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Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 28 September 1820

To James Leitch

Sep. 28. 20.

4. wash basons & pitchers.

½ doz. chamber pots.

1. ℔ pepper

Th:J.

RC (ViU: TJP); written on a small scrap; dateline beneath signature; at foot of text: “Mr Leitch.” Not recorded in SJL.

Leitch’s records indicate that on this date TJ purchased by order

“82 ℔. Bar Iron 6d, 1 ℔ Pepper 3/.   7 33
  2 Basons & Ewers 10/6. 2 do Liverpool China do 15/. 8 50
  6 Liverpool China Chamber pots 6/9 6 75 ”
for a total of $22.58 (Leitch Daybook description begins MS daybook of Charlottesville merchant James Leitch, 2 Mar. 1820–8 May 1823, ViCMRL on deposit ViU, bound volume with ruled paper, in a clerk’s hand description ends , p. 134).

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 28 September 1820
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient
Leitch, James
Date
28 September 1820

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“Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 28 September 1820,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-16-02-0235. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 16, 1 June 1820 to 28 February 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 289.]

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