John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1820
From John Vaughan
Philad. 22 March 1820
Dr sir
I have recd your favor of 12th correcting an error in your Statement previously made relative to the money at M Coopers disposal.1 I have sent a Copy to him for his Governmt.2
Whenever you send your orders for Paris & Leghorn they shall be attended to—I fear the event at the former place is a sign of troublesome times returning— I remain with great respect
Jn Vaughan
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 30 Mar. 1820 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Jerman Baker, 1 Sept. 1820, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Monticello Virginia”; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 22 Mar.
the event, recently reported in the United States, was the assassination in Paris the previous month of Charles Ferdinand d’Artois, duc de Berry. He was the youngest son of the future French king Charles X (Boston New-England Palladium & Commercial Advertiser, 17 Mar. 1820).
1. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
2. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
Index Entries
- Artois, Charles Ferdinand d’, duc de Berry; assassination of search
- Artois, Charles Philippe, comte d’ (later Charles X, king of France); family of search
- Cooper, Thomas; University of Virginia professorship proposed for search
- France; assassinations in search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; lines of credit in Europe search
- Vaughan, John; and T. Cooper search
- Vaughan, John; and TJ’s lines of credit in Europe search
- Vaughan, John; letters from search
- Virginia, University of; Faculty and Curriculum; faculty compensation search
- Virginia, University of; Faculty and Curriculum; T. Cooper as proposed professor search