Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 12 August 1821
To Craven Peyton
Monticello Aug. 12. 21.
Dear Sir
Instead of answering your letter yesterday, I desired the bearer to tell you I should see you at Monteagle to-day, being anxious also to see my sister, before I set out to Bedford, whom you mention to be still unwell. I accordingly mounted my horse just now to visit you, but found him so lame I was obliged to turn back. with respect to the fodder I had, on mr Bacon’s suggestion, searched for and found the account of it which he had given me at the time & I had forgotten. that therefore is right and there can be no difficulty between us. I have not yet learned from mr Eston Randolph when he will be able to make me payment; the moment he does I will transmit it to you. I have not yet urged him, because I know he is a most anxious man always to pay a debt, and that he will soon inform me. with respect to Bankhead if ever he becomes a sober man, there will be no difficulty of reconciliation on Anne’s account. but as long as he is subject to drink, his society is dangerous & we shall reject it.
I shall be glad to know the exact state of my sister’s health: and pray, if she needs it, that Dr Watkins may be requested to attend to her, and to place it in my account. I shall not stay more than a week in Bedford. affectionately Your’s
Th: Jefferson
RC (ViU: TJP); addressed: “Craven Peyton esquire Monteagle.” PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of John F. Oliveira Fernandes to TJ, 19 May 1821; edge trimmed; endorsed by TJ.
Peyton’s letter is printed above at 26 Mar. 1821. It was dated both 26 Mar. and 11 Aug. 1821 and received by TJ on the latter date. A missing letter of 7 Aug. 1821 from Charles L. bankhead to TJ, not found, is recorded in SJL as received three days later from Charlottesville.
Index Entries
- alcohol; abuse of search
- Bacon, Edmund; Monticello overseer search
- Bankhead, Ann (Anne) Cary Randolph (TJ’s granddaughter; Charles Lewis Bankhead’s wife); relationship with husband search
- Bankhead, Charles Lewis (Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead’s husband); alcohol abuse by search
- Bankhead, Charles Lewis (Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead’s husband); family of search
- Bankhead, Charles Lewis (Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead’s husband); letters from accounted for search
- horses; disabled search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with C. Peyton search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with T. E. Randolph search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Family & Friends; friendship with Bankheads search
- Marks, Anne Scott Jefferson (TJ’s sister; Hastings Marks’s wife); health of search
- Marks, Anne Scott Jefferson (TJ’s sister; Hastings Marks’s wife); visits C. Peyton and family search
- Peyton, Craven; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Craven; and A. S. Marks search
- Peyton, Craven; letters to search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ plans visits to search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); account with TJ search
- slaves; errands by search
- Watkins, Thomas G.; as physician search