Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 2 August 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monto Aug. 2. 23.
Dear Sir
I am sollicited1 for a charity in Philadelphia which I cannot refuse, yet can illy afford. will you be so good as to remit for me 25.D. to a mr J. H. Hall of Phila.
Yours affectly
Th:J.
Dft (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of James Smith (of Ohio) to TJ, 4 Nov. 1822; endorsed by TJ as a letter to “Peyton B.”
1. Word interlined in place of “pressed.”