Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1822
From Bernard Peyton
Richd 11 Novr 1822
Dear Sir,
I am favor’d with yours of the 6th: cut, & have this day purchased a dft: on Boston for $73.93, at a premm of 1 pr Ct, & remitted it to Genl Henry A. S. Dearborne, on your ℀, as directed, which places at your debit on this ℀ $74.67— I also paid Wm Barrett $750 on your ℀, as requested, on the 6th: Inst:, & hold his rect for the same
When your dft: for $220 Dollars, favor W. & Raphael is presented, it shall be paid, as also F. A. Mayo’s bill for binding—
The balance your Flour is still unsold, & no purchasers in the market at any price, I have never known the article so dull at this season of the year before—a small sale on saturday at $5⅞—
Bernard Peyton
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 18 Nov. 1822, but recorded in SJL as received a day earlier. RC (MHi); address cover only; with Dft of TJ to Tarlton Saunders, 26 Aug. 1823, on verso; addressed: “Mr Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 11 Nov.
premm: “premium.” w. & raphael: the Charlottesville firm of Wolfe & Raphael.
Index Entries
- A. Robertson & Company (firm); TJ’s debt to search
- Barret, William; and TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Dearborn, Henry Alexander Scammell; as Boston customs collector search
- flour; at Richmond search
- flour; sale of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; binding of books search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with H. A. S. Dearborn search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Mayo, Frederick August; binds books for TJ search
- Mayo, Frederick August; TJ pays search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Richmond, Va.; flour prices at search
- Wolfe & Raphael (Charlottesville firm); TJ pays search