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
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."
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."
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Watermark: C Wilmott 1804.
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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