Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Design for Tombstone and Inscription, [before 4 July 1826] [Quote]

could the dead feel any interest in Monuments or other remembrances of them ... The following would be to my Manes the most gratifying. On the grave a plain die or cube of 3.f without any mouldings, surmounted by an Obelisk of 6.f. height, each of a single stone: on the faces of the Obelisk the...

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