BIB_ID
104530
Accession number
MA 6014
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, sender.
Display Date
Monticello, Virginia, 1924 July 18.
Credit line
Probably acquired by Pierpont Morgan.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 24.5 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Initialed "Th. J."
Draft copy mailed to himself and postmarked.
Addressed (in Sigourney's hand) to "Thomas Jefferson, Monticelo / Milton / U.S. America. Virginia."
Stamped "New York Feb 11", "Free", and "Ship."
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 23 of Jefferson album.
This letter was written on the conjugate leaf (now detached) of a letter from Mrs. Sigourney, (see MA 6013).
Draft copy mailed to himself and postmarked.
Addressed (in Sigourney's hand) to "Thomas Jefferson, Monticelo / Milton / U.S. America. Virginia."
Stamped "New York Feb 11", "Free", and "Ship."
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 23 of Jefferson album.
This letter was written on the conjugate leaf (now detached) of a letter from Mrs. Sigourney, (see MA 6013).
Summary
Discussing his role in the founding of the nation, noting "I was one only of many, very many indeed who exerted their best endeavors in the accomplishment of that change in our condition. Its success will make it the greatest event in human history." Concerning treatment of Native Americans, commending Sigourney's "advocation of the Indian rights," and mentioning that he agrees with all her "sentiments in their favor." Stating that his "hopes in the South are dampened by the transactions of the late war which in destroying many of them have produced in the rest as implacable a hatred of us as to revolt them," and noting "I am not apt to despair; yet I see not how we are to disengage ourselves from that deplorable entanglement, we have the wolf by the ear & feel the danger of either holding or letting him loose."
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