Thomas L. Winthrop to Thomas Jefferson, 26 August 1805
From Thomas L. Winthrop
Boston Augst. 26th. 1805.
Sir,
In conformity with your desire, signified to me by Genl. Dearborn, I have caused to be put on board a Vessel bound to Petersburgh, to the address of Messrs. Gibson & Jefferson of Richmond, the Marble Statue of which Mr. Bowdoin solicited your acceptance.
It will afford me much satisfaction to be honored with your Commands, if at any time I can be useful to you here.
With great respect I am Sir, Yr. Obedt. h’ble Servt.
Thos. L. Winthrop
RC (DLC); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 5 Sep. and so recorded in SJL.
Thomas L. Winthrop (1760-1841) was a Connecticut native who studied at Yale College before receiving a degree from Harvard in 1780. Along with his brother Joseph, he became a partner in the mercantile firm of Winthrop, Tod, and Winthrop. He married Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple, a niece of James Bowdoin, who described him to TJ as “my agent & near Relation.” Winthrop later distinguished himself as a civic leader and Republican politician in Massachusetts, where he served as president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture (Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America [Boston, 1948], 209-19; W. H. Whitmore, An Account of the Temple Family with Notes and Pedigree of the Family of Bowdoin [Boston, 1856], 7, 12; William Jenks, “Memoir of the Late Thomas L. Winthrop,” Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th ser., 2 [1854], 202-14; Vol. 46:337; Dearborn to TJ, 22 July).
your desire: TJ to Dearborn, 25 July (second letter).
For the Marble Statue of Ariadne, see Vol. 46:xliv, 99.