Thomas Jefferson to LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 18 July 1823
To LeRoy, Bayard & Company
Monticello July 18. 23.
Messrs Leroy, Bayard & co.
I informed you in my letter of the 8th that although delayed by circumstances, I was not unmindful of the discharge of my remaining bond to Messrs Van Staphorsts; and my grandson is now on a journey to my estate in Bedford to expedite the fulfilment of this duty. but if I may be permitted to understand from your favor of the 10th that some delay might be admitted on payment of the interest, I shall be glad to avail myself of this indulgence for a short time only, perhaps a few months,1 and they shall not be many.2 I therefore now desire Colo Bernard Peyton, my correspondent in Richmond, to remit you 125.D. the interest of the last year, which will spare me from any sacrifice that the pressure even of a short time might occasion. Accept the assurance of my great esteem & respect.
Th: Jefferson
RC (PPAmP: DCAR, Sol Feinstone Collection). Dft (MoSHi: TJC-BC); on verso of reused address cover of William Lambert to TJ, 2 Dec. 1822; endorsed by TJ.
TJ’s grandson was Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
1. Reworked in Dft from “for a few months only.”
2. Preceding three words interlined in Dft in place of “be but few.”
Index Entries
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst search
- LeRoy, Bayard & Company (New York firm); and TJ’s debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst search
- LeRoy, Bayard & Company (New York firm); letters to search
- N. & J. & R. van Staphorst (Amsterdam firm); TJ’s debt to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); T. J. Randolph visits search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); visits Poplar Forest search