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Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright

Monticello in Virginia. June 5. 24.

Your age of 84. and mine of 81. years ensure us a speedy meeting. we may then commune at leisure, and more fully, on the good and evil which, in the course of our long lives, we have both witnessed

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Author
Thomas Jefferson
Recipient
John Cartwright
Date Range
1821 - 1830
Date
June 5, 1824
Collection
Quotes by and about Thomas Jefferson
Repository
DLC
Quote Category
Old Age

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