John Payne Todd to Thomas Jefferson, 7 March 1820
From John Payne Todd
Orange March 7—20.
Dear Sir
I very reluctantly enclose you the list of Medals furnished by Dr Mease from a fear that the answer to his enquiry may prove of some inconvenience. Mr Madison will carry with him the Volume of plates of which I Spoke to Monticello, together with a print of the lately finished and much admired front of the Louvre in Paris.
Payne Todd
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 10 Mar. 1820 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to William Lee, 24 Mar. 1820, on verso; addressed in an unidentified hand: “Thomas Jefferson Monticello”; franked; postmarked Orange Court House, 8 Mar. 1820.
The list of medals enclosed here, not found, was probably related to James Mease’s research for his “Description of some of the Medals, Struck in relation to Important Events in North America, before and since the Declaration of Independence by the United States,” New-York Historical Society, Collections 3 (1821): 387–404. In a letter to Todd of 24 Mar. 1820, Mease said of these medals that he had “described all I could find, and sent my paper to the Lit: & Hist: Soc: of New York” (PPAmP: Miscellaneous Manuscripts). For an earlier query to TJ on the subject, see Mease to TJ, 1 Oct. 1815; TJ to Mease, 15 Oct. 1815.
Index Entries
- Description of some of the Medals, Struck in relation to Important Events in North America (J. Mease) search
- Louvre; prints of search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); conveys prints to TJ search
- Madison, James (1751–1836); visits Monticello search
- Mease, James; and medals search
- Mease, James; Description of some of the Medals, Struck in relation to Important Events in North America search
- medals; commemorating Revolutionary War service search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); Visitors to; Madison, Dolley and James search
- New-York Historical Society; publications of search
- prints; of the Louvre search
- prints; sent to TJ search
- Revolutionary War; medals for service in search
- Todd, John Payne; and medals search
- Todd, John Payne; letters from search
- Todd, John Payne; sends prints to TJ search