Thomas Jefferson to John Hemmings, 18 December 1821
To John Hemmings
Tuesday Dec. 18. 21.
Th Jefferson to John Hemings
Your letter was dated Tuesday the 11th. came in the mail to Charlottesville Saturday night the 15th. I recieved it the next day 16th and it requested the mules to be at Poplar Forest on Monday (yesterday) the 17th which was impossible. it moreover rained all day yesterday and last night. the boys set off this morning.
I desired Jefferson to tell you to make out a bill of scantling for exactly such another barn as that at Poplar Forest that the stuff might be carried immediately to Capt Martin’s to be sawed. the Carpenters will go up in the spring to build it. Lilburne has a hurt on his leg which will disable him from walking back. Eston must drive the cart therefore and Lilburne stay and come in the waggon.
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of George Alexander Otis to TJ, 15 July 1820; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ.
jefferson: Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
Index Entries
- building materials; timber search
- carts; for transportation between Monticello and Poplar Forest search
- health; leg injury search
- health; of slaves search
- Hemings, Eston (TJ’s enslaved son; b.1808); drives cart search
- Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); as woodworker search
- Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); letters to search
- Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); travels to and from Poplar Forest search
- Hern, Lilburn (TJ’s slave; b.1809); health of search
- Martin, James; and TJ’s timber search
- mules; sent to and from Poplar Forest search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); barns at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); mules sent to and from search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); as manager of Poplar Forest search
- slaves; as carpenters search
- slaves; health of search
- slaves; letters to search
- wagons; transport people and goods between Monticello and Poplar Forest search
- weather; rain search