Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1822
From Bernard Peyton
Richd 24 Octob. 1822
Dear Sir,
I am favor’d with yours covering a set of notes for the renewal of yours at the several Banks, which shall be attended to.
I have recd 93 Barrels your Flour from Shadwell Mills this season, not one Barrel of which have I yet been able to dispose of, owing to the entire absence of demand for the article—I will however embrace the earliest favorable opportunity of effecting sale the whole, of which you shall be advised; the present nominal price is $6—Wheat 120 @ 125¢, scarce & in demand—Corn $3½ dull—
The dft: to Sims of $300, of which you advise, shall be paid at maturity—all those heretofore spoken of, have been presented & paid.
With great respect & regard Dr sir
B. Peyton
Judge Green has examined “The Press Copy,” & pronounces it utterly impossible for you to have recd the money for the bill on Grand & Co, from the face of the ℀, & would gladly write an explanation of it, for the Enquirer, if he could lay his hands on the charges preferred by “the Native of Virginia,” on the subject, in his Pamphlet, which is not to be had here: have you it?—
B.P.
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 29 Oct. 1822 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with Dft of TJ to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 Jan. 1825, on verso; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 24 Oct.
Index Entries
- corn; price of search
- flour; from Shadwell search
- Grand & Compagnie (Paris firm) search
- Green, John Williams; friendship with B. Peyton search
- letter press (copying device) search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s bank notes search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and “A Native of Virginia” search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Richmond, Va.; corn prices at search
- Richmond, Va.; wheat prices in search
- Richmond Enquirer (newspaper); prints vindications of TJ search
- Shadwell mills; flour from search
- Sims, William M.; TJ pays search
- wheat; price of search
- “A Native of Virginia” (pseudonym); accuses TJ of misuse of public funds search