Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1819
From Wilson Cary Nicholas
Warren Sept. 20. 1819
My Dear Sir
I return the bond executed by me.1 you may rely with the most absolute certainty upon me to prevent your having to advance any thing. I will take care to pay the interest which being done regularly I understand the principal will not be demanded but at the periods that the money will be due for my property. It is to me the most afflicting thing of my life, that I shou’d have involved you above all others, in such a business.2 I cannot allow you to be put to any further trouble or inconvenience. I have intended for some time to write you to express my warm acknowledgements for your last letter3 but I feel such anguish when I reflect how little I am entitled to so much kindness from you, that I have not had the heart to address you
W. C. Nicholas
I thought I had mentioned to you that my friend Mr Joseph Marx had a power of attorney from me to execute notes or bonds to the Bank U.S. in my behalf. His signature as my attorney wou’d have been as good as mine & have saved you the trouble of sending here.
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 20 Sept. 1819 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Bond of Wilson Cary Nicholas, TJ, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph to the Second Bank of the United States, 15 Sept. 1819, document 2 in a group of documents on Jefferson’s Mortgage of Bedford County Land, 15 Sept. 1819.
1. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
2. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
3. Preceding nine words interlined.
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bond with W. C. Nicholas and T. J. Randolph search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; endorses notes for W. C. Nicholas search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Bond of Wilson Cary Nicholas, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph to the Second Bank of the United States search
- Marx, Joseph; and power of attorney for W. C. Nicholas search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); bond with TJ and T. J. Randolph search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); letters from search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); TJ endorses notes for search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search