Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull

Paris Feb. 15. 1789.

I will put off till my return from America all of them except Bacon, Locke and Newton, whose pictures I will trouble you to have copied for me: and as I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 14:561.
Print
Author
Recipient
Date Range
Date
February 15, 1789
Collection
Repository
Quote Category