BIB_ID
361366
Accession number
MA 1029.129
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1806 July 6.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Watermark: C Wilmott 1804. Watermark, infrared reflectography. C Wilmott 1804. 361366wm_MA_1029_129_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 and proposing a date to visit her; saying"absence from you becomes every day more and more insupportable and my confinement here more disgusting. I have certainly great reasons for gratitude to my constituents. they have supported me as cordially as I could ever have expected; and if their affairs can preserve as steady a course for two years to come, and I can then carry into retirement the good will they have hitherto bestowed on me, the day of retirement will be the happiest I have now to come. it will relieve me from a load of care too burthensome for my time of life, and it will restore me to those domestic scenes where alone I can be happy; relating news Miss Clifton "nearly losing her life by a small piece of biscuit lodging in her throat..."
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