Thomas Jefferson to Dolley Payne Todd Madison, 10 July 1805
To Dolley Payne Todd Madison
July 10, 1805
Thomas Jefferson presents his respectful thanks to Mrs. Madison for the trouble she has been so kind as to take on his behalf. Nothing more is wanting, unless (having forgotten little Virginia) a sash or something of that kind could be picked up anywhere for her. The amount, and the person from whom the earrings and pin were bought, Thomas Jefferson would also ask of Mrs. Madison. He presents his affectionate salutations.
Tr (printed in Lucia Beverly Cutts, Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States [Boston, 1887], 28). Not recorded in SJL.
respectful thanks: see TJ to Dolley Payne Todd Madison, 6 July.
earrings and pin: TJ paid Burnett & Rigden, a Georgetown jewelry and watchmaking shop, $35 on 12 July for “ear-rings &c.” (Washington Federalist, 26 Oct. 1803; , 2:1148, 1159).