John Hemmings to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1819
From John Hemmings
popler forest Nov. 2th 19
Sir
I am going on as you request with the blinds one paire at a time I am now got 20 single flights radey for hangin these is only aenugh to cloes 4 windours I hav pine enugh to do the hol of them. mr yancey sent 50 feet & 401 fe we found in the north portico. I dont thinke you evr get the locks & hinges for these starway doors ef you hav you did not lev them out hear. the sheet iron cheese & cracers is come saff & Put away we hav had no rain to make its way though the celing senc the first & seiont I am veary douptfull of the hinges anywear in a good Perpurs you mad mentaion of hangin or waiting 2 of Them toghether the windours veary so much as to wedth from ¼ to ¾.I2 ef these put on 1 sirfest tha will be trubblesom to git right ef tha ant made with much corecness & at the best it will be a pussel nase says that he is de Prived of garding seed by the hale wishes you to be hented of them i hav spent a grat deel of Dissatisfaction by you not being able to return but i hop you will soon get the better of it
John hemings your Servents
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 13 Nov. 1819 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Bernard Peyton, 19 Apr. 1822, on verso; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson monticello”; franked; postmarked Lynchburg, 5 Nov.
1. Reworked from “45.”
2. Reworked from “3¼ to 3¾.I.”
Index Entries
- building materials; pine search
- cheese; sent to Poplar Forest search
- crackers search
- food; cheese search
- food; crackers search
- Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); as woodworker search
- Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); letters from search
- household articles; blinds search
- household articles; hinges search
- household articles; locks search
- iron; sheet search
- locks; door search
- Nace (TJ’s slave; b.1773); as gardener search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); carpentry at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); doors at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); groceries for search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); windows at search
- seeds; for Poplar Forest garden search
- slaves; as carpenters search
- slaves; as gardeners search
- slaves; letters from search
- weather; hail search
- weather; rain search