BIB_ID
361373
Accession number
MA 1029.65
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1793 Sept. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.7 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: Crowned shield with horn inside (upper fragment).
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Giving details of his plan to travel to Monticello; commenting on the increase in cases of yellow fever in Philadelphia, and noting that he thinks it "too unsafe" to go into town now; asking her to tell Mrs. Beverley Randolph that they expect her husband back soon, "the Indians having refused to meet our Commissioners."
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