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[[File:WytheToJeffersonApril101800.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1800." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib009341 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
 
[[File:WytheToJeffersonApril101800.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1800." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib009341 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
  
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G' Wythe to T' Jefferson<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After the seventh decad [sic] of my years began i learned to write with the left hand, as you may see by this specimen, and that with ease although slowly. yet if I write were painful, I should, before this time, have answered your [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 28 February 1800|letter]] of 28 of february: but i have been endeavouring to recollect what little of parliamentary procedings i formerly knew, and find myself unable to give information on the questions which you propounded. adieu, my best friend. 1- of april, 1800.  <br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After the seventh decad of my years began i learned to write with the left hand, as you may see by this specimen, and that with ease, although slowly. yet if to write were painfull, i should, before this time, have answered your [[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 28 February 1800|letter]] of 28 of february: but i have been endeavouring to recollect what little of parliamentary procedings i formerly knew, and find myself unable to give information on the questions which you propounded. adieu, my best friend. 10 of april, 1800.  <br />
  
 
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"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1800." Image from the Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.

G' Wythe to T' Jefferson
    After the seventh decad of my years began i learned to write with the left hand, as you may see by this specimen, and that with ease, although slowly. yet if to write were painfull, i should, before this time, have answered your letter of 28 of february: but i have been endeavouring to recollect what little of parliamentary procedings i formerly knew, and find myself unable to give information on the questions which you propounded. adieu, my best friend. 10 of april, 1800.