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[[File:JeffersonToWytheMay291786.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 29 May 1786." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib001980 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]] | [[File:JeffersonToWytheMay291786.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 29 May 1786." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib001980 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]] | ||
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+ | Dear Sir Paris May 29. 1786. <br /> | ||
+ | This will be handed you by Mr. Paradise, a [fraecian?] & honest man by birth, a gentleman & man of learning by education, & our countryman by choice the most national of all titles. I need not say more to ensure him all the services you can render him. He has a heart which will repay your attentions with overflowing of gratitude. Probably he will want your counsels, perhaps too your encouragement to do what you shall find for his interest; for he is of a temperament disposing him to recoil from difficulties rather than meet & surmount them. This is a false calculations, for by shrinking from a small pain, it often rears upon us from another quarter with double force. His interests & inclinations would have led him to Virginia, but a singular dread which he has of thunder and the informations he had gathered that it is formidable about Williamsburg seemed to leave him fixed in England. I told him that many years residence. Both in the lower & upper county, & particular observations enabled me to tell him, that there was infinitely less in the latter than former. He goes to try this, & the result on his sensations will determine him ultimately. Present are affectionately to Mis Wythe & be assured of the sincere esteem with which I am Dear Sir your friend & servt. <br /> | ||
+ | Th. Jefferson<br /> | ||
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Dear Sir Paris May 29. 1786.
This will be handed you by Mr. Paradise, a [fraecian?] & honest man by birth, a gentleman & man of learning by education, & our countryman by choice the most national of all titles. I need not say more to ensure him all the services you can render him. He has a heart which will repay your attentions with overflowing of gratitude. Probably he will want your counsels, perhaps too your encouragement to do what you shall find for his interest; for he is of a temperament disposing him to recoil from difficulties rather than meet & surmount them. This is a false calculations, for by shrinking from a small pain, it often rears upon us from another quarter with double force. His interests & inclinations would have led him to Virginia, but a singular dread which he has of thunder and the informations he had gathered that it is formidable about Williamsburg seemed to leave him fixed in England. I told him that many years residence. Both in the lower & upper county, & particular observations enabled me to tell him, that there was infinitely less in the latter than former. He goes to try this, & the result on his sensations will determine him ultimately. Present are affectionately to Mis Wythe & be assured of the sincere esteem with which I am Dear Sir your friend & servt.
Th. Jefferson