Bridget Hawkins (Roper-Curzon) to Martha Jefferson (Randolph), [ca. 1788]
Il mia cara sorella spero che portate béne—surprised really astonished at my own cleverness, you must give me credit my Dr Jef for half a hundred good things I could have said, or more properly speaking wrote in this letter, had I not treasured up all the wit I am mistress of, in one corner of my...