Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 8 October 1823
To Alexander Garrett
Monticello Oct. 8. 23.
Dear Sir
I return you mr Thomas’s account, with a request that he will bring it down to the last day of Sep. and analyse it as well as he can under these three heads. 1. monies collected; 2. the amount secured by bond or acknolegement written or verbal; 3. the amount of what is due from subscribers not yet applied to1 dead, removed out of the state, or whom he considers insolvent. under the 2o head he may include not only those who positively promised, but those who expressed doubtfully, or conditionally, or who would say neither yea, nor nay, or who even refused; because we think the expressions noted amount to an acknolegement of the debt. Drury Wood’s case can be easily ascertained. I subjoin two resolutions of the board respecting mr Thomas. your’s affectionately
Th: Jefferson
FC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of William Pannill, John McRae, and John Pollard to TJ, 17 June 1823; in TJ’s hand; with enclosed extract subjoined; at foot of text: “Mr Garrett”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure: extract from Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 6 Oct. 1823. Other enclosure not found.
1. Preceding four words interlined.
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