Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton and Others, 23 April 1802

To William Thornton and Others

Friday Apl. 23. 1802.

Th: Jefferson requests the favor of Doctr. & Mrs. Thornton & Mrs. Breadeau to dine with him on Monday next, the 26th. Inst. at half after three oclock.—

The favor of an answer is asked.

RC (DLC: William Thornton Papers); in Meriwether Lewis’s hand; addressed: “Doctr. Thornton.” Not recorded in SJL.

William Thornton, his wife Anna Maria Thornton, and her mother Ann Brodeau were frequently invited to DINE at the President’s House; see Charles T. Cullen, “Jefferson’s White House Dinner Guests,” White House History, 17 (2006), 39, and Vol. 34:103.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton and Others, 23 April 1802
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Thornton, William
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    23 April 1802

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to William Thornton and Others, 23 April 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-37-02-0250. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 37, 4 March–30 June 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 314.]

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