BIB_ID
361422
Accession number
MA 1029.83
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1798 May 17.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.6 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."
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Watermark: 1794.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Expressing his love for her and her family, and reiterating his desire "to find [him]self in the only scene where, for [him], the sweeter affections of life have any exercise"; explaining that he does not know when he will be able to leave; saying that he is going to write to her sister Maria and recommend that she go to Monticello "as soon as [his] stores ... shall be sent on from Richmond"; worrying that her children may have forgotten him.
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