Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1815
From Joseph Milligan
Fredericksburg May 6th 1815 Three O,clock
Respected1 Friend
I have by the mail which will bring you this Sent you four Copies of the Exposition &c two are for yourself one for Col Randolph & one for Capt Carr Capt Car will pay you for his Copy and I will charge it to your acccount
as ⅌ invoice on the next page I have sent you the part of your order that I could procure in this place the rest will be sent from Georgetown
yesterday at one oclock I had the Seven wagons passed over the River Rappahannock which we Loaded on tuesday morning the one which we loaded on wednesday morning has not yet arrived here but as I have now waited until it is three o clock I will leave orders with Capt Wm F Gray for2 him & set out
Joseph Milligan
RC (DLC); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello Milton Via [i.e., Virginia]”; franked; postmarked Fredericksburg, 9 May; endorsed by TJ as received 11 May and so recorded in SJL; with enclosure on verso of address leaf.
Milligan mailed four copies of Dallas, Exposition. tuesday was 2 May 1815.
1. Manuscript: “Respcted.”
2. Manuscript: “fro.”
3. Manuscript: “respct.”
Index Entries
- An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War (A. J. Dallas) search
- books; on War of1812 search
- books; sent by J. Milligan search
- Carr, Samuel (TJ’s nephew); books of search
- Dallas, Alexander James; An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War search
- Gray, William Fairfax; assists with transportation of TJ’s library search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; receives works search
- Library of Congress; transportation of TJ’s books to Washington search
- Milligan, Joseph; assists with packing and transportation of TJ’s library search
- Milligan, Joseph; letters from search
- Milligan, Joseph; sends books to TJ search
- Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); publications sent to search
- War of1812; An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War (A. J. Dallas) search