Margaret Bayard Smith's Account of a Visit to Monticello in 1809, as published within “The First Forty Years of Washington Society,” in 1906
In a visit Mr. J. made our little cottage last autumn, we were speaking of all the various charms of nature, storms of winter, “But,” said he, “you can here form no idea of a snow storm, No, to see it in all its grandeur you should stand at my back door; there we see its progress—rising over the...
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