Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Stuart, 23 September 1804

From Archibald Stuart

Charlottesville 23d. Septr. 1804

Dear Sir

This will be handed to you by Mr. Geo: Goosely a young gent of the bar who resides at Suffolk—He is an amiable young Man, yr political friend, & very desirous of paying you his respects—

I am yrs. very respectfully

Archd: Stuart

RC (MHi); at foot of text: “The President”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Sep. and “by Goosely” and so recorded in SJL.

Geo: Goosely: a lawyer from Virginia, George Goosley had lost his wife earlier in 1804 and would himself perish in the wreck of the schooner Comfort while traveling to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1806 (Richmond Virginia Argus, 14 Mch.; Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, 4 Sep. 1806).

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