Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 March 1824
To Bernard Peyton
Monto Mar. 12. 24.
Dear Sir
The necessity of drawing on you for a considble sum obliging me to take the best review I can1 of our accounts since the last one rendered, I suppose 350.B. flour to have bn delivd on my acct from Th:J.R and 50.B. by T.E.R. which with the money deposited with you for me by Th:J.R. pay my balance of Dec. 31. and subseqt draughts & your other occnal2 disbursemts for me3 and leave in my favor a sum4 of between 4. & 500.D. but I am obliged to make5 in favor of Jas Leitch one draught for 541.17. and another for 50. I would have delayed this till the rect of my exact acct at the end of this month but I could not.6 I count on covering the overdrawns7 by 50.B. flour now due from T.E.R. and 50. more which will be due the last day of this month,8 both of which parcels I shall press him to hasten down
your two favrs of Mar. 1. & 8. have been duly recd. ever & affly yours.
Th:J.
Dft (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of John Moody to TJ, 20 Nov. 1821; at foot of text: “Colo B. Peyton”; endorsed by TJ.
th:j.r and t.e.r.: Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Eston Randolph.
A letter from TJ to James Leitch of 13 Mar. 1824 is recorded in SJL but has not been found. Leitch’s reply, also missing, is recorded in SJL as a letter misdated 12 Mar. 1823, with TJ’s bracketed notation “for 13,” received the latter day from Charlottesville.
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4. Reworked from “and leaves a balance in my favor.”
5. Word interlined in place of “draw.”
6. Sentence interlined.
7. Reworked from “covering this.”
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Index Entries
- flour; as rent search
- flour; transported to Richmond search
- Leitch, James; letters from accounted for search
- Leitch, James; letters to accounted for search
- Leitch, James; TJ pays search
- Peyton, Bernard; account with TJ search
- Peyton, Bernard; and TJ’s flour search
- Peyton, Bernard; letters to search
- Peyton, Bernard; payments made for TJ search
- Randolph, Thomas Eston (TJ’s cousin); account with TJ search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s financial transactions search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792–1875) (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s flour search
- rent; due from T. E. Randolph search
- Richmond, Va.; flour shipped to search