Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from William Dickson of Virginia, 14 February 1805

From William Dickson of Virginia

Norfolk 14 feby 1804 [i.e. 1805]

Sir

By the desire of the inclosed Memorialists I am requested to inform you that by next Mail You will be handed an additional Number of Names which for want of time could not be collected—

With profound Esteem I am Sir your most Obt St.

William Dickson

RC (DLC: Gideon Welles Papers); misdated; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr. President of the U.S. of America City Washington”; franked; postmarked Suffolk, Virginia, 18 Feb.; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 14 Feb. 1805 received 22 Feb. and so recorded in SJL, connected by a brace with the letter from Littleton W. Tazewell of 16 Feb. with notation “for bridge.” Enclosure: memorial, not found, probably enclosed in TJ to Robert Smith, 23 Feb.; see also Tazewell to TJ, 16 Feb.

William Dickson (d. ca. 1825) was a merchant based in Portsmouth, Virginia (Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger, 30 Dec. 1812; Washington Daily National Journal, 4 Jan. 1826).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from William Dickson of Virginia, 14 February 1805
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    Dickson, William (Virginia)
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    14 February 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from William Dickson of Virginia, 14 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0503. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 505.]