Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 April 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monto Apr. 18. 23.
Dear Sir
I shall set out in 3. or 4. days for Bedford, and not having money for the road, & having also some petty nbhood debts I have drawn on you this day for 140.D. in favr Jacobs and Raphael. I hope on my arrival in Bedfd to find my tobo crop beginning to be ready to go down. I shall be absent about a fortnight.1 I owe mr Rawlings for the fire2 insurce co. 84.40 which I gave him reason to expect before now. should you see him be so good as to let him know that I have waited only to get my tobo down when he shall3 certainly4 recieve the money. always yours
Th:J
Dft (MHi); on verso of portion of reused address cover of James Breckinridge to TJ, 6 Apr. 1823; endorsed by TJ as a letter to “Peyton Bernard.”
1. Sentence interlined.
2. Word added in margin.
3. Manuscript: “sall.”
4. Word interlined.
Index Entries
- Jacobs & Raphael (Charlottesville firm); TJ pays search
- Mutual Assurance Society; and TJ’s insurance search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ plans visits to search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); tobacco grown at search
- Rawlings, James; and Mutual Assurance Society search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search