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his conversation it appeared from day to day to those nearest and
dearest to him. Nor is it a matter of small value to bring to our sight the
interior life of our ancestors as it is delineated in the letters of Jefferson,
touching incidently on all the subjects of dress, food, manners,
amusements, expenditures, occupations--in brief, neglecting nothing of
what the men of those days were and thought and did. It is of such
materials that consist the pictures of history whose gaunt outlines of
battles, sieges, coronations, dethronements, and parliaments are of little
worth without the living and breathing details of everyday existence. *
* * The author has happily performed her task, never obtruding her
own presence upon the reader, careful only to come forward when
necessary to explain some doubtful point or to connect the events of
different dates. She may be congratulated upon the grace with which
she has both written and forborne to write, never being beguiled by the
vanity of authorship or that too great care which is the besetting sin of
biography. --Petersburg Daily Index.
It is a highly interesting book, not only as a portraiture of the domestic
life of Jefferson, but as a side view of the parties and politics of the day,
witnessed in our country seventy years ago. The correspondence of the
public characters at that period will be read with special interest by
those who study the early history of our government. --Richmond
Christian Observer.
In the unrestrained confidence of family correspondence, nature has
always full sway, and the revelations presented in this book of Mr.
Jefferson's real temper and opinions, unrestrained or unmodified by the

caution called for in public documents, make the work not only
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The author has done her work with a loving hand, and has made a most
interesting book. --N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
It gives a picture of his private life, which it presents in a most
favorable light, calculated to redeem Jefferson's character from many,
if not all, the aspersions and slanders which, in common with most
public characters, he had to endure while living. --New Bedford
Standard.
The letters of Jefferson are models of epistolary composition--easy,
graceful, and simple. --New Bedford Mercury.
The book is a very good picture of the social life not only of himself
but of the age in which he lived. --Detroit Post.
One of the most charming memoirs of the day. --N. Y. Times.

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[Illustration {Arthur Hughes}]
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