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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
Watermark: Crowned shield with horn inside (upper fragment). Watermark, infrared reflectography. Crown, shield, horn. 361360wm_MA_1029_59_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 dear Martha."
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.