Margaret Bayard Smith to Thomas Jefferson, [by 6 March 1809] [document added in digital edition]

From Margaret Bayard Smith

[by 6 Mar. 1809]

I have seen in your Cabinet, a Geranium, which I understood you cultivated with your own hands. If you do not take it home with you, I entreat you to leave it with me. I cannot tell you how inexpressibly precious it will be to my heart. It shall be attended with the assiduity of affection & watered, with tears of regret; & each day as I attend it, will I invoke the best blessings of Heaven, on the most venerated of human beings!—

RC (MHi); written on a small scrap; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Smith mrs.” This document, located after the pertinent chronological volume was published, will appear in the concluding supplement to the print edition.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Margaret Bayard Smith to Thomas Jefferson, [by 6 March 1809] [document added in digital edition]
Author: Smith, Margaret Bayard
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 6 March 1809

Reference

Cite as: “Margaret Bayard Smith to Thomas Jefferson, [by 6 March 1809] [document added in digital edition],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-9001. [This document from The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is original to the digital edition. It was added on 2 September 2014.]

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