Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia, to Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Title
Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia, to Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Abstract
After successfully vaccinating his children against smallpox, Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse sent a copy of his pamphlet A Prospect of Exterminating the Small-Pox (1800) to Thomas Jefferson, then Vice-President of the United States. As this letter from 1801 testifies, some vaccine matter from Waterhouse was used by Jefferson in experiments with members of his family and household at Monticello.
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date Created
1801, August 21
Extent
1 page
Identifier
E2003.1.23
Provenance
Gift of Mary Ware Sampson and Margaret Thayer Lancaster to the Harvard Medical Library, 1941
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Citation
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 , “Autograph Letter Signed from Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia, to Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, Massachusetts,” OnView, accessed December 1, 2023, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6443.
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