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To Thomas Jefferson from “Your Freind”, 18 February 1804

From “Your Freind”

[on or before 18 Feb. 1804]

Keep the Good of your Country at heart and do well and the Lord will reward you

your Freind

RC (DLC); undated; addressed: “Optimo Viro in hac patria Esquire qui est salvator patria sua et maximus Amicus humani Generis hoc Tempore—Federal City, Washington” (that is, “the Best Man in this country, Esquire; who is the savior of the human race at this time, a friend of his own country, and a great man”) and “mail”; stamped; above address in pencil in unidentified hand: “This must be intended for the present President of the US”; endorsed by TJ as received from an anonymous writer on 18 Feb. and “Latin inscription” and so recorded in SJL.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from “Your Freind”, 18 February 1804
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    18 February 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from “Your Freind”, 18 February 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0440. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 507.]