Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 18 February 1805

From George Jefferson

Richmond 18th. Febr. 1805

Dear Sir

I inclose you R. & W’s receipt for 24/. being for Mr. Madison’s subscription for the Enquirer.

I am Dear Sir Yr. Very humble Servt.

Geo. Jefferson

RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 21 Feb. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found.

R. & W’s receipt: Thomas Ritchie and William W. Worsley published the Richmond Enquirer (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 2:1138). On 11 Mch., TJ recorded in his financial memoranda that Madison had reimbursed him the four dollars (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 , 2:1148).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 18 February 1805
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    Jefferson, George
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    18 February 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 18 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0543. [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. 540.]

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