Thomas Jefferson to James Westhall Ford, 8 September [1823]

To James Westhall Ford

Sep. 8.

Th:J. to mr Ford

The President will recieve you tomorrow or after at [yo]ur convenience, & sit for his portrait. I will give you any [as]sistance necessary towards carrying your implements Etc.

RC (ViU: TJP); partially dated at foot of text; edge trimmed; addressed: “Mr Ford”; with Thomas Jefferson Randolph’s signed notation, dated 3 Mar. 1858, adjacent to dateline: “The above note is in the hand writing of the former President of the US.” Not recorded in SJL.

The president was James Monroe.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson to James Westhall Ford, 8 September [1823]
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Ford, James Westhall
Date: 8 September 1823

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson to James Westhall Ford, 8 September [1823],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-20-02-0143. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 20, 1 July 1823 to 31 March 1824, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023, p. 141.]

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