Richard Barry to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1812
From Richard Barry
Washington March 27th 1812
Sir
I received your letter of March the 16th in which there appears to be an Omission of the price of a Diamond purchased for you which cost eight Dollars and eighty cents—which appears by the inclosed settlement I send you I recd from Mr Barnes 70.⁵²⁄₁₀₀ Dollrs
Sir
There is estimates to be received the 6th of April by Mr Granger for finishing the Hotel I intend giving in one I thank you Sir for a few lines to accompany it, Mentioning your Knowlege of Me I would not trouble Sir but Mr Granger has no personal Knowlege of Me—wishing to hear from you I remain with good wishes for your Happiness
Richard Barry
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 1 Apr. 1812 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found.
SJL records TJ’s missing letter to Barry of march the 16th. The federal government had purchased Blodget’s hotel to house the patent and post offices. A statute passed on 7 Mar. 1812 authorized the postmaster general, Gideon granger, to supervise the necessary renovations (, 3:272–3, 274n; , 2:691–2).
Index Entries
- Barnes, John; as TJ’s agent search
- Barry, Richard; and Blodget’s Hotel search
- Barry, Richard; letters from search
- Barry, Richard; letters to accounted for search
- Barry, Richard; TJ makes payments to search
- Blodget’s Hotel (Washington) search
- diamonds; purchased by TJ search
- Granger, Gideon; and Blodget’s Hotel search
- Washington (D.C.); Blodget’s Hotel search