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[[File:JeffersonToWytheApril181795.jpg|right|thumb|200px|<p>"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 18 April 1795." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib008491 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
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[[File:JeffersonToWytheApril181795.jpg|right|thumb|300px|<p>"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 18 April 1795." Image from the [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mtj.mtjbib008491 Library of Congress,] ''The Thomas Jefferson Papers.''</p>]]
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==Letter text==
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[[Thomas Jefferson|Th: Jefferson]] to [[George Wythe|G. Wythe]].
  
Th: Jefferson to G. Wythe.<br />
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I thank you sincerely for your book. I shall read it with great pleasure & profit, & I needed something the reading of which would refresh my law memory.  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I thank you sincerely for your book. I shall read it with great pleasure & profit, & I needed something the reading of which would refresh my law memory. <br />
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My collection of acts of assembly are in a very chaotic state, insomuch that I have not had the courage to attempt to arrange them since my return home. as soon as this is done, I shall send the printed acts to be bound in Richmond after that it will be more easy to consult them, & probably I may be able to engage some young man in Charlottsville to copy acts for those who need them, for hire. I have no body living with me who could do it, & I am become too lazy, with the pen & too much attached to the plough to do it myself. I live on my horse from an early breakfast to a late dinner, & very often after that till dark. this occasions me to be in great arrears in my pen-work. Adieu with sincere affection. <br />
 
Monticello Apr. 18. 95. <br />
 
  
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My collection of acts of assembly are in a very chaotic state, insomuch that I have not had the courage to attempt to arrange them since my return home. as soon as this is done, I shall send the printed acts to be bound in Richmond after that it will be more easy to consult them, & probably I may be able to engage some young man in Charlottsville to copy acts for those who need them, for hire. I have no body living with me who could do it, & I am become too lazy, with the pen & too much attached to the plough to do it myself. I live on my horse from an early breakfast to a late dinner, & very often after that till dark. this occasions me to be in great arrears in my pen-work. Adieu with sincere affection.
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Monticello Apr. 18. 95.
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==See also==
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*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1795]]
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*[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1796]]
  
 
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[[Category: Letters to Wythe]]
 
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Revision as of 21:34, 4 July 2015

"Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 18 April 1795." Image from the Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.

Letter text

Th: Jefferson to G. Wythe.

I thank you sincerely for your book. I shall read it with great pleasure & profit, & I needed something the reading of which would refresh my law memory.

My collection of acts of assembly are in a very chaotic state, insomuch that I have not had the courage to attempt to arrange them since my return home. as soon as this is done, I shall send the printed acts to be bound in Richmond after that it will be more easy to consult them, & probably I may be able to engage some young man in Charlottsville to copy acts for those who need them, for hire. I have no body living with me who could do it, & I am become too lazy, with the pen & too much attached to the plough to do it myself. I live on my horse from an early breakfast to a late dinner, & very often after that till dark. this occasions me to be in great arrears in my pen-work. Adieu with sincere affection.

Monticello Apr. 18. 95.

See also