BIB_ID
104524
Accession number
MA 157.38
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1813 Jun. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Elbridge Gerry / Vice President of the US / at Washington."
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.
With an autograph copy of Gerry's reply on the verso of the address panel dated "Washington 6 July 1813."
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.
With an autograph copy of Gerry's reply on the verso of the address panel dated "Washington 6 July 1813."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Expressing his pleasure at seeing him "once more come forward on the stage of the nation. I have ever thought the post you now occupy the most agreeable one the nation can give, & very far preferable to that which it's highest favor confers;" expressing his hopes that during a Congressional adjournment he "might think a tour thro some parts of this state not merely supervacaneous. were this to happen, I had hoped that an acquaintance of half a century & a fellow laborer in good works might be an object in the tour. in no part of it could you be received with more pleasure, or retained with greater cordiality."
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