BIB_ID
104523
Accession number
MA 157.37
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1809 Oct. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Elbridge Gerry esquire / Cambridge."
Endorsed on verso.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Endorsed on verso.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Introducing Thomas M.Randolph, "half brother to my son in law of that name" who will be attending Harvard; saying "his father was my most intimate friend having been brought up together almost from the cradle. from these different considerations I feel a just interest in his welfare & take the liberty of presenting him to you, as he will be in a land of strangers."
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