Thomas Jefferson Papers

LeRoy, Bayard & Company to Thomas Jefferson, 23 March [1820] [document added in digital edition]

From LeRoy, Bayard & Company

New York March 23d 1823. [1820]

Sir

Your letter of the 15th is received and it again affords us pleasure to comply with your wishes you will therefore at your convenience have the goodness to remit us the interest and we will wait until next year for the payment of the principal

In the meantime we beg leave to Subscribe

With Sentiments of great Esteem and respect—   Your Obedt Svts

LeRoy Bayard [& Co.]

RC (DLC: TJ Papers, 223:39959); in the hand of a representative of LeRoy, Bayard & Company; misdated; two words illegible; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 23 Mar. 1820 received 30 Mar. 1820 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Andrew Smith, 5 Sept. 1820, on verso; addressed: “To The Honble Thos Jefferson Monticello Virga”; franked; postmarked New York, 24 Mar. This document, located after the pertinent chronological volume was published, will appear in the concluding supplement to the print edition.

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