Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Eston Randolph, 12 September 1821
To Thomas Eston Randolph
Monto Sep. 12. 21.
Dear Sir
I have some debts here which press very sorely on me;1 for the paymt of which my only resource is my cash balance at ye mill. and my return to Bedford moreover depending on their payment I am obliged to trouble you with the subject. mr C. Peyton to whom I have abt 600.D to pay wrote me 2. days ago that you would accept my ord. in his favor which would suit him. I did not chuse however to give it without knowing that it would suit you also. I have therefore not yet answered him definitively. ever & affly your’s
Th:J.
Dft (MHi); at foot of text: “Thos E. Randolph esq.”; subjoined to unsent RC of TJ to Randolph, 16 Aug. 1821; endorsed by TJ.
A missing letter of 10 Sept. 1821 from Randolph to TJ is recorded in SJL as received 15 Sept. 1821 from Ashton.
1. Remainder of sentence interlined.
Index Entries
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with C. Peyton search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with T. E. Randolph search
- Peyton, Craven; account with TJ search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ plans visits to search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); account with TJ search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); and Shadwell mills search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); letters from accounted for search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); letters to search
- Shadwell mills; and T. E. Randolph search