your answer to the first: TJ to Ritchie & Gooch, 13 May 1822.

In addition to the enclosure printed below, at or around this time TJ also received copies of three other pertinent documents: (1) Harrison to Gabriel Duvall, Auditor’s Office, 10 Mar. 1809, which reads “I have examined and adjusted an account between the United States and Thomas Jefferson late Minister of the United States at Paris and find that the sum of one thousand, one hundred & forty eight Dollars is due from the United States unto the said Thomas Jefferson, being the value of Two thousand, eight hundred & Seventy Guilders brought provisionaly to his debit in the adjustment of his accounts at the Treasury  Report No 15,871 beyond the amount which appears to have been actually paid to him by the Bankers of the Department of State at Amsterdam and which sum is to be entered to the debit of Suspense account, a credit for the same having been passed to said account. As will appear on reference to the above mentioned Report No 15871 and to the Statement herewith transmitted for the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury thereon” (Tr in DLC; in a clerk’s hand, signed by Harrison; at head of text: “No 21,387 (Copy)”; at foot of text: “To Gabriel Duvall Esqr Comptroller of the Treasury”; endorsed by TJ: “Quietus on settlemt of my public accts as Minister to France”).

(2) Harrison’s certificate on proposed payment to TJ, [10 Mar. 1809], which reads “The United States, To Thomas Jefferson, late Minister of the U. States at Paris, Dr For this sum, being the value of 2870 guilders, brought to his debit in the settlement of his accounts at the Treasury,  Report No 15,871;—beyond the amount which appears to have been actually paid to him by the Bankers of the Department of State, at Amsterdam; at 40 cents  guilder Dolls. 1.148. The above statement is grounded on a bill credited by Mr Jefferson, as drawn by him on the Bankers at Amsterdam, under date of 21st October 1789, for Bo f. [i.e., ‘florins banco’] 2,800, equal with agio @ 2½ cent. to bo f. 2870: which Mr Jefferson supposes was sent to his Agent at Paris,—but who had not occasion to use it.—However this may be, it has never yet appeared as a charge against the United States, in any account rendered by those Bankers;—and, probably, never will.—It is, nevertheless, submitted whether some guarantee against all future demands may not be proper on the part of Mr Jefferson” (Tr in DLC: TJ Papers, 187:33192, 33195; in Patrick Ferrall’s hand, including Harrison’s signature at foot of text and, between statement and explanation of statement, copies of 10 Mar. 1809 attestations by Ferrall, of the Auditor’s Office, and Andrew Ross, of the Comptroller’s Office; undated; docketed by Harrison: “Copy of a certificate in favor of Thos Jefferson, as Minister to France, for the value of a certain bill drawn by him on the Bankers of the U. States at Amsterdam.—Taken from the Record of Reports kept in the Auditors Office; the original being lost or destroyed in the Registers Office”).

(3) Harrison to Joseph Anderson, Auditor’s Office, 29 May 1822 (his reply to the request of the secretary of the treasury), which reads “Agreeable to your request I now send you a copy of my letter to the Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures, in answer to a call made by him for information on the subject of a certain bill drawn by Mr Jefferson, as Minister to France, on the Bankers of the United States at Amsterdam—I also enclose a copy of my Certificate, as recorded in Report Book O, on which the value of said bill was refunded.—I have not the means of furnishing <any> further explanation of this transaction, unless a copy from my Records of the Report on Mr Jeffersons General Accot Currt, in Guilders, should be supposed to afford any that is material. In that Report he is provisionally charged with the bill in question” (Tr in DLC, in Harrison’s hand and signed by him, dateline beneath signature, at foot of text: “Jos. Anderson Esq Comptroller of the Treasury,” endorsed by TJ: “Harrison R. to the Comptroller”; Tr in MHi, address cover only, with PoC of TJ to Julius A. Bingham, 2 July 1822, on verso, addressed by Harrison: “The Comptroller of the Treasury”).