Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Wallden, 5 July 1805

From Mary Wallden

George town 5th July 1805

Honoured Thomas Jeffeson

I have taken the privelege of pertisiononing to your benevolent hands hoping no offence I am a person that has a famyly to maintain And are a stranger in the place and have Workeed very hard to maintain them untill I have unfortunete Ly have had a spell of syckness Which have rendered me unabled to maintain them when bread are So dear I am in a state of Surfering at the present and shall Surfer unless I receive Some Reliefe from your benevolent hands Sur look in to my surferings of your humble pertischoner

Mary wallden

RC (DLC); addressed: “Mr. thomas Jeffyson”; endorsed by TJ as received 8 July and so recorded in SJL.

Some Reliefe: on the day he received this letter TJ gave five dollars “in charity” to an unidentified recipient (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1158).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Wallden, 5 July 1805
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    Wallden, Mary
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    5 July 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Wallden, 5 July 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0697. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 693.]