From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 22 July 1804

To George Jefferson

Washington July 22. 04.

Dear Sir

I leave this place for Monticello tomorrow. I have desired mr Barnes to remit you 700. D. which he will recieve about the 4th. or 6th of Aug. and will send you in bills of the bank US. here by the 8th. or 9th. I have consequently drawn on you in favor of Christopher Smith for 433⅓ D. payable Aug. 10. and shall further draw in favor of Joseph Brand for 250. D. Accept my affectionate salutations.

Th: Jefferson

PoC (MHi); at foot of text: “Mr George Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ.

leave this place: TJ left Washington on 23 July and arrived at Monticello on the 27th. His travel expenses totaled $21.725 (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1133-4).

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Title: From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 22 July 1804
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Jefferson, George
Date: 22 July 1804

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Cite as: “From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 22 July 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-44-02-0124. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 44, 1 July to 10 November 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 131.]

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