Letter
Benjamin Rush to John Brown Cutting, May 18, 1787
Philadelphia may 18 th 1787. 1 D r Rush returns his thanks to M r: Cutting for the elegant & agreeable manner in which he conveyed M r Adams’s acceptable…
Mary Jefferson Eppes, known as Polly in childhood and Maria as an adult, was the younger of Thomas Jefferson's two daughters with his wife who survived beyond the age of 3. She married a first cousin, John Wayles Eppes, and had three children with him. Only their son Francis W. Eppes survived childhood. Maria died months after childbirth.
Philadelphia may 18 th 1787. 1 D r Rush returns his thanks to M r: Cutting for the elegant & agreeable manner in which he conveyed M r Adams’s acceptable…