Photocopy of a chip of wood cut from "Shakespeare's chair", n.d.

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Photocopy of a chip of wood cut from "Shakespeare's chair", n.d.

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The wood was wrapped in a piece of paper on which is written in Thomas Jefferson's hand "a chip cut from an armed chair in the chimney corner in Shakespear's house at Stratford on Avon, said to be the identical chair in which he usually sat, if true like the relicts of the saints it must miraculously reproduce itself. cut by myself in 1785." A later [post 1803] note adds "cut by Gov. Thomas Mann Randolph and given to his daughter Mary J.R."

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Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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