Thomas Jefferson to Dodge & Oxnard, 3 June 1823, with Jefferson’s Note
To Dodge & Oxnard, with Jefferson’s Note
Monto June 3. 23.
Messrs Dodge & Oxnard.
I now as usual make my annual application for supplies of wine Etc as noted below. according to arrangement with your mr Dodge on his late acceptable visit to me1 instead of remitting a bill for the conjectural amt as heretofore2 I shall pay on demand your draught for the actual amount in favor of mr P. P. F. Degrand or any other person you may think proper: and I pray you to forward these articles in all September to avoid both the summer heats & Winters cold. I salute you with great esteem and respect.
Th:J.
| red3 Ledanon wine | 100. | bottles |
| red wine4 of Bergasse | 200. | |
| Muscat de Rivesalt | 100. | |
| white wine of Limoux | 50 | |
| Virgin oil of Aix | 36 | |
| Maccaroni | 80 | ℔ |
| brandy | 60. | galls |
| Anchovies | 12. | bottles |
| for Th:J. & Th:J.R.5 as follows. | ||||||
| b. T.I | fr | |||||
| Ledanon | 100. | = | 150 | b. | f | |
| Claret | 100. | = | 100 | 100 = | 100 | |
| Muscat | 50 | = | 87½ | 50 = | 87½ | |
| Limoux | 25 | = | 50. | 25 = | 50. | |
| Oil | 24 | = | 48 | 12 = | 24 | |
| Maccaroni | 50 ℔ | = | 17½ | 30 = | 10½ | |
| brandy | 30. gs | = | 90. | 30 = | 90 | |
| Anchovies | 12. b | = | 15 | D | ||
| D | 67.88 | = | 362. | |||
| 104.69 | = | 558 | ||||
| 67.88 | ||||||
| 172.57 | ||||||
[Note by TJ on verso beneath endorsement:]
inclosed by duplicates to P. P. F. Degrand Boston to be forward at his discretion to mr Dodge if in this country, or to Dodge & Oxnard in Marseilles or one to each.
Dft (MHi); written on a half sheet; endorsed by TJ; with small scrap attached with sealing wax at foot of text in Thomas Jefferson Randolph’s hand, giving his order for 50 bottles of muscatel, 25 of Limoux wine, 100 of claret, a quarter cask of brandy, 12 bottles of oil, and 30 pounds of macaroni. Recorded in SJL with bracketed notation: “duplicates.”
TJ inclosed duplicates of this order in a letter of this date to Peter P. F. Degrand, not found, but recorded in SJL.
1. Preceding seven words interlined.
2. Preceding two words interlined.
3. Word added in margin.
4. Preceding two words interlined in place of “Claret.”
5. Manuscript: “Th:J.,” a slip of the pen for the initials of TJ’s grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph and meant to apply to the columns to the right of the vertical rule.
Index Entries
- alcohol; brandy search
- anchovies search
- Bergasse, Henry search
- brandy; French search
- brandy; TJ orders search
- claret (wine) search
- Degrand, Peter Paul Francis; and TJ’s orders from Dodge & Oxnard search
- Degrand, Peter Paul Francis; letter to accounted for search
- Dodge, Joshua; and wine and groceries for TJ search
- Dodge, Joshua; visits Monticello search
- Dodge & Oxnard (Marseille firm); and wine and groceries for TJ search
- Dodge & Oxnard (Marseille firm); letters to search
- food; anchovies search
- food; macaroni search
- Lédenon, France; wine from search
- macaroni; T. J. Randolph orders search
- macaroni; TJ orders search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); Visitors to; Dodge, Joshua search
- muscatel (wine) search
- oil; olive search
- olives; oil search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); orders food and wine from Europe search
- Rivesaltes, France; wine from search
- weather; effect on shipping search
- wine; claret search
- wine; for T. J. Randolph search
- wine; muscatel search
- wine; of Lédenon search
- wine; of Rivesaltes search
- wine; red search
- wine; TJ orders from Dodge & Oxnard search
- wine; white search