Canto XXXI
Tempus loquendi,
Tempus tacendi.
Said Mr Jefferson: It wd. have given us
Time.
"modern dress for your
statue…..
"I remember having written you while Congress sat at An-
napolis,
"on water communication
between ours and the western
country,
"particularly the information….of the plain between
"Big Beaver and Cayohoga, which made me hope that a canal
……navigation of Lake Erie and the Ohio. You must have had
"occasion of getting better information on this subject
"and if you have you wd. oblige me
"by a communication of it. I consider this canal,
"if practicable, as a very important work.
T.J.
to General Washington, 1787
…..no slaves
north of Maryland district….
…..flower found in Connecticut that vegetates when suspended
in air…
…screw more effectual if placed
below surface of water.
Suspect that a countryman of ours, Mr. Bushnell of Connecticut
Is entitled to the merit of prior discovery.
Excellency Mr Adams. Excellency Dr. Franklin.
And thus Mr Jefferson (president) to Tom
Paine:
"You expressed a wish to get passage to this country
in a public vessel. Mr. Dawson
is charged with orders
to the captain of the 'Maryland' to receive and accommodate
you
with passage back, if you can depart on so short a warning….
in hopes you will find us returned to sentiments
worthy of former time…..in these you have laboured as
much as any man living. That you may long live to
continue your labours and to reap their fitting reward….
Assurances of my high esteem and attachment."
"English papers…their lies…..
in a few years…no slaves northward of Maryland…
"Their tobacco, 9 millions, delivered in port of France;
6 millions to manufacture
on which the king takes thirty million
that cost 25 odd to collect
so that in all it costs 72 millions livres to the
consumer……
persuaded (I am) in this branch of the revenue
the collection absorbs too much.
(from
Paris, 1785)
……four our model, the Maison Quarree of Nismes…..
With respect to his motives (Madison
writing) I acknowledged
I had been much puzzled to divine any natural ones
without looking deeper into human nature
than I was willing to do.
(in
re/ Mr Robert Smith)
So critical the state of that country
moneyed men I imagine are glad to place their money abroad.
Mr Adams could borrow there for us.
This country is really supposed to be on the eve of a XTZBK49HT
(parts
of this letter in cipher)
Jefferson,
from Paris, to Madison, Aug. 2, 1787
I hear that Beaumarchais means
to make himself heard..
…turn through the Potomac,..commerce of Lake Erie….
I can further say with safety there is not a crowned head
in Europe whose talents or merits would entitle him
to be elected a vestryman by any American parish.
T.J.
To General Washington, May 2. '88.
"When Lafayette harangued you
and me and John Quincy
Adams
"through a whole evening in your hotel in the Cul de Sac….
"….silent as you were. I was, in plain truth as astonished
"at the grossness of his ignorance of government and history,
"as I had been for years before at that of Turgot,
"La
Rochefoucauld, of Condorcet
and of Franklin."
To
Mr Jefferson, Mr John Adams.
…care of the
letters now enclosed. Most of them are
of a complexion not proper for the eye of the police
From Monticello, April 16th. 1811
To Mr Barlow departing for Paris.
…indebted to nobody for more cordial aid than to Gallatin…
"Adair
too had his kink. He believed all the Indians of
"America to be descended from the jews."
Mr
Jefferson to Mr Adams.
"Man, a rational creature!"
said Franklin.
"Come, let us suppose a rational man.
"Strip him of all his appetites, especially his hunger and thirst.
"He is in his chamber, engaged in making experiments,
"Or in pursuing some problem.
"At this moment a servant knocks. 'Sir,
" 'dinner is on the table.'
" 'Ham and chickens?' 'Ham!'
" 'And must I break the chain of my thoughts to
" 'go down and gnaw a morsel of damned hog's arse?
" 'Put aside your ham; I will dine tomorrow;'
Take away appetite, and the present generation would not
Live a month, and no future generation would exist;
and thus the exalted dignity of human nature etc. …..
Mr
Adams to Mr Jefferson, 15 Nov. 1813.
"wish that I cd. subjoin Gosindi's
Syntagma
"of the doctrines of Epicurus.
(Mr
Adams.)
"This
was the state of things in 1785…"
(Mr
Jefferson.)
..met by agreement, about
the close of the session-
Patrick Henry, Frank Lee and your father,
Henry Lee and myself..to consult..measures
circumstances of times seemed to call for…
produce some channel of correspondence…this was in '73.
Jefferson
to D. Carr
..church of St. Peter…..human
reason, human conscience,
though I believe that there are such things….
Mr
Adams.
A tiel leis….en ancien
scripture, and
this they have translated Holy Scripture…
Mr
Jefferson
and they continue this error.
"Bonaparte…knowing nothing
of commerce….
…or paupers, who are about one fifth of the whole…
(on
the state of England in 1814).
Hic Explicit Cantus