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When the sale of Tobacco was made to pay Mr. Lyle &c, 14 Hhds had arrived, of which I thought I had informed you; the 4 which have since arrived, making altogether 18 Hhds. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I inclose your last quarterly account from which there appears to be a balance due G. & J. of $:584.. 53/100 . Your Tobacco (14 hhds) I have after much difficulty disposed of to Pickett Pollard & Johnston at 6.¼$—1000$ Cash, & the balance in 10 days.—The highest offer I had except from them was only 36/6. The thousand dollars shall be paid to Mr. Lyle in the course of the day, or tomorrow. Be...
I inclose agreeably to your direction 280$, in Virginia bank notes. The bolting Cloths are delivered to the Stage driver. Your other commissions shall be attended to. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I am astonished that the shipwreck’d articles have not yet arrived; as the person who took charge of them, promised soon after the date of my last to you on the subject, to forward them as soon as possible to Norfolk, where orders were lodged for them to be sent up by the first opportunity. I suppose you may calculate upon receiving those articles which will not sustain injury by salt water;...
You will receive inclosed your last quarterly account, from which you will find there is a balance due you of £224–7–7. The things for which the Waggoner omitted to call, I am sorry to inform you, are not yet forwarded. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson esquire Washington”; franked and postmarked; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Oct. and so recorded in...
I have duly received your favor of the 7th. inclosing 425$:—   Colo. Monroe is now in Albemarle. so soon as he returns, he shall be paid as you direct. The two boxes from Alexandria have not yet arrived. I am Dear Sir Yr. Mt. humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
G. Jefferson sends the box of hinges &c by the Stage agreeably to Mr. J’s direction. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Your favor of the 5th having been misplaced at the post office, I did not receive it in time to make enquiry with respect to the value of Mr. Mazzie’s property.—I am perfectly willing to act under the power of attorney which you propose forwarding. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. Will it not be best for your winters supply of Coal to be forwarded now, whilst vessels are to be procured...
I inclose you a bill of loading for 1500 bushels of Coal, which Heth & N. contrary to their usual custom consented to have picked. The different dfts. of which you advise us have appeared, together with one in favor of Wm Burwell dated the 13th. of July for $:400—,of which we have never been advised. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Not having received any instruction from you upon the subject of the inclosed, I shall decline making any reply to Mr. Mifflin, but of course leave it to you to direct in what manner his account (if correct) shall be paid. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I am duly favor’d with yours of the 13th. inclosing two notes of your own to G. & J. at 60 days from the 4th. of August & 8th. of Septr. next, each for 1000$—to be negociated at the Bank of Virginia. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Your note of 1000$ was this day discounted. Yr. Very humble Servt., MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I yesterday received your favor of the 5th. inclosing the first halves of 1200$ in B. Notes. I some days since wrote Mr. Barnes that Mr. Short would have occasion here for the money of his now in my hands. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 10 Oct. and so recorded in SJL .
I shall send you to day by Mr. Randolph’s Ben, two bbls of Cider which were brought to me by a Mr. Richard Cocke, who informed me he had procured it for you by direction of Colo. Newton. he said he had bought three bbls, but that one had leaked out. Your groceries &c have not yet arrived. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
You will receive your account inclosed, made out to the 31th ultimo. balance in favor of G. & J. $: 94.71. I am Dear Sir Yr. Mt. humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Judge Tucker having left this for Williamsburg on Monday last, I shall forward your letter to him by the present mail. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I have duly received your favor of the 7th. inclosing 400$—which sum is at your credit with G & J I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I have now only to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 6th. inclosing the second halves of the 1200$, the first of which came to hand by last post. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 12 Oct. and so recorded in SJL .
I inclose your last quarterly account balanced by $111.77 in favor of G & J I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I shall forward by Mr. Richard S. Hackley , who goes on in tomorrows stage, our revised code of laws as requested in your favor of the 20th. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ; entered in SJL as received 31 Dec. For Richard S. hackley , see Vol. 38:418-19 .
I have duly received your favor of the 8th inclosing a Treasury draft on the Collector of this place for $550.— The dumb fish from Mr. Crowninshield were received & forwarded to Monticello nearly a month ago.—I have to day received of Majr. Duval Mr. Wythe’s profile, which I will forward by the first safe opportunity. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Having sold the 2 Hhds of stem’d Tobacco, I now inclose you an acct of the sales, together with your acct current for the last quarter: from which last you will observe, there is a balance in your favor of $:251.9, which sum you will likewise find inclosed, in a check of our Cashier, on the Bank of Alexandria. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
The two boxes of paste (as I conclude they are) shipped from Philadelphia so long ago as the 24th. of Decr last—were not received until yesterday. I am not acquainted with the cause of this long delay, not having yet seen the Captain. Mr. G. informs me that he inclosed you a check on the bank of Columbia, for $5872.84 on the 27th ultimo, which we have no doubt you have received. I am Dear Sir...
I have received your favor of the 8th. inclosing 100$. 13 Hhds of your Tobacco arrived a few days since. I shall not have it inspected until the remainder comes down. I am Dear Sir Yr. Mt. humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Your favor of the 19th. came duly to hand. None of your Tobacco has yet come down. That of a common quality sells at about 31/6.—Yours I suppose would command about 36/. Mr. Lyle informs me that Tobacco will not suit him, that he is much in want of the thousand dollars, and shall expect us to sell as much as will raise it, immediately on its arrival. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble Servt. MHi :...
As I do not know where Mr. Short is at present, I take the liberty of inclosing you a letter for him, which you will much oblige him, as well as myself by forwarding. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Jan. and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not found.
Your favor of the 7th. to G. & J. inclosing 350$ came duly to hand; the receipt of which from pure inattention in myself , was not in course acknowledged: it has been in part, and shall be in full, applied as you direct. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Dec. and so recorded in SJL .
