Autograph Letter Signed from President Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Governor William Henry Cabell

(Monticello, Virginia), 1807. Very Good. One quarto sheet. Monticello: September 26, 1807. Third person Autograph Letter Signed by Jefferson in the body of the letter and again on the verso above the address: "free. Th. Jefferson Pr. US.", authorizing free postal delivery. Old light fold lines, one slight separation along a horizontal fold, one small tear from where the original wax seal was opened, very good. A fine handwritten letter dating from Jefferson's second term as president, sent to "His Excellency Governor Cabell, Richmond." Cabell, a Jeffersonian Republican, was a presidential elector for Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and 1804, and served the legal maximum of three consecutive one-year terms as governor of Virginia, from 1805 to 1808. In the letter, written by Jefferson in the third person as was his custom for this type of formal correspondence, Jefferson refers to an enclosed "letter on the subject of Col. Larkin Smith" (not present) and authorizes Cabell "to put the letter under his cover & ask the favor of his superscribing the proper post office." A nice association between two important Virginians with two autograph signatures of Jefferson. (Inventory #: 393420)