Frank Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June 1813
From Frank Carr
Charlottesville June 26th 1813
My dear Sir,
Enclosed is a specimen of the Sulphuret of Antimony, which was found in this neighbourhood—It’s appearance, and the chemical tests to which I have exposed it shew it to be very pure—As we have not been able to discover the place from which this has been obtained, it’s value cannot be ascertained—
With great respect
Frank Carr
RC (ViU: TJP-CC); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 27 June 1813, but recorded in SJL as received the day it was written; with attached scrap, containing portions of another letter in an unidentified hand, and TJ’s docket: “the specimen sent to mr Correa at Philadelphia,” a reference to TJ to José Corrêa da Serra, 27 Dec. 1814.
Frank Carr (1784–1854), physician and newspaper editor, owned the Red Hills estate in Albemarle County. He provided medical services at Monticello on several occasions. During the War of 1812 Carr was a surgeon for the county militia. He served as a county magistrate in 1816 and as sheriff in 1839. Beginning late in the 1820s, Carr was the co-owner and editor of the Charlottesville Virginia Advocate, and he printed the first edition of in 1829. He was also an early member of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle and held the office of assistant secretary in 1820. Carr ran schools on more than one occasion, including one attended by Hore Browse Trist and Nicholas P. Trist. In addition, he served as trustee and secretary of the board for the Albemarle Academy and as proctor of the University of Virginia ( 3 [1896]: 209; , 128, 129; , 2:1276, 1289, 1334; , 96, 377, 379; Richmond Enquirer, 10 Oct. 1829, 29 Nov. 1831; Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet, “Newspapers in Charlottesville and Albemarle County,” 50 [1992]: 71; 269, 291; , 1:121, 124, 126, 2:351, 3:198; Elizabeth Trist to Catharine Wistar Bache, 12 Sept. 1817 [PPAmP: Bache Papers]; Hore Browse Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 13 May [Apr.] 1819 [DLC: Nicholas P. Trist Papers]; Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser, 11 July 1854).
sulphuret: sulphide ( ).