Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Tessé
| Nismes. Mar. 20. 1787. |
Roman taste, genius & magnificence excite ideas
PrC (MHi); first page only. PrC (MoSHi); second and third page only; worn and faded, with holes at folds and lower left
quarter of third page missing. Tr (DLC); in TJ’s hand. Words for the missing or illegible parts of the PrC have been supplied
from the Tr and are indicated by square brackets. Published in PTJ, 11:226–8.
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