Joseph C. Cabell’s Memorandum on the Introduction to the “Anas,” 9 April 1818
III. Joseph C. Cabell’s Memorandum on the Introduction to the “Anas”
Williamsburg. 9th April. 1818.
On 31st March 1818, I was drawn to Monticello by my duties as a Visitor of the Central College. Mr Jefferson then put into my hands for perusal a manuscript covering four and a half sheets of letter paper, entituled Explanations of the 3 volumes in marble paper. It was a commentary written by himself on Marshall’s life of Washington. Mr Jefferson observed that it would be published at his death by Col: Randolph, and his Grandson T. J. Randolph, to whom he should leave his papers: but he wished that the knowledge of the existence of this paper should not be confined to members of his own family; and that he should shew it to Mr Madison of Orange, late President of the U. States.1
Joseph C. Cabell
MS (ViW: TC-JP); entirely in Cabell’s hand; originally sealed shut with notation by Cabell on verso: “Memorandum by Joseph C. Cabell. To be opened at the death of Mr Jefferson of Monticello.”
1. Cabell here canceled “He requested.”
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