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David Isaacs to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1814

From David Isaacs

May 1 1814

Sir

The Boy just arrived and i hasten to forward you Six of the best they Brot the trip has been a long one, and the Fish cost 1/6 a peice on Shore I cant Sell them for less than 3/—to Save myself—I hope they will meet your approbation

Your &c

D Isaacs

RC (MHi); dateline beneath signature; at foot of text: “Thos Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as a letter of May 1814.

TJ recorded paying Isaacs $3 on this date for six shad (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1299).

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David Isaacs to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1814
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1 May 1814

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“David Isaacs to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0245. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 7, 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 332–333.]

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