Extract from Thomas Jefferson to James Maury

I have withdrawn myself from all political intermedlings, to indulge the evening of my life with what have been the passions of every portion of it, books, science, my farms, my family and friends. to these every hour of the day is now devoted.

RC (Jonathan Kasso, Melville, NY, 2002). PoC (DLC). Published in PTJRS, 4:671.