Caroline Tufton (Barham) to Martha Jefferson (Randolph)

My dear Miss Jefferson

there is a Ball here Monday, which I hope you will come to, the Duke would have sent a card, but I prevented him as I said I would tell you of it, I will certainly call upon you between this, and then, that we may settle what time you can come. I hope your cold is better and that polly was has got rid of her fever. Adieu Believe me

most sincerely yrs
C: Tufton
RC (Privately owned, 2015); partially dated at foot of text; addressed: “À Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Jefferson”; with note in the hand of Martha J. Trist Burke: “from Lady Caroline Tufton.”
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December 31, 1789
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