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- GLC#
- GLC00074
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- August 22, 1809
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- to Charles Willson Peale [painter] re: thanks for educating grandson
- Place Written
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Thomas Jefferson Randolph was Jefferson's favorite grandson and eventual executor of his estate. Jefferson writes to thank the artist Peale for educating his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph in the natural sciences. Randolph attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania and studied natural history at Peale's museum. Malone comments that TJR's course of study came nearer to a pre-medical curriculum than anything else. Malone, Jefferson the President: Second Term, pp. 612-613. Written in Monticello
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