PrC (MHi); at foot of text: “M. Le Tombe”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. Enclosure: TJ to Létombe, 27 July.

R. Gatier of Philadelphia, knowing that Joseph Rapin wanted to return to that city, where his family was, but unaware of TJ’s decision to hire Étienne Lemaire, wrote TJ on 26 July to offer his services as “Maitre d’hotelle.” Gatier was a stranger to TJ, and that brief letter is the only correspondence to or from him recorded in SJL. He did not state his qualifications for the position, but named Honoré Julien and Noël De Clary to vouch for him. De Clary was “garçon de cuisine” at the President’s House. His name first appeared in TJ’s financial memoranda during July 1801, although TJ noted wages for an unnamed person as “garçon de cuisine” for the period 26 Apr.-26 May. TJ recorded De Clary’s name simply as “Noel” and paid him wages of $12 per month plus a drink allowance of $2. He last appears by name in TJ’s financial memoranda in May 1803, after which TJ stopped listing the staff members’ names when they were paid each month (RC in MHi, in French, at foot of text: “à Mr. Thomas Jefferson President Des Etats Unis,” endorsed by TJ as received 6 Aug. and so recorded in SJL; MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1042, 1045, 1054, 1056, 1061, 1077, 1100).