BIB_ID
361387
Accession number
MA 1029.71
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1795 July 31.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Watermark: Crowned shield with horn inside. Watermark, infrared reflectography. Crown, shield, horn 361387wm_MA_1029_71_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 "dear 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 "dear Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Telling her to invite Nancy Randolph, her husband's sister, to Monticello if "her company would be desireable"; reporting that he and the children are well, "but the house has been a mere hospital of sick friends"; mentioning "an unfavorable account of a field of corn of Mr. Randolph's on the road, as being yellow and ill-looking, supposed to be too thick planted"; asking for news of "what effect the springs have on [Mr. Randolph's] health."
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