Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 24 October 1801

From John F. Mercer

Annapolis Oct. 24th. 1801—

Dear Sir

It is with great regret that we have given up the hopes of seeing yourself & Mr. Madison at West River, but concluding at length that your promise had escaped yr. Memory, Mrs. Mercer took her departure to pay an annual visit to Balto. & I shall rejoin my better half in a day or two,—I shall however promise myself that before the session you find leisure to [seize?] a day or two with the oldest friend you have in state of Maryland, & certainly one not less sincere in his Attachment.—

With the highest respect yr Ob. Sr.

John F. Mercer

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 27 Oct. and so recorded in SJL.

Mercer had invited TJ and James Madison to visit at Cedar Park, his estate on west river Farm in Anne Arundel County, which he had inherited through his wife’s grandparents and where he lived from 1785 until 1821 (Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–1989, Washington, D.C., 1989 description ends ; Papenfuse, Maryland Legislature description begins Edward C. Papenfuse, Alan F. Day, David W. Jordan, Gregory A. Stiverson, eds., A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635–1789, Baltimore, 1979–85, 2 vols. description ends , 2:594–5; Vol. 33:218).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 24 October 1801
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    Mercer, John F.
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    24 October 1801

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John F. Mercer, 24 October 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-35-02-0412. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 35, 1 August–30 November 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 499.]

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