Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette

Nice, April 11, 1787.

I am never satiated with rambling through the fields and farms, examining the culture and cultivators, with a degree of curiosity which makes some take me to be a fool, and others to be much wiser than I am.

PrC (DLC); fragment. Published in PTJ, 11:283–85.
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