Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson to Edward Thornton, 5 November 1802

To Edward Thornton

Th: Jefferson asks the favor of Mr. E. Thornton’s company to dinner and chess on Monday next, the 8th. Inst., at half after three.

Friday Novr. 5th. 1802.

The favor of an answer is requested.

RC (Stanley F. Horn, Nashville, Tennessee, 1958); in Meriwether Lewis’s hand.

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    Thomas Jefferson to Edward Thornton, 5 November 1802
    Author
    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Thornton, Edward
    Date
    5 November 1802

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    “Thomas Jefferson to Edward Thornton, 5 November 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-38-02-0573. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 38, 1 July–12 November 1802, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, p. 641.]

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