Thomas Jefferson Papers

Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1823

From Bernard Peyton

Rich’d 31 Mar: 1823

Dear Sir,

Agreeable to the request contained in yours of the — Inst:, have purchased for you Cruden’s Concordance, at $9, and will forward it by the first Waggon, for charlottesville, to the care of Mr Raphael—

I send by this mail the last of the three Books formerly ordered, for your Grand sons, all of which hope will reach you safely—

With great respect Dr sir Yours very Truly

Bernard Peyton

RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Apr. 1823 and so recorded in SJL.

TJ conveyed his request for a copy of Alexander Cruden, A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament (London, 1738, Sowerby description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends , no. 1495; Philadelphia, 1806, Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 9 [no. 516]) in a letter to Peyton of 24 Mar. 1823, not found, but recorded in SJL with the bracketed notation: “Cruden’s concordance.”

Index Entries

  • A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament (A. Cruden) search
  • Bible; works on search
  • Cruden, Alexander; A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and books for TJ search
  • Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
  • Peyton, Bernard; letters to accounted for search
  • Randolph, Benjamin Franklin (TJ’s grandson); education of search
  • Randolph, James Madison (TJ’s grandson); education of search
  • Randolph, Meriwether Lewis (TJ’s grandson); education of search
  • Raphael, Isaac; and goods for TJ search
  • wagons; transport goods to and from Richmond search