Difference between revisions of "Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 29 May 1786"
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+ | ==Letter text== | ||
+ | <blockquote> | ||
+ | Paris May 29. 1786. | ||
− | Dear Sir | + | Dear Sir |
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+ | This will be handed you by Mr. Paradise, a Græcian & honest man by birth, a gentleman & man of learning by education, & our countryman by choice the most rational 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 overflowings 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 calculation, for by shrinking from a small pain, it often recurs 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 what 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 me affectionately to [[Elizabeth Taliaferro Wythe|mis Wythe]] & be assured of the sincere esteem with which I am Dear Sir your friend & servt. | ||
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+ | [[Thomas Jefferson|Th: Jefferson]] | ||
+ | </blockquote> | ||
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+ | ==See also== | ||
+ | *[[Wythe to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1786]] | ||
+ | *[[Thomas Jefferson to Wythe, 13 August 1786]] | ||
[[Category: Letters to Wythe]] | [[Category: Letters to Wythe]] | ||
[[Category:PROOFED]] | [[Category:PROOFED]] |
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Letter text
Paris May 29. 1786.
Dear Sir
This will be handed you by Mr. Paradise, a Græcian & honest man by birth, a gentleman & man of learning by education, & our countryman by choice the most rational 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 overflowings 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 calculation, for by shrinking from a small pain, it often recurs 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 what 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 me affectionately to mis Wythe & be assured of the sincere esteem with which I am Dear Sir your friend & servt.