Charles Johnston to Thomas Jefferson, [5 December 1817]
From Charles Johnston
Friday morning [5 Dec. 1817]
Chs Johnston requests the pleasure of M[r] Jeffersons Company to dinner tomorrow
RC (DLC: TJ Papers, 213:37962); with PoC of TJ to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 May 1818, on verso; partially dated at foot of text; edge trimmed; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr.”
On friday, 5 Dec. 1817, Frances Langhorne wrote her sister Sarah T. Massie from Sandusky, their brother-in-law Charles Johnston’s estate near Lynchburg, that “Mr Johnston intends having a big dinner tomorrow Mr Jefferson is to be of the party and to dine on venson at least that is a dish they seem to admire most” (ViHi: Massie Papers).