Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Brown, [before 23 November 1803] [document added in digital edition]

To Robert Brown

[before 23 Nov. 1803]

Th: Jefferson requests the favour of The Hon.ble Genl. Brown to dine with him on Wednesday the 23rd. inst at half after three, or at whatever later hour the house may rise.


The favour of an answer is asked.

RC (Nate D. Sanders Auctions, Los Angeles, May 2013, Lot 593); printed form, with blanks filled by Lewis Harvie reproduced in italics; partially dated; addressed by Harvie: “The Hon.ble Genl. Brown of Pensylvania.”

Wednesday the 23rd: Lewis Harvie was TJ’s secretary from June 1803 to March 1804. The one “Wednesday the 23rd” that fell during the period of Harvie’s employment was 23 Nov. 1803 (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1102n; Vol. 40:443n).

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    Jefferson Papers
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    From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Brown, [before 23 November 1803] [document added in digital edition]
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    Jefferson
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    Brown, Robert (of Pennsylvania)
    Date
    23 November 1803

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Brown, [before 23 November 1803] [document added in digital edition],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-9001. [This document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is original to the digital edition. It was added on 21 December 2018.]