BIB_ID
361399
Accession number
MA 1029.77
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1797 April 9.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.7 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."
With trace of a seal.
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."
With trace of a seal.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: 1794.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Telling her he approves of her "resolution to have the children inoculated"; reporting that he is "called to Philadelphia to a meeting of Congress the 15th of May"; encouraging her to come to Monticello with the children before he leaves in early May; asking her to tell Maria that he has "made a new law, which is only to answer letters. It would have been her turn to have received a letter had she not lost it by not writing."
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