Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Brent, 6 November 1823

To Daniel Brent

Monticello Nov. 6. 23.

Dear Sir

I make my annual appeal to your kindness, by requesting the favor of you to give a passage under your cover to our representative at Paris of the inclosed letters to M. de la Fayett & mr Warden. a safe passage is of more importance than a speedy one. I pray you to be assured of my just1 sense of your repeated kindnesses and of my friendly esteem and respect

Th:J.

FC (DLC); on verso of reused address cover of William Lambert to TJ, 29 May 1823; in TJ’s hand; at foot of text: “Danl Brent esq.”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures: (1) TJ to Adamantios Coray, 31 Oct. 1823. (2) TJ to de Bure Frères, 31 Oct. 1823. (3) TJ to David Bailie Warden, 31 Oct. 1823. (4) TJ to Lafayette, 4 Nov. 1823. (5) TJ to Destutt de Tracy, [5 Nov. 1823]. Recorded in SJL with additional bracketed notation: “with the 5. precedg lres.”

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Brent, 6 November 1823
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Brent, Daniel
Date: 6 November 1823

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Brent, 6 November 1823,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-20-02-0238. [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. 289.]

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