Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 17 July 1817
To Craven Peyton
July 17. 17.
Th:J. to mr Peyton
you are quite free, my dear Sir, to make the use you propose of the opinion I gave you, and under the cautions you express. my object is to avoid giving useless offence. I salute you with friendship
P.S. your servt has been detained by the interruption of a visit from a foreigner
RC (Mrs. Charles W. Biggs, Lewisburg, W.Va., 1950; photocopy in MsSM); dateline between note and postscript; addressed: “Mr Peyton Mont-eagle.” Not recorded in SJL.
Index Entries
- law; TJ provides legal advice search
- Lewis, Charles (d.1806) (TJ’s nephew); property dispute with C. Peyton search
- Lewis, Charles Lilburne (TJ’s brother-in-law); dispute with C. Peyton search
- Monteagle (C. Peyton’s Albemarle Co. estate); dispute over search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); Visitors to; unidentified search
- Peyton, Craven; dispute with Lewis family search
- Peyton, Craven; letters to search