From Thomas Jefferson to Louis André Pichon, 29 October 1803 [document added in digital edition]
To Louis André Pichon
Oct. 29. 03.
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Pichon. he meant to be understood the other evening as asking the favor of him to dine here to-day with messrs Soult & Delile. he did not know till the last night that mr Pichon did not so understand him. he hopes, if he has no engagement, he will do him the favor of dining here to-day at half after three.
RC (University Archives, Westport, Connecticut, 2018); addressed: “Mr. Pichon.” Not recorded in SJL.
the favor of dining: Pichon mentioned the 29 Oct. dinner in a letter to Jerome Bonaparte. The other invited guests were Jean François Soult and Alire Raffeneau Delile, both French commissaries of commercial relations (Edouard Dentu, ed., Mémoires et correspondance du roi Jérôme et de la reine Catherine, 7 vols. [Paris, 1861-66], 1:238; , Sec. of State Ser., 7:192; Providence Gazette, 24 Dec. 1803).