Extract from a Reported Comment made by Thomas Jefferson, as Recalled by Martha J. Trist Burke
| Alexandria July 16th 1896. |
My father was riding one evening with Mr Jefferson and had been commenting upon the character of George Washington in a tone which elicited the following from Mr Jefferson who stopping his horse and pointing to the heavens exclaimd “Yes Sir, when names now great are gone & forgotten, His (George Washington’s) will Shine like a galaxy in the heavens.”
M J. T. Burke
Tr (Martha J. Trist Burke Commonplace Book, privately owned); dateline beneath signature.
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September 25, 1887
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