Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Sheaff, 6 December 1804

To Henry Sheaff

Washington Dec. 6. 04.

Sir

I am tardy in making you the present remittance; but I could not help it. I now inclose you a note of the US. bank here on that at Philadelphia for one hundred & thirty two dollars twenty five cents, the amount of the last wines sent me, and tender you my friendly salutations & respects.

Th: Jefferson

132. D 25 c

PoC (MHi); at foot of text: “Mr. Henry Sheaff”; endorsed by TJ. Notation in SJL: “132.25.”

last wines sent me: see TJ to Sheaff, 11 June. In his financial memoranda, TJ recorded the payment to Sheaff on 6 Dec. “for wines furnished 4. months ago” (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 , 2:1141).

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    From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Sheaff, 6 December 1804
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    6 December 1804

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Sheaff, 6 December 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0140. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 135.]

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