Thomas Jefferson letters, 1810-1814 1810 April 13-1814 December 24

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Thomas Jefferson letters, 1810-1814 1810 April 13-1814 December 24

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Three letters and a broadside including: 1) An autograph letter, signed, 1814 December 24, from Thomas Jefferson to John McAllister concerning "3 or 4 sets" of eyeglasses, which the recipient furnished the president.-- Special Collections, Library, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 1981, p. 51; 2) A typed letter, signed, 1915 March 31, from W. K. Bixby to E.L. Opie, Dean of Washington Univ. Med. School concerning his gift of the 1814 Jefferson letter to John McAllister about spectacles; 3) An autograph letter, signed, 1810 April 13, from Lyman Spalding to Thomas Jefferson concerning the enclosure of a broadside: 4) Spalding's "Bill of Mortality of Portsmouth, N.H. for 1809".

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Opie, Eugene L. (Eugene Lindsay), 1873-1971

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Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931

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McAllister, John, 1753-1830

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McAllister, John, 1786-1877

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Spalding, Lyman, 1775-1821

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...