Extract from Jared Sparks's Account of a Visit to Monticello, [19-20 Aug. 1820] [Quote]
But one of the greatest curiosities I met with was Thomas Jefferson. Whether you will call this a natural or an artificial curiosity, I am puzzled to know. At all events, I went to see him at the exhibition-house at Monticello, up a long hill, which is almost daily trod by many a weary pilgrim’s...