Thomas Jefferson to Return J. Meigs, 3 March 1823
To Return J. Meigs
Monticello Mar. 3. 23.
Dear Sir
I am aware that no individual ought to expect that a post office, in distributing it’s letters,1 will attend to any thing but their superscription. yet it would be a signal service to me if your distributor could recollect to put my letters into the Charlottesville mail, instead of that of Milton. with the former place I have daily communication, with the latter none. but if this request2 is out of order, I pray you to consider it3 as not made, and to be assured of my great esteem and respect.
Th: Jefferson
RC (InU: Meigs Manuscripts); addressed: “Return J. Meigs esq. P.M.G. Washington”; franked; postmarked; endorsed in an unidentified hand. Dft (MoSHi: TJC-BC); on verso of a reused address cover from James Oldham to TJ; endorsed by TJ.
1. Preceding four words interlined in Dft.
2. Word interlined in Dft.
3. Word interlined in Dft in place of “the applicn.”