John Frederick Sackville to Martha Jefferson (Randolph)

I beg a your acceptance of the enclosed as a feeble proof de mon tendre souvenir

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RC (Privately owned, 2015); dateline at foot of text; with a subsequent note in the hand of Martha J. Trist Burke: “from the Duke of “Dorset” to Miss Jefferson with a simple ring—she had refused to accept a diamond ring from him M. J. T. Burke.”

de mon tendre souvenir: “of my fond remembrance.”

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Date
August 7, 1789
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