To say how much I was affected at not seeing you the day I left Boston would indeed be impossible as I supposed it was owing to the Woman’s having said we were at dinner that made you leave the house so suddenly and I could not bear the idea of your being refused admittance—I thank you very much for your very affectionate Letters which gave me the greatest pleasure and arrived so as to make me...
2Martin Dawson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1818, with Jefferson’s Note, 11 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I hold your Specialty to Edmund Bacon for three hundred and twenty Seven Dollars $327.— Interest on the same from 28 th Sep t last to $ payment when convenient will Oblige Note by TJ on verso beneath endorsement: Nov. 11. 18. gave ord. on P. Gibson 330.D. being int. to