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Thomas Jefferson
Memorandum on the Raggi Brothers
notes of a conversn with Michael Raggi
1819. Nov. 4.
| I agreed to advance, to be pd his wife in Leghorn | 150 |
| also for her passage viâ Bordeaux | 150 |
| 300 | |
| to advance to his bror (to attend his wife) for his passage | 150 |
| 450 | |
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The brother, who is an Ornalist, to be allowed 526. D. a year, repayin the passage money and to be engaged to the end of Michel's term. nothing was said about his board, or lodging. |
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| I agreed to have remitted to the wife of Giacomo | 150 D |
| 600 | |
- desire mr Appleton to propose 600. D. a year to the brother; he boarding & lodging himself
- to count from his arrival at Charlottesville.
- to repay his passage out of his wages.
- to be engaged to the end of Michel's term. viz. Feb. 17. 1822.
AD, ViU:TJ, 2p [1748] with docket "1819. Feb. 17. @ 526. D. a year each. 43.83 pr month
800 drs each recd 200. D. in part"; printed (extract), O'Neal, "Michele and Giacomo Raggi
at the University of Virginia," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 18:19. See TJ's
Memorandum on the Raggi Brothers, 17 February 1819-17 February 1820.
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