Extract from Sarah N. Randolph’s The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, 1871
From this northern terrace the view is sublime; and here Jefferson and his company were accustomed to sit, bare-headed, in the summer until bed-time, having neither dew nor insects to annoy them. Here, perhaps, has been assembled more love of liberty, virtue, wisdom, and learning than any other private spot in America.
Published in Sarah N. Randolph, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences,
by His Great-Granddaughter (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871), 337.
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December 31, 1871
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