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Autograph letter signed : Washington, to his daughter Martha, 1804 Jan. 23.

BIB_ID
361258
Accession number
MA 1029.110
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1804 Jan. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Anthony Merry served as the British representative to the United States from 1803-1806; Carlos Martinez de Yrujo served as the Spanish Minister to the U.S. from 1796-1807.
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 Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Discussing the snowstorm and referring to the light schedule of Congress due to the weather; relating that Congress will be hosting a dinner "on the acquisition of Louisiana. they determine to invite no foreign ministers, to avoid questions of etiquette, in which we are enveloped by Merry's & Ynijos families. as much as I wished to have had yourself & sister with me, I rejoice you were not here. the brunt of the battle now falls on the Secretary; ladies, who are dragged in the dirt of every federal paper. you would have been the victims had you been here, and butchered the more bloodily as they would hope it would be more felt by myself. it is likely to end in those two families putting themselves into coventry until they receive orders from their courts to acquiesce in our principles of the equality of all persons meeting together in society & not to expect to force us into their principles of allotment into ranks & orders.