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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph note signed in text ("Th: Jefferson"), in the third-person, to Mr. Huntington, n.d. 1 page, oblong, 3 x 6 5/8 in., framed with an engraving of Jefferson. AN AUTOGRAPH INVITATION TO SHARE SOME PEAS. Jefferson invites a neighbor (perhaps Henry Huntington) to join him in eating a freshly harvested Monticello crop: "Th: Jefferson asks the favor of Mr. Huntington to partake of his first dish of peas tomorrow, tardy as they have been in coming." This note probably dates from the years after Jefferson served as Secretary of State in the Washington administration. After quitting Philadelphia and returning to Monticello, he was free to devote greater time and attention to his farming at Monticello. Eschewing the soil killing tobacco crop, Jefferson rotated his crops in these years between wheat, clover and peas, telling Washington in a 1796 letter "I am trying the white boiling pea of Europe (the Albany pea) this year till I can get the hog pea of England whi
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph note signed in text ("Th: Jefferson"), in the third-person, to Mr. Huntington, n.d. 1 page, oblong, 3 x 6 5/8 in., framed with an engraving of Jefferson. AN AUTOGRAPH INVITATION TO SHARE SOME PEAS. Jefferson invites a neighbor (perhaps Henry Huntington) to join him in eating a freshly harvested Monticello crop: "Th: Jefferson asks the favor of Mr. Huntington to partake of his first dish of peas tomorrow, tardy as they have been in coming." This note probably dates from the years after Jefferson served as Secretary of State in the Washington administration. After quitting Philadelphia and returning to Monticello, he was free to devote greater time and attention to his farming at Monticello. Eschewing the soil killing tobacco crop, Jefferson rotated his crops in these years between wheat, clover and peas, telling Washington in a 1796 letter "I am trying the white boiling pea of Europe (the Albany pea) this year till I can get the hog pea of England which is the most productive of all" (Papers, 29:129).

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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph note signed in text ("Th: Jefferson"), in the third-person, to Mr. Huntington, n.d. 1 page, oblong, 3 x 6 5/8 in., framed with an engraving of Jefferson. AN AUTOGRAPH INVITATION TO SHARE SOME PEAS. Jefferson invites a neighbor (perhaps Henry Huntington) to join him in eating a freshly harvested Monticello crop: "Th: Jefferson asks the favor of Mr. Huntington to partake of his first dish of peas tomorrow, tardy as they have been in coming." This note probably dates from the years after Jefferson served as Secretary of State in the Washington administration. After quitting Philadelphia and returning to Monticello, he was free to devote greater time and attention to his farming at Monticello. Eschewing the soil killing tobacco crop, Jefferson rotated his crops in these years between wheat, clover and peas, telling Washington in a 1796 letter "I am trying the white boiling pea of Europe (the Albany pea) this year till I can get the hog pea of England which is the most productive of all" (Papers, 29:129).