Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) to unknown
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07149 Author/Creator: Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Place Written: Monticello, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 30 December 1820 Pagination: 1 p. ; 15.9 x 18.9 cm. Order a Copy
Thanks Jones for a copy of Pamyra Johnson's Poetic tale of Rosalie. Explains his enjoyment of the poem as a seventy seven year old reader and his appreciation for Johnson's dedication of the poem to him.
Monticello Dec. 30. 20.
Sir
I have duly received your favor of the 20th. Inst. and with it miss Pamyra Johnson's Poetic tale of Rosalie, and I by leave tho' the same channel to return her my thanks for it. I have read it with great pleasure, and that is saying much for it from a reader of 77. but the effusions of a feeling heart and delicate fancy, expressed in smooth numbers, make their impression even on the dull sensibilities of that age, and the sympathies wish the fate of a Constance, & fortune of a Rosalie can still be felt. I have more especially to thank her for the partialities towards myself, which she has been pleased to express in her dedication, in which she has ascribed to me much more than I have merited or claimed and may you, Sir, to accept the assurance of my great respect
Th: Jefferson
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