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To Thomas Jefferson from Chandler Price, 14 December 1804

From Chandler Price

Philade. Decemr 14. 1804

Sir

Agreeable to your request I have this day shipped the Butt of Wine on board the Schooner Caroline, Capn. Dickey, to Address of Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson Merchants Richmond to whom I mention it is your desire They will forward it to Monticello, but doubt not your orders will be with Them in time

I have also Shipped on board the Sloop Sally Captn Hand—bound to George Town, the smaller Cask & united it in the Bill loading with one for James Madison Esquire to be delivered to order, and have requested the favor of Mr Madison to communicate the same to you

I have had them put into Cases & having received & shipped them in good order, trust they will be delivered equally so

Mr. Ysnardi’s Bill on you for the Butt has not come under my notice. if it should I will give you timely notice thereof as I shall also do of the Expences & Duties as soon as the same shall be ascertained

I have the Honor to be very respectfully Sir Your Most Obed & Most Hhble Serv

Chand: Price

RC (MHi); at head of text: “The Honorable Thomas Jefferson Esquire President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 16 Dec. and so recorded in SJL.

Price enclosed a Bill of lading for “Two Casks Sherry Wine in Cases” in a letter of this day to Madison. The shipping charge was $1.50 (Madison, Papers description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962- , 41 vols.; Sec. of State Ser., 1986- , 11 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984- , 10 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009- , 3 vols. description ends , Sec. of State Ser., 8:378).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Chandler Price, 14 December 1804
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    14 December 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Chandler Price, 14 December 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0189. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, pp. 172–173.]

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