Autumn 2020 Catalogue

8 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 Extraordinary And Lengthy 1800 Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed To His Monticello Overseer Concerning The Death Of Jupiter, His Longtime Personal Slave And Close Friend, And Also Mentioning Two Nephews Of Sally Hemings 6. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed. Philadelphia, February 10, 1800. Single leaf (8 by 10-1/2 inches), signed on verso; pp. 2, custom clamshell box. $150,000. Click for more info Fascinating 1800 autograph letter signed by Thomas Jefferson to Monticello overseer Richard Richardson concerning the death of Jupiter (1743-1800), Jefferson’s longtime servant and friend. Jefferson also gives instructions to Richardson as to several management issues, asking that two of the nephews of Sally Hemings stay in the main house in order to guard it from intruders; recommending tasks for several other slaves, as well as proposing an efficient means of communication while he attended to his Vice Presidential duties in Philadelphia; and forwarding a bag of “a particular kind of nut, called the Paccan,” asking that they be planted in the nursery.