BIB_ID
361164
Accession number
MA 1029.21
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1791 January 20.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.3 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."
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Watermark: IV
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Reporting that her "acquaintances in Panthemont complain excessively about [her] inattention to them"; noting that "there has been a riot in Paris in which M. de Castrie's household furniture was destroyed"; discussing his efforts at unpacking his things from Paris and telling her that he has books "to present to Mr. Randolph"; complaining about the cold in Philadelphia and wishing "for some stockings of cotton and hair's fur knit together"; asking her to get someone to knit the stockings, and requesting that they be "very large."
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