Extract from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Paris Sep. 20. 1785.

but how is a taste in this beautiful art to be formed in our countrymen, unless we avail ourselves of every occasion when public buildings are to be erected, of presenting to them models for their study & imitation?

RC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 8:534–37.
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