On January 20 of 1881 Secretary of State William R. Evarts presented one of the fac-similes to John R Tucker, a Virginia politician who was involved with accepting the Jefferson Original on behalf of the nation in April 1880.
This is documented by personal correspondence between the two with a letter of presentation and reply nine days later. Previous researchers state this replica was not marked with a number and was in the hands of Tucker's heirs in the 1970s. This author suspects this desk to be either in the Winchester, Virginia area or possibility the Miami area, where Tucker's heirs were last known.
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