Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 28 July 1819
To Patrick Gibson
Poplar Forest July 28. 19.
[D]ear Sir
Your1 favors of July 5. and 21. came to me yesterday at this place. I am extremely chagrined at the omission of my note to Colo Nicholas, and indebted to you for saving the failure. I cannot account for this slip of attention but by the pressure & hurry for several days of winding up business at Monticello, and the journey & reopeni[ng] business again at this place. I now inclose you a renewal of the note to redeem the pledge of yours, and I also send renewed notes for the Virginia and US. banks. that for the latter bank endorsed by my grandson goes by this mail to Monticello for his endorsement and forwarding to you. you will probably recieve it on the 9th of August.—the calculation on the 16. Barrels of flour was right, I believe. their amount was 84.D. charges 24.30 leaving nett 59.70 which on 16.B. is 3.73 still I have no doubt they were sold as well as the market admitted. I have not heard whether the 50.B. from my milltenants have gone down. I fear the state of the river has not permitted it. yet I was obliged to draw on you on my departure from Albemarle in favor of mr Leitch for 157.98 and on my arrival here in favor of Jacob W. White for 150.D. these are the draughts mentioned in my letter of June 25. I now write to my grandson to get down as soon as possible as much flour of the new crop as will meet my taxes which will be called for about the close of Octob. I see little hope of better sales until the present trial of our merchants shall have winnowed the chaff from the grain and left it safe for the latter to come again into the market. I salute you affectionately
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; salutation faint; edge trimmed; at foot of text: “Mr Gibson”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosures not found.
TJ’s letter of this date to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph, not found, is recorded in SJL (see also TJ to Peter Cardelli, 29 July 1819).
1. Manuscript: “Yours.”
Index Entries
- Bank of the United States, Second, Richmond branch of; TJ’s loan from search
- Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- Farmers’ Bank of Virginia (Richmond); TJ’s loan from search
- flour; as rent search
- flour; price of search
- flour; sale of search
- flour; transported to Richmond search
- Gibson, Patrick; and payments made for TJ search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s flour search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Gibson, Patrick; and TJ’s loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Gibson, Patrick; letters to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Farmers’ Bank of Virginia search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; loan from Second Bank of U.S. search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; pays taxes search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business and Financial Affairs; sells flour search
- Leitch, James; TJ pays search
- merchants; TJ on search
- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); flour from search
- Nicholas, Wilson Cary (1761–1820); and TJ’s bank loans search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ visits search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); and TJ’s flour search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); endorses bank notes search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); letters to accounted for search
- Rivanna River; water level of search
- Shadwell mills; rent for search
- taxes; TJ pays search
- Tomahawk plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); overseer at search
- White, Jacob W.; as overseer at Tomahawk plantation search