BIB_ID
360489
Accession number
MA 1029.12
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1790 April 4.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
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 daughter."
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 daughter."
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Shield over JAN KOOL, fragment.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Reporting that he saw her friends Mrs. Trist and Miss Rittenhouse in Philadelphia; describing his difficulties in obtaining a "tolerable house" in New York City; complaining that he "feel[s] heavily the separation from" Martha and "dear Poll"; emphasizing that since she is married, "the happiness of [her] life depends now on the continuing to please a single person. To this all other objects must be secondary."
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