Thomas Jefferson Authentic Signed 7.625x10 Polygraph Letter BAS #AA03517
This Autographed 7.625x10 Polygraph Letter has been Personally Signed by Thomas Jefferson. This item is 100% Authentic to include a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) / hologram by Beckett Authentication Services. The authenticity can be verified on Beckett Authentication Services website.
Letters written by Jefferson using polygraph are very, very scarce and only a handful have been on the market in the last 40+ years. The polygraph operated by attaching a second pen at a prescribed distance away from the pen that Jefferson wrote with himself, thus enabling him to make an identical copy. They are nearly indistinguishable from letters directly written by Jefferson, and look exactly the same as if they were not done by this method. Several factors suggest that this is a letter Jefferson executed by polygraph: first, the presence of Jefferson's docket indicates that it was a filed letter; and second, Jefferson's file copy was written on a recycled sheet of paper.
Jefferson wrote in part, with original spelling and punctuation:
"Monticello Oct. 26. 17.
Dear Sir
Mr Colclaser one of my mill tenants informs me he has sent forty odd barrels of flour, to be delivered to your order, and that he shall make it up 50. (a quarter's rent) and if the river does not admit my sending 50. barrels more from the d mill within a few days, I must get an order for that quantity on his stock in Richmond in exchange for so much of mine now in the mill. These supplies are necessary to cover a draught for 190.D. I now make in favor or Mr Southal, draughts for my taxes here + in Bedford, and some further draughts I must make the 1st. week of next month. The residue of my flour will not go down until December, unless any further occasions should arise of drawing on you. Accept the assurance of my continued friendship + respect
Th: Jefferson
Mr. Gibson."
Letters written by Jefferson using polygraph are very, very scarce and only a handful have been on the market in the last 40+ years. The polygraph operated by attaching a second pen at a prescribed distance away from the pen that Jefferson wrote with himself, thus enabling him to make an identical copy. They are nearly indistinguishable from letters directly written by Jefferson, and look exactly the same as if they were not done by this method. Several factors suggest that this is a letter Jefferson executed by polygraph: first, the presence of Jefferson's docket indicates that it was a filed letter; and second, Jefferson's file copy was written on a recycled sheet of paper.
Jefferson wrote in part, with original spelling and punctuation:
"Monticello Oct. 26. 17.
Dear Sir
Mr Colclaser one of my mill tenants informs me he has sent forty odd barrels of flour, to be delivered to your order, and that he shall make it up 50. (a quarter's rent) and if the river does not admit my sending 50. barrels more from the d mill within a few days, I must get an order for that quantity on his stock in Richmond in exchange for so much of mine now in the mill. These supplies are necessary to cover a draught for 190.D. I now make in favor or Mr Southal, draughts for my taxes here + in Bedford, and some further draughts I must make the 1st. week of next month. The residue of my flour will not go down until December, unless any further occasions should arise of drawing on you. Accept the assurance of my continued friendship + respect
Th: Jefferson
Mr. Gibson."
Thomas Jefferson Authentic Signed 7.625x10 Polygraph Letter BAS #AA03517
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