Enclosure: Order on United States Treasury, 18 April 1815
Enclosure
Order on United States Treasury
Apr. 18. 1815
J. B. | 4 870 | |||
Pay to | Wm S. | or order | 10,500 | D. in part of the sum of |
23,950 D. approprd by the act of Congr. for the purchase of | ||||
my library as advised in my lre to the Secy of the Treasury1 | ||||
of this days date, to wit Apr. 18. 1815. |
Th:J
Dft (DLC: TJ Papers, 203:36233); written entirely in TJ’s hand on a scrap; subjoined to Dft of Receipt for Sale of TJ’s Library, 23 Apr. 1815; on verso of Dft of TJ to Alexander J. Dallas, 18 Apr. 1815.
Individual versions of this order, not found, were enclosed in the above letter to John Barnes (j. b.) and in TJ’s letter of this date to William Short (wm s.).
1. Preceding six words interlined.
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