Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 22 November 1823
To Bernard Peyton
Monticello Nov. 22. 23.
Dear Sir
You will recieve from either Mr Garrett or mr Brockenbrough a check for 4000.D. to be invested in a bill of exchange payable on account of Thos Appleton to mr Samuel Williams No 13. Finsbury square London, to whom you are requested to remit it, and with that to send the inclosed letter to mr Williams.
The bag of coffee which came to us was marked J. H. Peyton 120. ℔.1 we had used from it some days at the reciept of your letter of Oct. 23. and it then weighed 109. ℔
My flour is still in the mill, water-bound, there not having been as yet but one tide, & Jefferson’s absence prevented our being availed of that. I am very uneasy at it, as well on acct of your advances as that I have2 neighborhood debts for 2. or 300.D. pressing hard on me. I was obliged to draw for one of these two days ago 45.89 D in favor of F. Eppes. Yours with friendship and respect.
Th:J.
Dft (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Claudius F. Gojon to TJ, 12 May 1823; endorsed by TJ as a letter to “Peyton Bernard.” Enclosure: TJ to Samuel Williams, 22 Nov. 1823, and enclosures.
jefferson’s: Thomas Jefferson Randolph’s. The draft in favor of f. eppes was payment for a copy of Matthew Bacon, A New Abridgment of the Law (London, 1736–66, and other eds.; Sowerby, no. 1792) (MB, 2:1396, 1400).
1. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
2. Reworked from “it, having.”
Index Entries
- A New Abridgment of the Law (M. Bacon) search
- Appleton, Thomas; and capitals for University of Virginia search
- Bacon, Matthew; A New Abridgment of the Law search
- Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; as University of Virginia proctor search
- coffee; sent to TJ search
- Eppes, Francis Wayles (TJ’s grandson); and legal education search
- Garrett, Alexander; as University of Virginia bursar search
- law; books on search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Peyton, Bernard; and goods for TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; and University of Virginia search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Peyton, John Howe; and TJ’s coffee search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); T. J. Randolph visits search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); visits Poplar Forest search
- Shadwell mills; flour from search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; capitals for search
- Williams, Samuel (ca.1759–1841); and remittances to T. Appleton search