Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 26 Jan. 1793 [Quote]
you were never more mistaken than in supposing you were too long on the prattle &c. of little Anne. I read it with quite as much pleasure as you write it.
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Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Knox, 12 Feb. 1810 [Quote]
the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Drayton, 30 July 1787 [Quote]
by varying too the articles of culture, we multiply the chances for making something, & disarm the seasons in a proportionable degree of their calamitous effects.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Johann Ludwig de Unger, 30 Nov. 1780 [Quote]
when I shall be again be permitted to withdraw to that scene of quiet of retirement abstracted from which I know no happiness in this world.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Observations on Jean Nicolas Démeunier’s Article on the United States prepared for the Encyclopédie Méthodique, [22 June 1786] [Quote]
say ‘there were 10. states present. 6. voted unanimously for it, 3. against it, and one was divided: and seven votes being requisite to decide the proposition affirmatively, it was lost. the voice of a single individual of the state which was divided, or of one of those which were of the negative...
Extract from the Committee Report to the Confederation Congress for the Government of Western Territory, 1 Mar. 1784 [Quote]
That after the year 1800 of the christian æra, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said states, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, [before 17June 1783] [Quote]
The General assembly shall not have power ... to permit the introduction of any more slaves to reside in this state, or the continuance of slavery beyond the generation which shall be living on the 31st. day of December 1800; all persons born after that day being hereby declared free.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Observations on the Whale-Fishery, [before 19 Nov. 1788] [Quote]
The Refinery for whale oil lately established at Rouen, seems to be an object worthy of national attention. in order to judge of it’s importance, the different qualities of whale oil must be noted ... the Spermaceti whale found by the Nantucketmen in the neighborhood of the Western islands ......
Extract from Thomas Lee Shippen to William Shippen, 14 Feb.–26 Mar. 1788 [Quote]
Mr. Jefferson is in my opinion without exeption the wisest and most amiable man I have seen in Europe.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Page, 4 May 1786 [Quote]
I returned but three or four days ago from a two months trip to England ... the gardening in that country is the article in which it surpasses all the earth. I mean their pleasure gardening. this indeed went far beyond my ideas.
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