Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Garland, 4 August 1823
To Samuel Garland
Monticello Aug. 4. 23.
Sir
Having recieved from mr Barrett a letter of like import with yours of July 3. I have, in answer, informed him that myself, and my grandson Th: J. Randolph1 (into whose hands & management age and debility have obliged me to give up all my affairs) had before determined on a large sale of property in Bedford about Christmas: and that on reciept of your letter we had likewise determined that the whole of the debt to Miller should be paid of the immediate proceeds recieved at2 that sale. this will accordingly be done to yourself, mr Barrett or any other holder of the bond; which being within the term prescribed, will I trust be satisfactory. Accept my respectful salutations.
Th: Jefferson
RC (CSmH: JF-RAB); addressed: “Mr Samuel Garland Lynchburg”; franked; postmarked. Dft (DLC); on verso of reused address cover of John Vaughan to TJ, 31 Oct. 1822; endorsed by TJ.
Missing letters from Garland to TJ of 6 May and 2 July 1824 are recorded in SJL as received from Lynchburg on 11 May and 5 July 1824, respectively.
1. Name interlined in Dft.
2. Preceding two words added in margin of Dft in place of “of.”
Index Entries
- A. Robertson & Company (firm); TJ’s debt to search
- aging; TJ on his own search
- Barret, William; and TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Bedford County, Va.; proposed sale of TJ’s land in search
- Garland, Samuel; and TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Garland, Samuel; letters from accounted for search
- Garland, Samuel; letters to search
- health; debility search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sale of Bedford Co. land proposed search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; aging search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; debility search
- Miller, Boyd; and TJ’s debt to A. Robertson & Company search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and Bedford Co. land search