Robert Smith to Thomas Jefferson, [18 November 1805]
From Robert Smith
Monday morning [18 Nov. 1805]
Sir,
A Bill drawn by Wm Higgins on me for $.212 has been this moment presented to me for payment.—This bill is, I suspect, on your account: I have accordingly referred the holder to you. If it should not be on your account, you will be pleased to let the holder return to me.
Respecty.
Rt Smith
RC (MoSHi: Jefferson Papers); partially dated; endorsed by TJ as a letter written and received on 18 Nov. 1805 and so recorded in SJL; also endorsed by TJ: “Higgins’s bill for 212. D. for wine.”
your account: on 5 Dec., TJ recorded in his financial memoranda that John Barnes had paid $212 to Nicklin & Griffith “in discharge of my acceptance of William Higgens’ bill on Rob. Smith for 2. pipes of Marsalla wine” (, 2:1168). See also TJ to Higgins, 5 May 1805.