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Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to his daughter Martha, 1793 May 26.

BIB_ID
361360
Accession number
MA 1029.59
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1793 May 26.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.6 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 Martha."
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Crowned shield with horn inside (upper fragment).
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Writing that Maria is with him but "not in flourishing health"; giving news of [Charles François] Dumouriez and his military action against the Prussians; sending her the names of people lately "butchered at Guadaloupe" and hoping that she doesn't know any of them from her time at school in France.