John
The letter is definitely from John Taylor of Caroline. It is his hand and signature, matching, for example, a letter from Taylor to Thomas Jefferson of 10 July 1816 (also at MHS). Both letters are addressed from Port Royal, with the 1816 letter saying it was written from "Caroline Port Royal." Port Royal is a village about 3 miles from Taylor's home plantation of Hazelwood. Taylor would have listed Port Royal as his address because it had the closest post office.
Best regards, Jeff
Regards, Jeff
>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 11:17:52 -0400
F>rom: Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: John Taylor to W. C. Nicholas
>Jeff
> Thank you. Interesting that Mays attributed letter to Tyler. MHS sent
>me a digital image & its very clearly signed TAYLOR. Was this JT of
>Caroline?
>Jon Kukla
>On Monday, July 30, 2012, Jeff Looney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In response to Jon Kukla's query about John Taylor to Wilson Cary
>Nicholas, 25 October 1818 (MHi: Coolidge Collection of Jefferson Manuscripts). I am not aware of a previously published >version.
>
> This particular letter found its way into a collection of Jefferson
>family documents because the recipient, Wilson Cary Nicholas, was the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas >Jefferson's grandson.
> Randolph wound up serving as executor of both Jefferson's and Nicholas's estates, and their papers became mingled.
>
> The letter was already on our list of items for inclusion in our
> Digital
>Archive here at the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, and so we decided to bump it up in the queue. A >verified transcription went online today. You can get to it at
>
>
http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/about-retirement-series-digital-archive
>
> by clicking on "Search the Digital Archive" and then entering the date
> of the document.
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