Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 4 May 1822

To James Leitch

4 May 1822

Mr. James Leitch is requested to pay to Edmund Meeks or order 14 Dollars 71 cents on account of Th: Jefferson.

Tr (TJ Editorial Files); typescript from manuscript offered by Charles Hamilton Galleries, Inc., auction 54, New York City, 9 Dec. 1971, lot 256. Not recorded in SJL.

TJ gave Meeks the order on Leitch for 14 dollars 71 cents that same day, and Leitch paid it on 6 May 1822 (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1385; Leitch Daybook description begins MS daybook of Charlottesville merchant James Leitch, 2 Mar. 1820–8 May 1823, ViCMRL, on deposit ViU, bound volume with ruled paper, in a clerk’s hand description ends , p. 402).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 4 May 1822
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Leitch, James
Date: 4 May 1822

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 4 May 1822,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-18-02-0327. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 18, 1 December 1821 to 15 September 1822, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 368.]

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