Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 17 March 1793
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"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 17 March 1793." Image from the Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.
Dear Sir Philadelphia Mar. 17. 1793
Your seal not being finished till this morning I was not able to send it by any of the gentlemen bound directly to Richmond. I now put it into the care of Mr. Madison & Col. Monroe, who go to Fredericksburg & there will find some person going to Richmond. It has been delayed by an error in the engraver, who in engraving the word ΕΥΘΕΙΑΝ, mistook the Y for a Ψ and had engraved the letter character. On discovering the error I sent it back to him, and he had to engrave two or three of the neighboring letters to get the whole to stand right. The price is sixty four dollars. Brass has been preferred to steel, because of the liableness of the latter to rust, and to silver for its liableness to be stolen. I am with great & unceasing affection, my dear sir,
Your sincere friend & obedt. Servt.
P.S. Rapahanae is the orthography of the drawing
Th. Jefferson