Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 18 July 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monto July 18. 23.
Dear Sir
When I wrote my lre of the 9th I supposed1 a balance in your hands sfft to answer the calls of that letter, not aware of the curtails which had or would so soon absorb that balance as appears by your lre of the 10th.2 otherwise some of those calls should have been postponed. I hope that since that you have recd more of my tobo and the rather as Jefferson has for some time been in Bedford to expedite them. not knowing how this may be it gives me great uneasiness to be obliged to ask you to remit for me immediately the sum of 125.D. to Messrs Leroy Bayard & co. of N.Y. which presses. ever & affectionately yours
Th:J.
Dft (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Robert Greenway to TJ, 3 Dec. 1822; at foot of text: “Colo B. Peyton”; endorsed by TJ.
jefferson: Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
1. TJ here canceled “you had.”
2. Preceding eight words interlined.
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
- N. & J. & R. van Staphorst (Amsterdam firm); TJ’s debt to search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s bank notes 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); tobacco grown at search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); as manager of Poplar Forest search
- Richmond, Va.; tobacco shipped to search
- tobacco; grown at Poplar Forest search
- tobacco; transported to Richmond search