Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles

Monticello Apr. 27. 95.

I am become more firmly fixt to the glebe. if you visit me as a farmer, it must be as a condisciple: for I am but a learner; an eager one indeed but yet desperate, being too old now to learn a new art. however I am as much delighted & occupied with it as if I was the greatest adept.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 28:337.

condisciple: A fellow disciple or scholar; a shoolfellow or fellow student (Oxford English Dictionary).

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