Francis B. Dyer to Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1823
From Francis B. Dyer
Charlottesville 8th June :23
Dear sir
Permit me to introduce to your notice Doctor De Reider from Vienna—He is performing the Tour of the United States, and is anxious to visit Monticello in passing—He is highly recommended as a Gentleman of talents and information—.
F. B. Dyer.
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Mr Jefferson Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 8 May 1823 from “Dyer Wm B.” received that day. Recorded in SJL as a letter of 8 May received 8 June 1823, with additional bracketed notation: “by Dr De Reyder.”
Francis B. Dyer (d. 1838), attorney, was a lifelong resident of Albemarle County. He joined the bar there in 1817 and subscribed $100 to Central College the same year. Dyer owned one slave in 1820 and five in 1830, when he was in his thirties. In 1831 he was named a commissioner to help enlarge the town of Scottsville, and in 1832 he was a major in an artillery regiment of Virginia militia. Dyer died at his home in Charlottesville (Master List of Subscribers to Central College, [after 7 May 1817], document 5 in a group of documents on The Founding of the University of Virginia: Central College, 1816–1819, 5 May 1817; DNA: RG 29, CS, Albemarle Co., 1820, 1830; [1829–30 sess.], 283 [22 Mar. 1831]; Richmond Enquirer, 8 Dec. 1832; Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, 4 Dec. 1838).
, 186, 381, 402;Johann Adam von Reider (ca. 1781–1864), physician, left Vienna after completing his studies and practiced medicine in Bucharest, 1810–21. He then traveled in Europe and North America studying contagious fevers, arriving in Baltimore in May 1823 from Kingston, Jamaica, and spending time in New York City. Reider eventually returned to Vienna, resumed the practice of medicine, and published several works on fever and epidemic diseases. He died in Vienna (Reider, Untersuchungen über die epidemischen Sumpffieber [1829], esp. vii–viii, 204; Adolph Carl Peter Callisen, Medicinisches Schriftsteller-Lexicon [1830–45], 15:442–3, 31:399; Baltimore American & Commercial Daily Advertiser, 19 May 1823; Vienna Fremden-Blatt, 16 July 1864; Canstatt’s Jahresbericht über die fortschritte der Gesammten Medicin in Allen Ländern im jahre 1864 [1865], 2:11).
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