Thomas Jefferson to Tarlton Saunders, 11 August 1823
To Tarlton Saunders
Monticello Aug. 11. 23.
Sir
I ought ere this to have made payment1 of my first bond of 1200.D. to mr Lyle and I am thankful for your forbearance to remind me of it. you know I presume of the great responsibility for which I became liable to the bank of the US. on account of the decd Colo Nicholas, which has deranged all my calculns as to my own affairs. myself and my gr. son Th:J.R. (into whose hands and managemt age and debility have obliged me to commit all my affairs) have determined to make a large sale of property at the next Christmas: and that from the immediate proceeds of this sale my first payment to you shall be made; and the relief given me by this sale will leave me without danger of failing in my subsequent payments to you.2 Accept the assurance of my great esteem & respect
Th:J
FC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of John Campbell to TJ, 4 Nov. 1822; in TJ’s hand; at foot of text: “mr Tarleton Saunders”; endorsed by TJ.
An undated letter, not found, from Thomas Jefferson Randolph (th:j.r.) is recorded in SJL as received 16 Aug. 1823.
1. Manuscript: “paymint.”
2. Preceding two words interlined.
Index Entries
- aging; TJ on his own search
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; and W. C. Nicholas’s debts search
- Bedford County, Va.; proposed sale of TJ’s land in search
- Henderson, McCaul & Company (Scottish firm); TJ’s debt to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; bond with J. Lyle (1798–1850) search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; debt to Henderson, McCaul & Company search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; endorses notes for W. C. Nicholas search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; sale of Bedford Co. land proposed search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; aging search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; debility search
- Lyle, James (1798–1850); TJ’s bond with search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); TJ endorses notes for search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and Bedford Co. land search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letters from accounted for search
- Saunders, Tarlton; and TJ’s debt to Henderson, McCaul & Company search
- Saunders, Tarlton; letters to search