BIB_ID
360486
Accession number
MA 1029.10
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1787 June 1.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Watermark: M. Johannot & Fils around a central cockle shell, fragment. Watermark, infrared reflectography. M. Johannot & Fils cockle shell 360486wm_MA_1029_10_Jefferson_WM_IR.jpg
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 dear Patsy."
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 dear Patsy."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Hoping her health is reestablished; noting that "the moment and place of [her sister's] arrival" in France are "still uncertain"; asking her "to learn all [her] old tunes over again perfectly" so he can hear them on her harsichord when it arrives; telling her that he hopes to arrive in Paris on the 12th or 15th.
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