To Thomas Jefferson from David Jameson, 7 March 1782
From David Jameson
Richmond Mch 7. 1782
Dr. Sir
I inclose you the Revenue Act and the act for Specific’s passed last Session. By the former the old Specific law is repealed and the exemption done away and not revived in the last.
You say nothing of the Mule. I hope you received it safe. with the highest esteem I am Dr Sir Yr obt hb Servt,
David Jameson
RC (DLC); TJ’s draft of his letter to Overton Carr, 16 Mch. 1782, q.v., is written on the blank pages of Jameson’s letter. Enclosures (missing): Copies of “An act for ascertaining certain taxes and duties, and for establishing a permanent revenue” and “An act for laying taxes in certain enumerated commodities” ( x, 501–17; 490–2).
The two Acts sent by Jameson must have been requested by TJ in a letter in which he failed to say anything of the MULE; no such letter, if written, has been found. Mules were rare in America at this time, but there is apparently no evidence to show that TJ shared Washington’s great enthusiasm for that hybrid.