Thomas Jefferson to Richard Bache, 17 January 1818
To Richard Bache
Monticello Jan. 17. 18.
Dear Sir
I have just recieved your favor of the 3d and not doubting the value of a paper which shall be edited by you, I should willingly subscribe to that you propose to edit. but there is a time for every thing, & that for withdrawing from all new engagements is come for me. I have long since excused myself from new papers, & got rid of all the old except one of my own state & one out of it; & of these I read but here & there a scrap. from a confidence in the advance of knolege, I am sure the rising generation will be wiser than that going off the stage, and cheerfully therefore commit myself implicitly to their care [as] a mere passenger in the vessel it is now their turn to [arrange?].1
Th: Jefferson
PoC (DLC); on verso of reused address cover of Thomas Cooper to TJ, 20 Nov. 1817; torn at seal; at foot of text: “Mr Richard Bache”; endorsed by TJ.
TJ still subscribed to the Richmond Enquirer of his own state and the Baltimore Niles’ Weekly Register, the New-York Public Sale Report, the Philadelphia Aurora, and the Washington National Intelligencer out of it. Late this year he canceled his subscription to the last three newspapers (, 2:1349).
1. Word illegible.
Index Entries
- aging; TJ on his own search
- aging; TJ on youth search
- Aurora (Philadelphia newspaper); TJ’s subscription to search
- Bache, Richard (1784–1848); andFranklin Gazette search
- Bache, Richard (1784–1848); letter to search
- Baltimore, Md.; newspapers search
- Franklin Gazette (Philadelphia newspaper) search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; and newspaper subscriptions search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; reading habits of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; aging search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Opinions on; aging search
- National Intelligencer (Washington newspaper); TJ subscribes to search
- newspapers; BaltimoreNiles’ Weekly Register search
- newspapers; New-York Public Sale Report search
- newspapers; PhiladelphiaAurora search
- newspapers; PhiladelphiaFranklin Gazette search
- newspapers; subscriptions to, by TJ search
- New York (city); New-York Public Sale Report search
- New-York Public Sale Report (newspaper) search
- Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore newspaper) search
- Philadelphia; Aurora search
- Philadelphia; Franklin Gazette search
- Richmond Enquirer (newspaper); TJ subscribes to search
- subscriptions, for publications; newspapers search