Extract from Jefferson at Monticello: The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson

I have rode over the plantation, I reckon, a thousand times with Mr. Jefferson, and when he was not talking he was nearly always humming some tune, or singing in a low tone to himself.

Published in Hamilton W. Pierson, ed., Private Life of Thomas Jefferson (1862). Published in James A. Bear, ed., Jefferson at Monticello (1967), 83.
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