Robert Rives to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1811
From Robert Rives
Oak Ridge Augt 4th 1811
Sir
I have just got home after an absence of 10 days and found your fav of the 20th Ult: covering a drft on G & J for $91.34 which is $12.34 over the cost of the books as ⅌ statd below— for which I enclose you a drft on M D & Co of Milton—
For your kind services towards my Son I am with inexpressible gratitude very respectfully
Your mt ob sert
Ro Rives
| Paid in London 26th Dec 1810 | = | £17. 0. 3 | ||
| Int: to 26th Oct allowg 3 months to place |  |
14.2 | ||
| the money in London | ||||
| 17.14.5 | ||||
| Exchange 115 ⅌Cent (the present | |
2.13.3 | ||
| rate at which we sell bills)— | ||||
| 20. 7.8 | is | $67.94 | ||
| Duty | 11. 6 | |||
| $79 | ||||
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 25 Aug. 1811 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found.