BIB_ID
361442
Accession number
MA 1029.90
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1800 February 11.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.8 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
Asking Mr. Randolph or Martha "to give orders at the proper time in March for the bottling [of Jefferson's] cyder"; also asking Martha to send a sample of sheeting to him; describing "the prettiest improvement in the Forte piano"; telling her that he received news from Mr. Eppes that her sister Maria's baby died, and Maria herself is "still ill"; anticipating his return home; calling politics "such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them"; reporting that he has "changed [his] circle [in Philadelphia] according to [his] wish; abandoning the rich, & declining their dinners & parties, and associating entirely with the class of science."
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