JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO.

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF

THOMAS JEFFERSON.

From entirely new Materials.

WITH NUMEROUS FAC-SIMILES.

BY

REV. HAMILTON W. PIERSON, D. D.,

PRESIDENT OF CUMBERLAND COLLEGE, KY.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES SCRIBNER, 124 GRAND STREET.

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1874, April 28. Bequest of Mon. Charles Sumner's of Boston. (4.2.1830.)

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862,

By CHARLES SCRIBNER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New York.

JOHN F. TROW,

PRINTER, STEREOTYPER, AND ELECTROTYPER,

48 & 50 Greene Street,

New York.

TO

MY OLD COLLEGE CHUM,

REV. SILAS S. HARMON,

OF SONORA, CALIFORNIA.

IN MEMORY OF

THE FOUR DELIGHTFUL YEARS

WHEN

WE STUDIED, WALKED, AND TALKED TOGETHER,

AND

SO OFTEN AND SO TRULY SAID,

HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE JUVABIT,

This Volume

IS

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,

AS A TRIBUTE

TO HIS RARE ATTAINMENTS AS A SCHOLAR,

HIS SELF-DENYING TOILS AS A CHRISTIAN,

AND

HIS TRUE NOBILITY AS A MAN,

BY HIS DEVOTED FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.