into danger. should mr Meeks be gone, get mr Gilmore to direct it, and indeed I would at any rate rather have it done under his direction. I must get you to look...