{"id":10188,"date":"2014-05-14T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T08:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10188"},"modified":"2014-05-14T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T08:15:38","slug":"philadelphia-rare-documents-dealer-selling-1805-thomas-jefferson-letter-for-35000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/14\/philadelphia-rare-documents-dealer-selling-1805-thomas-jefferson-letter-for-35000\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia rare documents dealer selling 1805 Thomas Jefferson letter for $35,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10259\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/524px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1805_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10259\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/524px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1805_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"President Thomas Jefferson (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"524\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/524px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1805_cropped.jpg 524w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/524px-Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1805_cropped-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Thomas Jefferson (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A dealer of rare historic documents is selling a letter that provides a poignant insight into the family side of a Founding Father.<\/p>\n<p>The July 24, 1805, letter from President Thomas Jefferson to his friend and estate manager discusses the 62-year-old president&#8217;s desire to have his Poplar Forest plantation in Virginia appraised so he could begin parceling off portions of the property to his grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The Raab Collection in Philadelphia has set the price at $35,000 for the one-page handwritten letter, which belonged to an anonymous collector and has never been available to scholars or the public.<\/p>\n<p>Raab Collection president Nathan Raab said the letter shows that even while serving as president, Jefferson&#8217;s mind was occupied with family and the legacy he would be leaving his grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A dealer of rare historic documents is selling a letter that provides a poignant insight into the family &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1901,3351,3352,352],"class_list":["post-10188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-auction","tag-jefferson","tag-letter","tag-us","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}