BIB_ID
361280
Accession number
MA 1029.114
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1804 Dec. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Madame Yrujo is the wife of the Spanish Minister to the United States; Madame Merry is the wife of the British representative to the United States; Madame Pichon is the wife of the French ambassador to the U.S.
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."
Madame Yrujo is the wife of the Spanish Minister to the United States; Madame Merry is the wife of the British representative to the United States; Madame Pichon is the wife of the French ambassador to the U.S.
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
Apologizing for not writing more often; relating that "Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place is remarkably dull. very few ladies have come on this winter, & we have lost Mad'mes Yrujo, Pichon, Merry and Law. the theatre fails too for want of actors."
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