Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 12 March 1820
To John Vaughan
Monticello Mar. 12. 20.
Dear Sir
Two days after1 mine of the 8th your’s of the 3d came to hand. that will have informed you of every thing relative to Dr Cooper, and particularly that we should be ready to pay him the 1500.D. the 1st of May, I herein committed a mistake, for I should have said 750.D. in his letter of Oct. 25. 19. he proposed himself to recieve 750.D. the 1st of May 1820. and 750.D. the 1st of Jan. 1821. however as to the first sum for which you inclosed me the order we shall be enabled to pay it the 1st or 2d week of April, perhaps a part of it sooner, in the course of this month. I have to thank you for mr Tilghman’s agricultural orations, and all your other kindnesses and shall have to trouble you ere long with my annual application to Paris & Leghorn. affectionately Your’s
Th: Jefferson
RC (Robert Hyatt, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1947; photocopy in ViU: TJP); addressed: “John Vaughan esq. Philadelphia”; franked; postmarked Charlottesville, 14 Mar.; endorsed by Vaughan as received 20 Mar. 1820 and answered two days later, with Vaughan’s further notation that it concerned “fund for T— Coopers Dft.” PoC (DLC); on verso of reused address cover of Wilson Cary Nicholas to TJ, 20 May 1819; edge trimmed; endorsed by TJ.
1. Manuscript: “after after.”
Index Entries
- An Address delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture; at its anniversary meeting, January 18, 1820 (W. Tilghman) search
- Cooper, Thomas; University of Virginia professorship proposed for search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; receives works search
- Tilghman, William; An Address delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture; at its anniversary meeting, January 18, 1820 search
- Vaughan, John; and T. Cooper search
- Vaughan, John; handles financial transactions search
- Vaughan, John; letters to search
- Vaughan, John; sends works to TJ search
- Virginia, University of; Faculty and Curriculum; faculty compensation search
- Virginia, University of; Faculty and Curriculum; T. Cooper as proposed professor search