BIB_ID
361289
Accession number
MA 1029.118
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1805 May 6.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Watermark: J Larking. Watermark, infrared reflectography. J Larking. 361289wm_MA_1029_118_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 dearest Martha."
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 dearest Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Expressing his concern for her health; relating his wish that she and her family will be with him next winter; saying that "arrangements made upstairs since you were here, and additional furniture now providing will accomodate them all, and the necessity of lessening the fatigues of the table, which have borne too heavily on me, will oblige me to dine company less frequently, & to live more in a family way;" saying that Congress may "break up here a little earlier than usual" and making his preparations to return to Monticello in the middle of July.
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