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[[File:WytheToJeffersonNovember11794p3.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1794, pg 3." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib008433 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]] | [[File:WytheToJeffersonNovember11794p3.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 November 1794, pg 3." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib008433 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]] | ||
− | entertainment to which | + | entertainment to which Monticello invites. i return the book, supposing you to possess but one copy, best by determining if i should deprive you of a pleasure i am forbidden to enjoy, which, with Aesops leave, would be more than brutish. <br /> |
Since i can not parte of your figs at your house<br /> | Since i can not parte of your figs at your house<br /> | ||
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GW to TJ salutem matter-
An apt beginning to a letter containing a prescription.
Put on sheeps clothing. It will cure rheu. Make pains, is comfortable in winter, after one summer not unpleasant in that season, less
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less unpleasant than linen in all seasons when we perspire freely probatum est.
You send Kuster for my perusal. i can peruse nothing but court papers. This employment by habit is become delectable, in it i regret only that i cannot participate in the elegant entertainment
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entertainment to which Monticello invites. i return the book, supposing you to possess but one copy, best by determining if i should deprive you of a pleasure i am forbidden to enjoy, which, with Aesops leave, would be more than brutish.
Since i can not parte of your figs at your house
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house, send me some cuttings that i may [entueavem?] to treat you with their fruit, when you come to my house.
1 of November 1794.