BIB_ID
361427
Accession number
MA 1029.152
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1808 Feb. 2.
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Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Don Joseph Yznardi was the Spanish Chargé d'Affaires in Washington; Richard S. Hackley was married to Harriet Randolph, sister of Thomas Mann Randolph and would serve as Vice-Consul under Yznardi.
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 dearest Martha."
Don Joseph Yznardi was the Spanish Chargé d'Affaires in Washington; Richard S. Hackley was married to Harriet Randolph, sister of Thomas Mann Randolph and would serve as Vice-Consul under Yznardi.
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 dearest Martha."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Concerning an eventual successor to Yznardi and discussing the possibility that the successor might be Mr. Hackley; referring to an application by Tarleton Webb for a place as a midshipman saying "we shall not have any large vessels during the prevalence of present opinions and the command of a gun boat is a poor prospect;" discussing repairs to a dam which he would like to be under the supervision of Mr. Randolph; cautioning her in her correspondence with Mr. Hackley "not to commit my name, of which Meade could make great use;" suggesting she encourage him to cultivate the friendship of Yznardi "as he might be induced by that to make an opening for him."
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