Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 March 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monto Mar. 21. 23.
Dr Sir.
I this inst. recieve your of ye 17th and hasten to inclose the blanks whch had escaped me. I am in hopes1 they are still2 in time altho’ I do not recollect their exact days. will you be so good as to send up to mr Brockenbro’3 the remainder of the plans of the Univty. I expect you have recd from mr Coffee and forwarded4 for me to Bedford a box of ornaments of Architecture.5 I suppose the Sicily Madeira is waiting for conveyance. should Colo Sam. Carr’s boats be coming up at any time6 & his white boatman in it he assures me he may be trusted
Th:J
Dft (MHi); written on verso of RC of Peyton to TJ, 17 Mar. 1823. Recorded in SJL with additional bracketed notation: “blanks.” Enclosure not found.
1. Preceding three words interlined in place of “think however.”
2. Preceding two words interlined in place of “must yet be.”
3. Preceding three words interlined.
4. Manuscript: “fowarded.”
5. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
6. Preceding three words interlined.
Index Entries
- architecture; architectural ornaments search
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; as University of Virginia proctor search
- Carr, Samuel (TJ’s nephew); boats of search
- Coffee, William John; fashions ornaments for TJ search
- Madeira (wine) search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s bank notes search
- Peyton, Bernard; and wine for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; forwards goods for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); architectural ornaments for search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; ground plan of search
- wine; Madeira search
- wine; TJ arranges delivery of search