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Thomas Jefferson’s Desk
On this desk Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in June 1776.
Jefferson himself had designed the desk, including a hinged writing board and a locking drawer for papers, pens, and inkwell. The desk was Jefferson’s companion as a Revolutionary patriot, American diplomat, and president of the United States. Late in his life, Jefferson attached a note to the bottom, saying that the desk would likely become a treasured relic, “for its great association with the birth of the Great Charter of our Independence.” |