David M. Randolph (ca. 1759–1830) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 October 1823
From David M. Randolph (ca. 1759–1830)
Ashton 17 October 1823
Dear Sir,
The most extravagant estimate requires something less than thirty Dollars for the expences you woud remunerate; you therefore will have the goodness to excuse my returning to you, Twenty. With genial truth I seize this occasion to express the gratification I derive from a restoration of social harmony with yourself and family; and, I pray you to believe, that as it always was a source of affectionate sensibilities, so is it now, almost the exclusive charm to a continuance of Life and Hope—
D M Randolph
RC (MHi); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr. Care of T. M. Randolph”; endorsed by TJ as received 20 Oct. 1823 and so recorded in SJL.
TJ had paid Randolph $50 on 12 Oct. 1823 to remunerate him for his service as a “witness agt. the Hudsons” (MB, 2:1399). His dismissal of Randolph as United States marshal for the Virginia district in 1801 and political differences thereafter help explain the disruption of social harmony between the two men, who were distant cousins and also connected by the marriage of Randolph to Mary Randolph, the sister of TJ’s son-in-law Thomas Mann Randolph (ANB, 18:132).
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