A Guide to the Thomas Jefferson Letters to Dr. Samuel Brown , April 28, 1814 and November 3, 1820 #10594

A Guide to the Thomas Jefferson Letters to Dr. Samuel Brown April 28, 1814 and November 3, 1820 Jefferson, Thomas, Letters to Dr. Samuel Brown, 1814 and 1820 10594

A Guide to the Thomas Jefferson Letters to Dr. Samuel Brown April 28, 1814 and November 3, 1820

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10594

Title

Thomas Jefferson Letters to Dr. Samuel Brown, April 28, 1814 and November 3, 1820

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of two autographed letters.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Letters to Dr. Samuel Brown, April 28, 1814 and November 3, 1820, Accession #10594 , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These letters were a gift to the Library from Mrs. Leonidas Deters, Jr. of Lyndon, Kentucky; Mrs. R. Bruce Farrer of Prospect, Kentucky; and Mr. George Garvin Brown III of New York, New York on June 4, 1984.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of two autographed letters, April 28, 1814 and November 3, 1820, from Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, to Dr. Samuel Brown of Natchez, Mississippi and later, of Lexington, Kentucky. Topics of interest in the first letter, sent to Natchez, Mississippi, include the death of loved ones and the overcoming of grief, the invention of a vapor bath, Napoleon Bonaparte, household industries necessitated by the War of 1812, and botany. The second letter, sent to Lexington, Kentucky, serves as an introduction of James Maury's son to Brown.