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Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Membership Diploma in the South Carolina Academy of Arts, 29 May 1821

Enclosure

Membership Diploma in the South Carolina Academy of Arts

South Carolina

Academy

of

Arts.

Charleston 29th May 1821.

Be it known that The Honorable Thomas Jefferson was this day unanimously elected an Honorary Member of the Academy of Arts—And entitled to all the Rights and privileges thereof.

Given under the Signature of the President, and countersigned by the Secretary.

J. R. Poinsett
 President.
John S. Cogdell
 Secretary.

MS (MHi); in an unidentified hand, signed by Joel R. Poinsett and Cogdell.

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Title
Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Membership Diploma in the South Carolina Academy of Arts, 29 May 1821
Authors
South Carolina Academy of Arts
Poinsett, Joel Roberts
Cogdell, John S.
Recipient
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
May–June 1821

Reference

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“Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Membership Diploma in the South Carolina Academy of Arts, 29 May 1821,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0243-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 17, 1 March to 30 November 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, p. 228.]