Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

The more I reflect on the idea which struck me during our conversation, the greater becomes my conviction of the advantages which would accrue to both parties from its adoption.—I will agree to settle, this fall, either at Baton-rouge or on some other land, the selection of which I shall leave to my father, with any number of negroes, and remit half, of th or more, (that can be easily settled) of the proceeds to Mr R. I would have communicated this to himself, but am not sufficiently acquainted with the state of his affairs to judge of its feasibility; you are, and will judge for me.—If you think it suits him, fear nothing for my health; the happiness of my own family alone, would cause me to take every precaution for its preservation, even if Virginia and your family had no interest in it. This plan is pleasing to me, principally because it will remove the necessity of that delay, so much dreaded by you and me, (although on different grounds,) by en[. . .] enabling me to promise that Virginia shall spend the summers here.—I think that plan must prove as advantageous to her father as it would to myself, if it suits the state of his affairs; if it does not, I must go to Louisiana this fall, and try what the energy I am capable of can effectuate, when the reward of my success will be the happiness of her, whom I prise more than any gift the world could bestow.