Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Eliza House Trist], 1790 Jan. 31.

Record ID: 
124531
Accession number: 
MA 1231
Author: 
Madison, James, 1751-1836.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)
Notes: 

The recipient was the daughter of Mary House, who ran a boarding house in Philadelphia that was patronized by many prominent Virginians; the receipient's husband was Nicholas Trist.

Summary: 

Concerning the return of Edmund Randolph (then Attorney General) mentioning the State Legislature, referring to Mr. Jefferson and requesting his correspondent to ask the latter for the writer's pedometer, and sending regards to Mrs. [Mary] House.