Thomas Jefferson to Philip P. Barbour, 12 October 1823
To Philip P. Barbour
Monticello Oct. 12. 23.
Dear Sir
I now inclose you the case of my grandson, Francis Eppes and will request your opinion at your first convenience after your return home. without knowing what is the fee for an opinion I inclose 10.D. subject to correction if not a sufficient one. I salute you with friendship & respect1
Th:J.
FC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover for one of Thomas Appleton’s letters to TJ of 2 Apr. 1823; in TJ’s hand; endorsed by TJ as a letter to “Barber Philip.” Recorded in SJL with the additional bracketed notation: “with 10.D.”
Missing letters from Barbour to TJ of 22 Oct. and 9 Nov. 1823 are recorded in SJL as received 28 Oct. and 10 Nov. 1823, respectively.
1. Reworked from “esteem.”
Index Entries
- Barbour, Philip Pendleton; and F. Eppes’s inheritance search
- Barbour, Philip Pendleton; letters from accounted for search
- Barbour, Philip Pendleton; letters to search
- Barbour, Philip Pendleton; TJ pays search
- Eppes, Francis Wayles (TJ’s grandson); inheritance of search
- Eppes, John Wayles (TJ’s son-in-law); estate of search