Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 10 February 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monto Feb. 10. 23.
Th: Jefferson to Colo Peyton
I rejoiced to learn that Jefferson had filled up my deficit with you. T.E.R. failed me mortifyingly be so good as to place the inclosed note of Th:J.R. for 400.D to my credit. it will quickly be drawn for. in the mean time be so good as to send me about 100. ℔ Java or Bourbon coffee, the latter preferably if to be had, as also a quarter cask of Sicily Madeira, the best your place affords and in a double cask and by a trusty boat for security. remember that the unsold balance of the prints are to be sent to mr Brockenbrough, affectte salutns
FC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; in TJ’s hand; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 10 Feb. 1823, but recorded in SJL as a letter of 9 Feb. Enclosure not found.
Index Entries
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; as University of Virginia proctor search
- coffee; Bourbon search
- coffee; East India search
- coffee; TJ purchases search
- Madeira (wine) search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and University of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; and wine for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); and Shadwell mills search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Richmond, Va.; boat carriage to and from search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; ground plan of search
- wine; Madeira search