Thomas Jefferson to James Steptoe, [before 25 May 1823]

To James Steptoe

[before 25 May 1823]

Thursday if the weather is fine will James Steptoe have soup with a friend?

Thos Jefferson

Typescript (Miss Irving Guy, Bedford, 1940); undated, but written before the end of TJ’s final visit to Poplar Forest (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1396); addressed to Steptoe at “Federal Hill.” Not recorded in SJL.

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Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); invitations to visit search
Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ visits search
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Steptoe, James; invited to dinner search
Steptoe, James; letters to search
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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson to James Steptoe, [before 25 May 1823]
Authors: Jefferson, Thomas
Steptoe, James
Date: 25 May 1823

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson to James Steptoe, [before 25 May 1823],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-19-02-0481. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 19, 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 614.]