BIB_ID
361390
Accession number
MA 1029.139
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1807 Mar. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.4 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.
The letter refers to the illness of Lemaire and John Freeman; Étienne Lemaire was Jefferson's mâitre d'hôtel and John Freeman, an enslaved man whom Jefferson rented from Dr. William Baker, worked in the dining room and as a footman.
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.
The letter refers to the illness of Lemaire and John Freeman; Étienne Lemaire was Jefferson's mâitre d'hôtel and John Freeman, an enslaved man whom Jefferson rented from Dr. William Baker, worked in the dining room and as a footman.
To "my dearest Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Relating details of Mr. Randolph's continuing recovery but "his strength returns so slowly that he certainly will not be able to undertake his journey on Monday as we had hoped. indeed I do not think a time can be fixed;" saying he is "now in the 7th day of a periodical head-ache, & I write this in the morning before the fit has come on. the fits are by no means as severe as I have felt in former times, but they hold me very long, from 9. or 10. in the morning till dark. neither Calomel nor bark have as yet made the least impression on them. indeed we have quite a hospital, one half below & above stairs being sick. Lemaire is seriously ill. John Freeman just getting about after a 6. weeks confinement with a broken jaw."
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