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- GLC#
- GLC06511
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1814/06/29
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- to James Mease re: origins of the Taliaferro apple, its quality, cyder
- Place Written
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Responding to a letter about Hughes's crab apple. (Spelling Mease's name "Maese.") He tells the origins of the Taliaferro apple by Major Taliaferro about 60 years before, near Williamsburg, and which he called the Robertson apple. When Taliferro "made a cask of cyder [it was]... the finest they had ever seen." Jefferson compares the Hughes crab apple to the Taliaferro and finds the latter "has more body, is less acid, and comes nearer to the silky Champaigne than any other." Written in Monticello
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