Mason L. Weems to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1821
From Mason L. Weems
Dumfries Octob. 14. —21
Very Honord Sir—
I have a favor to ask of you—
The great success I have had in my Amn Biographies has tempted me to add another great man to the list, i.e Wm Penn. I have been told that a piece of the Maple, immortalizd by his treaty with the Delaware Indians, converted into a Cup was sent to you—with some appropriate lines. Have you any objection to do my Book the honor to give those lines a place in it?
If you have not, please get one of Your family to transcribe them in a letter to me, at Philadelphia to care of Mathew Carey & Sons. Yours, with a good will that shall last long as the Sun & moon give light.
M. L. Weems.
I set out for Philada tomorrow, & may be there 10 or 12 days.
The widow of yr old Schoolmate & early friend Colo Jesse Ewell has the fever of the Season.
RC (NNPM); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; franked; postmarked Dumfries, 16 Oct.; endorsed by TJ as received 27 Oct. 1821 and so recorded in SJL; with Dft of TJ to Weems, [30 Oct. 1821], beneath endorsement.
Index Entries
- Delaware Indians search
- Ewell, Charlotte (Jesse Ewell’s wife); health of search
- Ewell, Jesse; family of search
- fevers; seasonal search
- Indians, American; Delaware search
- Mathew Carey & Sons (Philadelphia firm); and correspondence for M. L. Weems search
- Penn, William; relics associated with search
- Weems, Mason Locke; biography of W. Penn search
- Weems, Mason Locke; letters from search