Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1821
From Joel Yancey
Lynchburg 18th June 1821
Dr Sir
Your 2 letters of 8 and 9th Inst. I received a few days past with two Dfts in favour of Bishop and myself on Capt Peyton, for which I thank you, as they will answer all the Debts that are now pressing on me I have enquired of Mr Miller the price of board and tuition, which is thirty dollars tuition fee, and one hundred dollars board for two sessions one half paid in advance
Joel Yancey
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 25 June 1821 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Thomas Eston Randolph, 10 Sept. 1822, on recto and verso; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson Monticello”; franked; postmarked Lynchburg, 22 June.
For TJ’s letter of the 9th inst., see TJ to Yancey, 8 June 1821, with Jefferson’s Note.
Index Entries
- Bishop, Jonathan; TJ pays search
- Miller, Samuel Thomas; instructor at New London Academy search
- New London, Va.; academy at search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- schools and colleges; New London Academy search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); letters from search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); TJ pays search