BIB_ID
361364
Accession number
MA 1029.60
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1793 June 10.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.5 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."
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: Edmeads & Pine.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Congratulating her on the arrival of the mockingbird: "learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs"; hoping that the multiplication of cedar trees will attract more mockingbirds; informing her that his furniture arrived safely in Richmond; noting that "Maria is here, but too lazy to write. She says in excuse that you do not write to her"; referring to a letter from Beverly Randolph and the postponement of treaty negotiations at Niagara.
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