1Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 21 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I leave at Flood’s with this letter a packet containing 3. small volumes of my petit format library containing several tragedies of Euripides , some of Sophocles and one of Aeschylus . the 1 st you will find easy, the 2 d tolerably so; the last incomprehensible in his flights among the clouds. his text has come to us so mutilated & defective and has been so much plaistered with amendments by...