Extract from Margaret Bayard Smith’s Account of a Visit to Monticello
| [29 July–2 Aug.] 1809. |
When we descended to the Hall, he asked us to pass into the library, or as I called it his sanctum sanctorrum, where any other foot than his own seldom intrudes.
MS (DLC: Margaret Bayard Smith Papers: Diary 1809–28). Published in PTRJS, 1:389–90.
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