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I believe it to have been his, but will not say positively, but of the letter I am positive.

I have also the hose, slippers, and dress worn at a ball given by Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette when the latter was in this country, the slippers are of white satin, the hose, flesh color silk, with the top of feet and instep of open work embroidery. The dress is old gold sequined silk, it is just as it was worn then. I have also books - two volumes containing letters of Henry VIII, Cromwell, Elizabeth etc. There were

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printed in 1774. Bound in leather, and in a perfect state of preservation. These are things, which I prize very highly, but I have been left a widow, and circumstances are such that I will have to part with them, and hearing of your interest in such things, write to ask if you would not like to purchase them. I have also cut glass used at a wedding more than one hundred and ten years ago, 8 wine glasses and & six salt stands, these are very heavy and very [illegible].