BIB_ID
361513
Accession number
MA 1029.178
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1817 Nov. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Watermark: Van der Ley (fragment) Watermark, infrared reflectography. Van der Ley. 361513wm_MA_1029_178_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
Requesting a cart leave Monticello on the 11th of December; saying he has "been two days engaged from sunrise to sunset with a surveyor in running round my lines, which have never before been run round. I find that one neighbor (Cobbs) has cleared one half of his field on my land, and been cultivating it for 20. years chiefly in corn, having cut down the line trees so as to leave it nearly impossible to find out the lines. they are by no means unravelled as yet;" reporting that his health is good except for a sprained shoulder.
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