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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 6 unpaginated pages with facsimile letter tipped in. Explanatory note by Alfred Sutro. Folio (13 1/4" x 10 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers with title tipped to front wrapper. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 1. The letter here reproduced was written by Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Patsy while she was at school in Philadelphia, waiting to leave for Europe with her father. He had been appointed by Congress to assist Benjamin Franklin and John Adams in negotiating treaties of commerce with European states. Patsy was eleven years old at the time. Mary Jefferson, Patsy's younger sister, was "the little lady" mentioned in the letter. Condition: Original sales information from Heritage Bookshop laid in. Blue wrappers, stitched together with chips around edges, separating along stitching tear to front wrapper in good condition but internally very good.
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.