Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Dodge, 19 July 1822
To Joshua Dodge
Monticello July 19. 22.
Dear Sir
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 12th from N. York, and sincerely congratulate you on your arrival in your native state. I have no doubt the President will consent to the stay which you desire. we expect him daily on a visit to his estate adjoining Monticello, when I shall probably have repeated interviews with him, of which I will avail myself to obtain the permission you ask, which may be more effectually urged in conversation than by writing. I am flattered by your promise of a visit to us, and shall be happy to recieve you here. should you take Richmond in your tour, I would recommend to you when arrived at Fredericksburg, to take the stage to this place first, and hence to Richmond, rather than that to Richmond first and thence to this place. I have been endeavoring to introduce a taste for the lighter & cheaper wines of the South of France to the exclusion of the strong & dearer wines of Portugal & Spain, and I should gladly give you letters to Richmond, which with the benefit of your presence, would probably be the beginning of a first1 demand of experiment, which I think would soon become considerable. your account of the price and quality of the brandies of Cette is so encouraging that I will ask the favor of you to order a quarter pipe to be added to the articles stated in my letter of June 11. and to be in bottles, in which it will come safer. the dark colour is generally preferred with us. this may cause my invoice to overgo my remittance. the difference may conveniently be paid either here or there. I salute you with great esteem and respect.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of William Barret to TJ, 13 Mar. 1821; at foot of text: “Joshua Dodge esq.”; endorsed by TJ.
1. Word interlined.
Index Entries
- alcohol; bottles and jugs for search
- alcohol; brandy search
- bottles search
- brandy; French search
- carriages; stagecoaches search
- Cette (Sète), France; brandy from search
- Charlottesville, Va.; stagecoach to and from Fredericksburg search
- Charlottesville, Va.; stagecoach to and from Richmond search
- Dodge, Joshua; and wine and groceries for TJ search
- Dodge, Joshua; invoices from search
- Dodge, Joshua; letters to search
- Dodge, Joshua; plans to visit TJ search
- Dodge, Joshua; TJ pays search
- Dodge, Joshua; visits U.S. search
- France; wine from search
- Highland (J. Monroe’s Albemarle Co. estate); J. Monroe plans to visit search
- household articles; bottles search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; Invoice from Joshua Dodge search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; orders wine from J. Dodge search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Opinions on; wine search
- Monroe, James (1758–1831); and J. Dodge search
- Portugal; wine from search
- Richmond, Va.; stagecoach to and from search
- Spain; wine from search
- wine; French search
- wine; Portuguese search
- wine; Spanish search
- wine; TJ orders from J. Dodge search