Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : New York, to his daughter Martha, 1790 June 6.

BIB_ID
360500
Accession number
MA 1029.14
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1790 June 6.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Watermark: Horn inside a shield over letters "GR", fragment. Watermark, infrared reflectography. shield, horn, GR. 360500wm_MA_1029_14_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 daughter."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Noting how happy he will be to see Martha and her husband "fixed in Albemarle"; reporting that he had "an attack of [his] periodical head-ache, very violent for a few days"; telling her that he is going on a sailing party of three or four days with the President.