Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1817
From Patrick Gibson
Richmond 10th Novr 1817—
Sir
On the 29th Ulto1 I sold your 43 bls. flour to E. Williams and on the 5th insta the remg 7 bls to Josh A. Weed at 8¼$ Cash, since then accounts were received of a rise in England which gave a stir to our market, and enabled me to sell 50 bls: (of your 120) which came down on Saturday at 8¾ Cash, at which price I had engaged the whole, provided it had come down in time, but unfortunately it has not yet arrived, and the article has again declined—Your favors of the 30th Octr & 3d Inst have been duly received, with a note for renewal in the US Bank. I had in my possession a blank with which I renewed yours in the V. Bk on the 10th ulto. I shall in future send you both notes at once
Patrick Gibson
RC (ViU: TJP-ER); between dateline and salutation: “Thomas Jefferson Esqre”; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Nov. 1817 and so recorded in SJL.
v. bk: the Bank of Virginia.
1. Reworked from “Inst.”
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; at Richmond search
- flour; price of search
- flour; sale of search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of the United States search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters from search
- Great Britain; prices in search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of the United States search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- Weed, Joseph A.; buys TJ’s flour search
- Williams, Edward; buys TJ’s flour search