To Thomas Jefferson from Marten Wanscher, 10 December 1802
From Marten Wanscher
Alaxander—Decembere 10th. 1802
Mester Toms Jefferson
if you please to Let me have 30 thirty Dallors i have Sat op Shop in qeen Strith
yours morst obeden Servent
Marten Wanscher
RC (MHi); addressed: “Tomos Jefferson president City Washington”; franked; postmarked 13 Dec.; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Dec. and so recorded in SJL.
German immigrant Marten Wanscher of Alexandria did plaster work at Monticello from 1801 to 1802, and again for several months in 1804. TJ had made several payments to Wanscher since the completion of his first term of employment in April 1802, including most recently a $30 payment on 4 Dec. A letter from Wanscher to TJ dated 2 Dec. 1802, recorded in SJL as received on 3 Dec. with the notation “30. D.,” has not been found (, 2:1053, 1073, 1087, 1126, 1137; Vol. 35:49–51, 95–6; Vol. 38:676; TJ to Wanscher, 30 Nov. 1803, 10 Apr. 1804; , 5:352).