Th: Jefferson.
LETTER LXIV.--TO COLONEL MONROE, February 18, 1808
TO COLONEL MONROE.
Washington, February 18, 1808.
My Dear Sir,
You informed me that the instruments you had been so kind as to bring
for me from England, would arrive at Richmond with your baggage, and you
wished to know what was to be done with them there. I will ask the
favor of you to deliver them to Mr. Jefferson, who will forward them
to Monticello in the way I shall advise him. And I must intreat you
to send me either a note of their amount, or the bills, that I may be
enabled to reimburse you. There can be no pecuniary matter between
us, against which this can be any set-off. But if, contrary to my
recollection or knowledge, there were any thing, I pray that that may
be left to be settled by itself. If I could have known the amount
beforehand, I should have remitted it, and asked the advance only
under the idea that it should be the same as ready money to you on your
arrival. I must again, therefore, beseech you to let me know its amount.
I see with infinite grief a contest arising between yourself and
another, who have been very dear to each other, and equally so to me. I
sincerely pray that these dispositions may not be affected between you;
with me I confidently trust they will not. For independently of the
dictates of public duty, which prescribes neutrality to me, my sincere
friendship for you both will insure its sacred observance.
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