From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Whitney, 9 July 1804
To Thomas Whitney
Washington July 9. 04.
Sir
I inclose you a postnote on the bank of the US. at Philadelphia drawn by the branch bank here, in discharge of a bill for instruments to that amount furnished to Isaac Briggs partly for him & partly for myself. Accept my salutations.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MoSHi: Jefferson Papers); at foot of text: “Mr. Thomas Whitney”; endorsed by TJ. Notation in SJL: “50.”
The $50 that TJ sent to Whitney included a remittance of $27 for Isaac Briggs and $23 for “mathematical instruments” for TJ, probably the brass rule and scale that he asked Briggs to obtain for him in June (, 2:1130, 1131; Vol. 43:568).