Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 16 September 1820
To Alexander Garrett
Poplar Forest. Sep. 16. 20.
Dear Sir
Your letter of the 9th did not come to hand until yesterday (Friday) and the Charlottesville mail had left Lynchburg the evening before. as the next mail will not reach you until the evening of Saturday next, and I shall be at home to dinner the next day I have thought it safer to carry your blank myself than to trust it by mail. it will be equally ready for the Richmond mail of Tuesday.
The exact sums due on each of the 3 past instalments, & which will be due on the 4th will enter into the body of the report we have to make. as time will press I wish I could find your & the Proctor’s accounts at Monticello on my arrival there. affectionately yours
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Wilson Cary Nicholas to TJ, 17 Aug. 1819; at foot of text: “Mr Garrett”; mistakenly endorsed by TJ as a letter of 13 Sept. 1820, but correctly recorded in SJL.
For the report and accounts, see note to preceding document.
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- Charlottesville, Va.; mail service to search
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- Garrett, Alexander; letters to search
- Literary Fund; University of Virginia Board of Visitors reports to search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ returns from search
- Richmond, Va.; mail service to search
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- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; Alexander Garrett’s Account with the University of Virginia search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; Arthur S. Brockenbrough’s Statement of Expenditures by the University of Virginia search
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