BIB_ID
104740
Accession number
MA 1029.123
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1805 Oct. 13.
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Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.0 cm
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Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see main record for MA 1029 for details.
To "my dearest Martha."
Part of a large collection of letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see main record for MA 1029 for details.
To "my dearest Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Relating news of his journey back to Washington and the "present spell of warm weather" which has produced "a good deal of sickness," but expecting that as she is not coming until November, "the frosts before that time will render every thing safe;" telling her that "mrs Madison is still at Gray's ferry. altho' the part affected is healed, it is thought as yet too tender to venture on the journey."
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