James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1817
From James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson)
16 Decr 1817
Sir
I send you by mr Gilmore 5 Boxes & four Bales or Baskets which have just been recd from Norfolk which I wish safe to hand—the Bale of Cotton you wrote for some time ago, was not then nor is not now to be obtained here—Except some of very inferior quality which I suppose will not answer you—
very respectfully Yr obt servt
P Gibson |
⅌ J Ligon |
RC (ViU: TJP-ER); entirely in Ligon’s hand; dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello by M Gilmore”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Gibson & Jefferson received 5 Jan. 1818 from Richmond and so recorded in SJL.