Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Boldly penned ALS signed “Th: Jefferson,” one page, 7.75 x 3.5, February 15, 1820. Letter to John Vaughan. In full: “I yesterday took the liberty of inclosing a draft for 400.D. with a request to remit it to Mr Appleton, and promised by the ensuing mail to send the letters of advice for him as to it’s [sic] disposition. This I now do, and therefore pray you to forward them to him with the remittance, and repeat to you my affectionate and respectful salutations.” Reverse is docketed and bears a partial cut-off franking signature to lower right. Intersecting folds, show-through from docketing on reverse, and light toning to borders, otherwise fine condition.
Looking for sculptors to carve the ionic and Corinthian capitals for the construction of the University of Virginia campus, Jefferson consulted with Thomas Appleton, the U.S. Consul General in Leghorn, Italy. Appleton recommended two sculptors: Michele and Giacomo Raggi. They arrived in 1819 on a three year contract. “The two Raggis are now at work with us,” wrote Jefferson to Appleton. “They could not in the beginning break themselves at once to the great differences of habits manners, living, & language here from those to which they had been habituated all their lives,” but were now “much more contented” only that they missed their wives. Here, Jefferson sends four hundred dollars to Appleton via Vaughn “for the purpose of bringing their wives over.” After the women declined to make the journey, the sculptors wished to back out of their contract. Displeased, Jefferson wrote a pointed letter to Michele, writing that after 15 months “we have nothing to shew but a single Ionic capitel [sic], and an unfinished Corinthian.” A fine letter epitomizing Jefferson’s love of architecture and commitment to the University of Virginia.
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