Thomas Jefferson to Julius B. Dandridge, 3 November 1819
To Julius B. Dandridge
Monticello Nov.1 3. 19
Sir
My slow recovery at first, and afterwards the distance of Colo Nicholas’s residence from mine, have retarded the transmission of the inclosed papers uneasily to me.
I now forward a bond with the amendment of terms desired in your letter, and a rough draught of the deed of trust with the changes also recommended. these will be readily distinguished by their incorporation into the original deed on which they are written. if they are deemed satisfactory, or if you will make them so, and be so good as to return me the rough draught I will execute it in that form, have it recorded and send you a certificate of the record as soon as it can be obtained.
I inclosed to mr Nicholas your letters of Oct. 4. & 21. to apprise him of the interest due to Sep. 15. he returned me the inclosed note of 100.D. for discount which my grandson and myself, have endorsed. Colo Nicholas had given me the most satisfactory assurances that I shall never have to advance even the interest on this debt. I am unwilling therefore to commence the precedent of paying it, and consequently anxious that this note shall be discounted as he solemnly assures me he will have certain funds to discharge it before it becomes due. should he not do it, I will myself, when at maturity. Accept the assurance of my esteem & respect
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of John Rhea to TJ, 9 Mar. 1819; at foot of text: “Mr J. B. Dandridge”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures: (1) Bond of Wilson Cary Nicholas, TJ, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph to the Second Bank of the United States, 15 Sept. 1819, document 2 in a group of documents on Jefferson’s Mortgage of Bedford County Land, 15 Sept. 1819. (2) Revised MS, not found, of TJ’s Deed of Trust of Bedford County Land to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 15 Sept. 1819, document 3 in same group of documents. A separate Dft, not found, of TJ’s Deed of Trust of Bedford County Land to Andrew Stevenson and Bernard Peyton, 15 Sept. 1819, document 4 in same group of documents, prepared before the addition of Stevenson’s name, was also enclosed. Enclosed note by Wilson Cary Nicholas not found.
The exchange of letters between TJ and Nicholas, in which TJ enclosed your letters and received back Nicholas’s note for discount, are not recorded in SJL and have not been found. my grandson: Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
1. Reworked from “Oct.”
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search
- Bedford County, Va.; deeds of trust for land in search
- Dandridge, Julius Burbridge; as cashier of Bank of U.S. search
- Dandridge, Julius Burbridge; letters to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bond with W. C. Nicholas and T. J. Randolph search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; conveys land in trust to cover bond search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; endorses notes for W. C. Nicholas search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; illness of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Bond of Wilson Cary Nicholas, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph to the Second Bank of the United States search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Deed of Trust of Bedford County Land to Andrew Stevenson and Bernard Peyton search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Deed of Trust of Bedford County Land to Thomas Jefferson Randolph search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); bond with TJ and T. J. Randolph search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); TJ endorses notes for search
- Peyton, Bernard; TJ deeds Bedford Co. land to search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search
- Stevenson, Andrew; TJ deeds Bedford Co. land to search