Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Delaplaine

Monticello Dec. 25. 16.

say nothing of my religion. it is known to my god and myself alone. it’s evidence before the world is to be sought in my life. if that has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

RC (LNT: George H. and Katherine M. Davis Collection). PoC (DLC).
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