Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 10 May 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monticello May 10. 23.
Dear Sir
My affairs in Bedford not permitting me to wait longer I shall set out for that place the day after tomorrow, to be absent 2. or 3. weeks. altho’ we have not heard of our Bedford tobo having arrived at Richmd yet Jefferson seems confident that some must have arrived, and that all will do so soon from that and this place. in the mean time I must pay some neighborhood debts before I set out, & therefore have been obliged to draw on you this day for 150.D. in favr of Jacobs & Raphael, for which you will soon1 have funds in hand.
In my letter of June 20th 22. I wrote to you for
| 2. bundles2 of nailrod | VIIId | |
| 2 do3 | XXd |
6. do of the intermediate sizes, meaning of course Xs XIIs XVIs.4 I recieved in July 2. bundles of XXd 1. do VIIId and 7. do5 VIs & IVs which are quite useless to me. I now therefore, by Wood’s boat6 return the 7. bundles of what is below the limits I wrote for, to be exchanged7 for 1. of VIIIs 2. of Xs 2 of XIIs and 2. of XVIs. I mentioned this to you when you were here, and trust the delay will make no difficulty, having been little able to attend to business during the winter
Th: Jefferson
RC (ViU: TJP). Dft (MHi); on verso of bottom half of reused address cover of Jared Mansfield to TJ, 6 Jan. 1823, not found (see note to TJ to James Pleasants, 21 Jan. 1823); endorsed by TJ as a letter to “Peyton B.”
jefferson: Thomas Jefferson Randolph. On this day TJ recorded the $150 drawn on Peyton in favor of jacobs & raphael, noting that $101.75 “pays their Quarter’s account” and “I now recieve from them cash 48.25” (, 2:1396).
1. Dft: “very soon.”
2. Preceding two words interlined in Dft in place of “100. ℔.”
3. Preceding two words interlined in Dft in place of “100. ℔.”
4. Dft here includes “two of each.”
5. Dft here includes “between.”
6. Preceding three words interlined in Dft.
7. RC: “exhanged.” Dft: “exchanged.”
Index Entries
- boats; carriage to and from Richmond search
- Jacobs & Raphael (Charlottesville firm); TJ pays search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); tobacco crop at search
- naileries; nail-rod and iron stock search
- Peyton, Bernard; and nail-rod for TJ 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
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); as manager of Poplar Forest search
- tobacco; grown at Monticello search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
- tobacco; transported to Richmond search
- Wood, Mr. (boatman) search