BIB_ID
104583
Accession number
MA 553.42
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1799 Feb. 1.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and franked with Jefferson's signature to "Elisha Boudinot esq. / Newark."
Endorsed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Endorsed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Summary
Concerning three shares of stock owned by Baron Geismar in a coppermine "in your neighborhood;" asking the price per share for which they could be sold and whether they could be sold "with a reservation to me, till I shall return home & be able to consult a former letter of Baron Geismar's which I left there, to declare the sale then to be off or on?" informing him he has the power of attorney to act on Baron Geismar's behalf.
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