Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

Your very obliging Letter of the 11th instt enclosing the proceedings and Resolutions of the American Philosophical Society, on the occasion of the decease of their venerated associates Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, have been received and by me communicated to the members of the family of the latter now here—In their name and my own, I pray you Gentlemen to make acceptable to the Society our grateful acknowledgments, for the interest they have kindly taken in the bereavement peculiar to the families of the deceased, superadded to the common loss sustained, in the same event by our Country—If the Public Misfortune has been mitigated, by the extraordinary circumstances which attended the coincident departure of the two congenial Spirits, so distinguished in the origin and progress of our National Independence and Union, the private Sorrows of their relatives and kindred cannot but be soothed by that universal sympathy, which their fellow citizens have manifested towards them—