BIB_ID
361424
Accession number
MA 1029.84
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1798 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.6 cm
Notes
Watermark: Crowned shield with horn inside over CT (lower fragment). Watermark, infrared reflectography. crown, shield, horn, CJ. 361424wm_MA_1029_84_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 "my 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 "my dear Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Expressing his desire to leave Philadelphia and return to Monticello and his family; telling her that his "letter of next week will probably bring orders for [his] horses"; noting that there will probably be a war against France, and adding that Mr. Randolph "will percieve that this certainty of war must decide the objects of our husbandry to be such as will keep to the end of it"; commenting on her son Jefferson's illness; adding that he has heard from her sister Maria, and she and her husband are leaving for Monticello on June 20th.
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