Letter signed Thomas Jefferson, Paris, to Madame de Tesse, August 27, 1789
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Identifier: D04175
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English
- Thomas Jefferson Collection | Letter signed Thomas Jefferson, Paris, to Madame de Tesse. Thanks her for the marble pedestal and its inscription. (2 pages, press copy) (The pedestal supported a bust of Jefferson by Ceracchi that was displayed in the vestibule of Monticello and later moved to Washington, D.C., where it was destroyed in the capitol fire in 1851) (See Julian Boyd, ed., <span class="italic emph">The Papers of Thomas Jefferson</span>, Vol. 15, pp. 364-365), 1789 Aug 27
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