Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt

Monticello Apr. 12. 12.

mr Henry’s ravenous avarice, the only passion paramount to his love of popularity. the facts I have heard on that subject are not within my own knolege, & ought not to be hazarded but on better testimony than I possess.

PoC (DLC). Published in PTJRS, 4:596–7.
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