July 26 It is this day four and twenty years since we came together, in which time much of bad and good has fallen to our lot: but take it all in all we have probably done as well as our Neighbours, and have been as much blessed as mortals usually are who cannot pretend to any extraordinary degree of perfection—I yet hope that many years are in store for you whatever may befal myself, and that...
2Peter W. Sproat to Thomas Jefferson, 26 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I Enclose you by this days Mail a copy of the Savage Beauty a Novel recently written by me as a specimen of American Writing— Please Sir to accept of my great Respect and best wishes for your mental felicity in the serene evening of your days— RC ( MiU-C : Thomas Jefferson Collection); addressed: “To his Excellency Thomas Jefferson . Late President of the U.S. Montiello ”; franked; postmarked...