Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 May 1790 [Quote]
Locke’s little book on government is perfect as far as it goes.
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Extract from the Journal of William Maclay, 28 June 1790 [Quote]
Jefferson transgresses on the extreme of stiff gentility or lofty gravity.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph (1741–1793), 25 July 1790 [Quote]
I have always believed it better to be settled on a small farm, just sufficient to furnish the table, and to leave one’s principal plantations free to pursue the single object of cropping without interruption.
Draft of a letter from Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Mann Randolph (1741–1793), Oct. 1790
It makes me inexpressibly happy to find that your displeasure towards me has in some means subsided. I take that opportunity of laying open the motives of my conduct & of exposing it thro’ all its circumstances to your calm consideration. The purchase of Edgehill was suggested by Mr Jefferson...
Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Mann Randolph (1741–1793), Oct. 1790
Immediately on receiving your letter I sent my servant back to Monticello for the Memo of the agreement between you & Mr Jefferson, which I had left not thinking I shd want it. The journey cannot be performed in less than 4 days & at the expiration of that time it shall be returned to you...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 23 Dec. 1790 [Quote]
Perhaps you think you have nothing to say to me ... there is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me ... Write then my dear daughter punctually on your day