BIB_ID
104713
Accession number
MA 1029.1-186
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1784 Jan. 15-1819 Aug. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
2 boxes (186 items), unbound ; size varies
Notes
The letter dated 3 June 1802 is complete in one leaf. The second sheet mentioned in the letter, in which Jefferson gives his itinerary, does not appear to survive, although Jefferson's retained copy is in the Coolidge Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
The letters written on birch bark are high reserve.
The two letters written on birch bark are housed in a separate box due to their fragility (MA 1029 Box 2).
The letters written on birch bark are high reserve.
The two letters written on birch bark are housed in a separate box due to their fragility (MA 1029 Box 2).
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Collection includes 175 autograph letters from Jefferson to his daughter Martha, 2 autograph letters written on birch bark (one to Martha, MA 1029.185, and one to her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph, MA 1029.186); 3 autograph letters to Anne Cary Randolph, Martha's daughter (MA 1029.122, MA 1029.128, and MA 1029.136); 5 polygraphic copies of letters to Martha (MA 1029.155, MA 1029.159, MA 1029.166, MA 1029.167, and MA 1029.180), and 3 copies of letters to Martha in the autograph of Nicholas P. Trist, husband of Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Jefferson Randolph (MA 1029.45, MA 1029.47, and MA 1029.170). Items in the collection are described in 186 individual records.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (31.4)
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