Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jefferson family and Nicholas P. Trist [manuscript], n.d.

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Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the Jefferson family and Nicholas P. Trist [manuscript], n.d.

Manuscripts, books, pictures, and music of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Jefferson family and Nicholas P. Trist. Items include an itinerary; three small specimens of Jefferson's writing; Jefferson's ivory memorandum tablets; a fanciful picture of Monticello; a letter to Richard Richardson, 1800 March 31; a letter to Jeremiah Goodman, 1814 February 3; a photostat of the "Watson-Rhodes" document; and a colored caricature "The happy effects of that grand system." Also a trunk containing Nicholas P. Trist papers; the contents of Trist's writing desk; a notebook of extracts from Mrs. Hemans poems, etc; two cookbooks; a description of spectacles; photographs of Nicholas P. Trist; an engraved certificate of the Imperiale Reale Accademia Economico-Agraria; Trist? notebook of mementoes of Jefferson; a notebook "Prima adolescentia; a ledger Charlottesville, 1820 March 2; 12 separate volumes of music, chiefly of Jefferson's daughter; an "Original plan of Monticello"; and Burke's Plan of Monticello. The collection also includes a 1763 March 30 Fauquier land grant for Albemarle County property.

1 reel microfilm : negative ; 35mm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7924656

University of Virginia. Library

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