Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Crawford, 29 December 1822

To Samuel Crawford

Monto Dec. 29. 22.

Sir

Colo Yancey has been so kind as to inclose me the prospectus of a paper proposed to be published by you under the name of the Virginia times. age and retirement from the affairs of the world have reduced me to the reading of a single newspaper only, the Enquirer which I have taken from it’s first origin. willing however to encourage a paper of promise at it’s outset I subscribe to yours in it’s semi-weekly form for one year, after which I pray you to consider my subscription as discontd. on presenting this letter to Colo Bernard Peyton he will pay you in advance for the paper which be pleased to forward by the Charlottesville mail and to accept my respectful salutns

Th:J.

FC (DLC); on verso of top half of reused address cover of Daniel Brent to TJ, 5 Sept. 1821; in TJ’s hand; at foot of text: “Mr Saml Crawford”; endorsed by TJ. Recorded in SJL with additional notation: “Virga times.”

Index Entries

  • Crawford, Samuel; as editor ofVirginia Times search
  • Crawford, Samuel; letters to search
  • Crawford, Samuel; Proposal for theVirginia Times search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; and newspaper subscriptions search
  • newspapers; RichmondVirginia Times search
  • Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
  • Richmond Enquirer (newspaper); TJ subscribes to search
  • Virginia Times (Richmond newspaper) search
  • Yancey, Charles (1766–ca.1825); and S. Crawford’s Proposal for theVirginia Times search