Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 6 September 1820, with Jefferson’s Note
To Bernard Peyton, with Jefferson’s Note
Monticello Sep. 6. 20.
Dear Sir
I set off for Poplar forest tomorrow to be back on the 24th and think it safe to send you my notes for the farmers and US. banks, lest they should be wanting. I shall recieve in Bedford a sum of money which will enable me to remit you the discounts and also the curtailment of 500.D. which you were so kind as to give me timely notice of. besides this I leave directions if a rain should sufficiently raise our river to send off a sufficiency of flour as a double resource. I do not certainly know the day of renewal, but I believe it is in October. I salute you with great friendship and respect.
Th: Jefferson
[Note by TJ at foot of text:]
P.S. abt Coffee’s box
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of George Evans to TJ, 29 Mar. 1820; adjacent to signature: “Capt Bernard Peyton”; endorsed by TJ. Recorded in SJL with additional notation: “notes of renewal.” Enclosures not found.
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Coffee, William John; and box of paintings search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; shipment of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- paintings; owned by W. J. Coffee search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Peyton, Bernard; and W. J. Coffee’s paintings search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ plans visits to search
- Rivanna River; water level of search
- weather; effect on shipping search
- weather; rain search