BIB_ID
418116
Accession number
MA 22268
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, author.
Display Date
[United States] : [publisher not identified], [1840s?]
Description
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 20.2 x 17.2 cm
Notes
"Written ten days before his death to R.C. Weightman, Esq., Mayor of the City of Washington, and chairman of a committee of arrangements who had invited him to be present at the celebration of the 4th of July, 1826, being the 50th year of American Independence"--Printed at top.
Dated: "Monticello, June 26, 1826."
Printed on silk.
Also published in 1826 under titles "Mr. Jefferson's letter to the Mayor of Washington" and "Thomas Jefferson's last letter."
From page 32 of Jefferson album.
Removed from Jacob Heaton's Record of friends scrapbook (MA 1305).
Dated: "Monticello, June 26, 1826."
Printed on silk.
Also published in 1826 under titles "Mr. Jefferson's letter to the Mayor of Washington" and "Thomas Jefferson's last letter."
From page 32 of Jefferson album.
Removed from Jacob Heaton's Record of friends scrapbook (MA 1305).
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