Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1819
From Wilson Cary Nicholas
Richmond May 10th 1819
My Dear Sir
Mr Gibson has stated to me your wish to obtain a loan from the Bank of the U.S. (at this place) of an additional sum. From particular circumstances there is a great unwillingness at this moment to make loans for a longer period than sixty days. I have therefore advised him to let the application be made at the Farmers Bank, where my brother thinks it wou’d be obtained without any difficulty. The sum that you mentioned in your letter to Mr Gibson, I am sure wou’d be given at our office1 without any difficulty, but Mr G. seems to think you will want much more, from your flour and tobacco producing so much less than you expected, and that you wou’d want it for at least six months. If it is done at the farmers Bank, a town endorser will be necessary, in that event, my name is at your service. I hope you will pardon the liberty I have taken in expressing an opinion upon this subject, and be assured it has only been done from a wish to prevent the possibility of your being disappointed.
I am Dear Sir
W. C. Nicholas
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 13 May 1819 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Nicholas H. Lewis, 30 May 1819, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello Milton Va.”; stamp canceled; franked; postmarked Richmond, 10 May.
Nicholas’s brother Philip N. Nicholas was president of the Farmers’ Bank of Virginia in Richmond, 1819–37 (Richmond Enquirer, 12 Jan. 1819, 4 Apr. 1837).
1. Preceding three words interlined.
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; Richmond branch of (subentry to be split apart as time permits) search
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; from Poplar Forest search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); tobacco crop at search
- Nicholas, Philip Norborne; as president of Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); and TJ’s bank loans search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); letters from search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); flour from search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- tobacco; grown at Monticello search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search