James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1817

From James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson)

16 Decr 1817

Sir

I send you by mr Gilmore 5 Boxes & four Bales or Baskets which have just been recd from Norfolk which I wish safe to hand—the Bale of Cotton you wrote for some time ago, was not then nor is not now to be obtained here—Except some of very inferior quality which I suppose will not answer you—

very respectfully Yr obt servt

P Gibson

⅌ J Ligon

RC (ViU: TJP-ER); entirely in Ligon’s hand; dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello by M Gilmore”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Gibson & Jefferson received 5 Jan. 1818 from Richmond and so recorded in SJL.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1817
Authors: Gibson, Patrick
Ligon, James
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 16 December 1817

Reference

Cite as: “James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-12-02-0207. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 12, 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, p. 260.]