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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 to James Mease re: origins of the Taliaferro apple, its quality, cyder

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06511 Author/Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Place Written: Charlottesville, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1814/06/29 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Responding to a letter about Hughes's crab apple. (Spelling Mease's name "Maese.") He tells the origins of the Taliaferro apple by Major Taliaferro about 60 years before, near Williamsburg, and which he called the Robertson apple. When Taliferro "made a cask of cyder [it was]... the finest they had ever seen." Jefferson compares the Hughes crab apple to the Taliaferro and finds the latter "has more body, is less acid, and comes nearer to the silky Champaigne than any other." Written in Monticello

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Mease, James, 1771-1846

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