I now inclose your account made up to the end of the year, by which there appears to be a balance in your favor of £19.17.6. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. Tobacco 30/. Wheat 6/— RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 Jan. and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure not found.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 11th. inclosing the Treasurer’s draft on the Collector of this place for $:600 which is in good time. I am Dear Sir Yr Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 19 Feb. and so recorded in SJL .
You will find a bill of lading inclosed for 1050 bushels of Coal, which with 400 bushels for Mr. Madison, was as much as the vessel would carry.—3 or 400 bushels of the last put in, Mr. Nicolson informs me is entirely in lumps. Mr. M. and yourself had better therefore both begin to receive at the same time, so that each may get a proportion of it. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi :...
The inclosed I forward for your acceptance. Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
At the instance of Mr. Randolph I yesterday forwarded to you a box of wax Candles by John Conners waggon, to be left at Mr. Higginbothams. I am Dear Sir Yr. Mt. humble servt. 37 lb. @ $23.12 MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I have duly received your favor of the 6th inclosing 250$, it being for the purpose of taking up Mr. Eppes’s dft in favor of Mr Thweatt for the purchase of a horse. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
This will be handed to you by Mr Strobia, who is so obliging as to take charge of the two boxes containing the Terrines, as well as of the small box, about which I lately wrote you. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I yesterday sent you 3 bushels of potatoes by Mr. Randolph’s Ben.—there is not a keg of cranberries to be had in our poor City. I am Dear Sir Yr. Mt. humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
The two boxes of sheet iron are here. For want of water carriage, Mr. Graham some time since (I think he said at the request of one of your workmen) engaged a waggon to take them; but on measuring them, it was found they were too large for such a conveyance. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I have to day sold your 3 Hhds of ducked Tobacco to a Manufacturer at 33/. on a credit of 90 days. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 Mch. and so recorded in SJL . For the ducked Tobacco , see George Jefferson to TJ, 28 Feb.
I am duly favor’d with yours of the 7th, inclosing 500$ — and am as always Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
Your favor of the 13th inclosing a Treasury draft on our Collector for 900$ is received. I have paid Mr. Gordon $:883. 54/100 , being the amount of your bond to the late Doctor Currie, with interest. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
An absence of some days from Town has prevented my sooner replying to your favor of the 29th ultimo.—It is seldom that any of the wines you mention are to be had here—and when to be had, must of course come higher, than they do in the Northern Towns; as we get our small supplies of those kinds entirely from thence, with the exception of a small proportion from Norfolk. I am Dear Sir Your Very...
The boxes alluded to in your favor of the 25th, were re-shipped to Baltimore on the 21st. Yr. Very humble Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 7th. inclosing 75$—The coal you require shall be forwarded by the first opportunity; there are however but few vessels I believe, which go from here to Alexa. and fewer still to Washington. only 14 hhds of your Tobacco are yet down. the price now is from 6 to 7$ according to quality, or the opinion of it . I hope yours may be supposed to...
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 5th inclosing 300$: I now inclose you a bill of loading for 1300 bushels of Coal, & for five boxes some short time ago received from Monticello. At the same time that I gave an order for your Coal, I likewise gave one for about the same quantity for Mr. Madison, which I supposed would probably go in the same Vessel.—Will you be so...
I forwarded some days since the remainder of the nail rod , & the hoop-iron, received some time ago. I likewise forwarded by C. Becks’s boat 31 packages lately received from George Town & Alexandria, together with a Hhd of Molasses & the 3 Casks Cyder. I could not conveniently get the Molasses caskd, and therefore sent it without, supposing Becks to be perfectly honest, and very careful. I...
I am duly favor’d with yours of the 5th. inclosing 240$.— The box of glass from Boston is still here, scarcely any boats from Milton having come down for some time past.—The first eighty bundles of nail-rod you mention I have forwarded, supposing it would probably be immediately wanted.—The Mahogony has not yet arrived, nor have the books from Monticello. I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble servt. RC...
I have lately received, and have to day forwarded to Johnston & Richardson of Norfolk, to be by them sent on to Mr. Barnes by the first opportunity, seven dozen of Mr. Macons hams; being all that he can spare. I am endeavouring to make up the quantity you require, and hope shortly to procure such as may be relied upon. The two boxes & Cask of wine from Philada. arrived some days ago, and were...
I have duly received your favor of the 16th. and have in compliance therewith given you credit by Mr. Barnes for the 130:$ received of Mosby for Mr. Short. The cyder has not yet arrived from Norfolk; which however, as yet, is of no consequence, as it could not have been forwarded, in consequence of the low water. There have not I believe been a dozen boats down from Milton in 5 or 6. months. I...
I sent you a few days ago by Thomas Kindred the articles contained in the memorandum which I brought down with me—together with 4 dozen chairs which came from Philadelphia. I have received of the James River company on acct. of Mr. Short £76.9.1, of which I have informed Mr. Barnes as usual. The Gunpowder you mention shall be forwarded by the first opportunity. I am Dear Sir Your Very humble...
I am duly favor’d with yours of the 8th. I find that we paid as you state, to W. Irvine, on the 23d. of March 1803, for your order in favor of Joseph Moran, $:98—. Upon referring to your letter of the 8th. of February preceding, I find, that after advising us of several drafts you had made on us (among the number one in favor of Jos. Moran for $:98—) you say “as the persons to whom the above...
Having been about to leave Town for two or three weeks and having been desirous previously of disposing of your Tobacco—I was to day induced to offer it at 42/., altho’ I did once hope, I might have done something better with it. even that however I could not obtain—partly I believe in consequence of late advices from England, which are somewhat unfavorable; those from France however I did...