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Credit: ©Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Original Author: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Created: Nov. 23, 2021

Thomas Jefferson’s Watch Key

In this video, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello’s Associate Curator of Decorative Arts Diane Ehrenpreis describes Thomas Jefferson's watch key, which contains a lock of his deceased wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson's hair.
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