Oct 11, 2007 - Sale 2123

Sale 2123 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
SIGNER JEFFERSON, THOMAS. Autograph Note Signed, in the third person within the text, and addressed in his hand to a Mr. Sigourney, declining an invitation to the Sigourneys, and inviting them "to dine with him at Monticello tomorrow." 1 page, folded 8vo sheet with integral address leaf; left margin separated at vertical fold running through text without loss, folds, seal tear in address leaf, edges and vertical fold reinforced with silk verso. Np, 23 May 1825

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"Th. Jefferson presents his respects to Mr. and Mrs. Sigourney and his regrets that the state of his health confines him to his house he would have had the pleasure of calling on them in Charlottesville. Under this disability he asks the favor of them to dine with him at Monticello."