From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 22 October 1803 [document added in digital edition]
To Caesar A. Rodney
[22 Oct. 1803]
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of The Hon-ble Mr Rodney to dine with him on Tuesday the 25th. inst—at half after three, or at whatever later hour the house may rise.
Oct. 22
The favour of an answer is asked.
RC (Memorabilia Expert, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008, item 45130); partially dated; printed form, with blanks filled by Lewis Harvie reproduced in italics; addressed by Harvie: “The Hon-ble Mr Rodney.”
Tuesday: Samuel L. Mitchill wrote to his wife of the dinner that he attended at the President’s House on 25 Oct. 1803. Rodney was there along with congressmen Isaac Anderson, William MacCreery, and Joseph H. Nicholson; senators James Jackson, Abraham Baldwin, George Logan, and Stephen R. Bradley; and John Wayles Eppes, Thomas Mann Randolph, and Harvie. Because the House of Representatives did not cease its work until late, dinner was delayed until “between 8 & 9” in the evening (Samuel L. Mitchill to Catharine Mitchill, 27 Oct. 1803, in MiU-C).