Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Moore, 1 June 1805

From Thomas Moore

6th. mo 1st. 1805

Thos. Jefferson President of the United States. has permission to use one of my patent Refrigerators of any size and for any purpose he may think proper.

Thos. Moore

RC (DLC); printed form, dated by Moore and with blanks filled by him reproduced in italics; endorsed by TJ.

On 18 July 1804, TJ paid Isaac Briggs $13 for one of Moore’s refrigerators (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 , 2:1132; Vol. 37:650-1).

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