Thomas Jefferson Papers

Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 6 October 1823

From Bernard Peyton

Richd 6 Octr 1823

Dear Sir,

Agreeable to your standing request, hand herewith, statement Your quarterly to date, which hope & believe will be found correct

I have a late letter from our mutual friend Th: Cox Esqe, of Plymouth N. Carolina, in which he desires me to say to you, that your order, for Scuppernong Wine, had been received, & should be duly attended to—

Agreeable to your request, have procured you, & this day forward to Charlottesville, care Jacobs & Raphael, a Bag of choice old white Java Coffee, which I hope will reach you safely, & prove good—   I find there is no Lemon, or Lime juice, mixed with spirit & sugar, to be had here, and to prepare such, $3½ per Gallon, is asked, by the Barrel, which is out of the question—

Your note at Va Bk: will soon be due, when $125 curtail, must be paid on it, of course the one you sent me, for $1125, will be of no use, & I return it under cover, please send me one for $1,000, & each time after, reducing $100 every 60 days, which is the order of the Directors—

I am grieved to hear of the loss sustained, by Frost, in your Tobacco crop, it is really a serious calamity to every body at all concerned in trade, in that article. I hope the injury is not so great as it has been represented—

[. . .]

RC (MHi); bottom torn; addressed: “Mr Thomas Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 6 Oct.; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Oct. 1823 from Peyton and so recorded (with mistaken 9 Oct. date of composition) in SJL. Enclosures not found.

Index Entries

  • alcohol; spirits search
  • Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
  • coffee; East India (Java) search
  • coffee; sent to TJ search
  • Cox, Thomas; and scuppernong wine search
  • food; lemon juice search
  • food; lime juice search
  • Jacobs & Raphael (Charlottesville firm); and packages for TJ search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
  • lemons; juice search
  • limes; juice search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); frost damage search
  • Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); tobacco crop at search
  • Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s tobacco search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and wine for TJ search
  • Peyton, Bernard; letters from search
  • scuppernong (wine) search
  • spirits (alcohol) search
  • sugar; in mixed drinks search
  • tobacco; grown at Monticello search
  • weather; frost search
  • wine; scuppernong search