To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles Eppes, 16 September 1804

From John Wayles Eppes

Eppington Sep. 16th. 1804.

Dear Sir,

Our trip has been delayed so far beyond my expectations that I am induced again to write fearing you may feel some uneasiness—We have at length fixed on Friday next for setting out, but as my mother has determined to call on Mr. Baker who has been very much injured by a fall from his chair & is still confined, it will probably be tuesday before we reach Monticello—

My children continue in perfect health—Accept for yourself and all at Monticello the best wishes of affection—

Yours Sincerely

Jno: W: Eppes

PS. I forward this by the way of Petersburg to which place an opportunity offers today—

JWE.

RC (ViU: Edgehill-Randolph Papers); endorsed by TJ as received 20 Sep. and so recorded in SJL.

Mr. Baker: possibly Jerman Baker of Cumberland County, whose wife, Martha Bolling Eppes Baker, was the niece of TJ’s wife. Their son, John Wayles Baker, became a close friend of TJ’s grandson Francis Wayles Eppes (RS description begins J. Jefferson Looney and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Princeton, 2004- , 15 vols. description ends 6:65n; 9:278n).

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Title: To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles Eppes, 16 September 1804
Author: Eppes, John Wayles
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 16 September 1804

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Cite as: “To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles Eppes, 16 September 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-44-02-0358. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 44, 1 July to 10 November 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 400.]

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