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- GLC#
- GLC04525
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 1826/06/24
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- Jefferson's last letter to Mayor of Washington [small broadside on silk]
- Pagination
- 1 textile sheet
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
A printing of Jefferson's famous letter to the mayor of Washington, D.C., declining an invitation to a Fourth of July celebration. Jefferson hopes the Declaration to be a "signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessing of self government." Jefferson died on July 4.
Only 3 other copies. Printed on silk.
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