son sold them his. He directed me to have it
packed in boxes and sent to Washington. John
Hemings, one of his servants, made the boxes, and
Burwell and I packed them up mostly. Dinsmore
helped us some, and the girls, Ellen, Virginia, and
Cornelia would come in sometimes and sort them
out, and help us a good deal. There was an im-
mense quantity of them. There were sixteen
wagon loads. I engaged the teams. Each wagon
was to carry three thousand pounds for a load, and
to have four dollars a day for delivering them in
Washington. If they carried more than three
thousand pounds, they were to have extra pay.
There were all kinds of books-books in a great
many languages that I knew nothing about. There
were a great many religious books among them-

measure will be complete, if my endeavors to fulfil my duties in the
several public stations to which I have been called, have obtained for
me the approbation of my country. The part which I have acted on
the theatre of public life, has been before them, and to their sentence
I submit it; but the testimony of my native county, of the individ-
uals who have known me in private life, to my conduct in its various
duties and relations, is the more grateful, as proceeding from eye-
witnesses, and observers, from triers of the vicinage. Of you, then,
my neighbors, I may ask, in the face of the world, "Whose ox have
I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or of
whose hand have I received a bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?”
On your verdict I rest with conscious security. Your wishes for
my happiness are received with just sensibility, and I offer sincere
prayers for your own welfare and prosperity."

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more than I have ever seen anywhere else. All the time Mr. Jefferson was President I had the keys to his library, and I could go in and look over the books, and take out any one that I wished, and read and return it. I have written a good many letters from that library to Mr. Jefferson in Washington. Mr. Jefferson had a sofa or lounge upon which he could sit or recline, and a small table on rollers, upon which he could write, or lay his books. Sometimes he would draw this table up before the sofa, and sit and read or write; and other times he would recline on his sofa, with his table rolled up the sofa, astride it. He had a large Bible, which nearly always lay at the head of his sofa. Many and many a time I have gone into his room and found him reading that Bible. You remember I told you about riding all night from Richmond, after selling that flour, and going into his room very early in the morning, and paying over to him the new United States Bank money. That was one of the times that I found him with the big Bible open before him on his little table, and he busy reading it. And I have seen him reading it in that way many a time. Some people, you know, say he was an atheist. Now if he was an

atheist, what did he want with all those religious books, and why did he spend so much of his time reading his Bible?

"When Chancellor Wythe died, he willed to Mr. Jefferson his library. It was very large, and nearly filled up the room of the one he sold to Congress. Mr. Jefferson studied law with Chancellor Wythe. They thought a great deal of each other.

CHAPTER X.

MR. JEFFERSON'S HOSPITALITY.

HIS VISITORS-MR. MADISON-HIS APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER-MR. MONROE -HIS ABILITY-LETTERS-A BAD MANAGER-WHAT MADE HIM PRESIDENTTHE THREE EX-PRESIDENTS TOGETHER-OTHER VISITORS CAME IN GANGSTHEIR HORSES, AND WHAT THEY CONSUMED MRS. RANDOLPH'S TROUBLE TO ENTERTAIN THEM-MR. JEFFERSON'S REASON FOR GOING TO POPLAR FOREST-REASONS OF HIS FAILURE-GOV. WILSON C. NICHOLAS-THOMAS J. RANDOLPH-REASONS FOR LEAVING MR. JEFFERSON-THE PARTING-SUBSEQUENT CORRESPONDENCE-CAPT. BACON'S OPINION OF MR. JEFFERSON— CONCLUSION.

"MR. JEFFERSON always had a great deal of company. He enjoyed seeing his friends very much. Mr. Madison was very often at Monticello. He generally stayed there when he attended Court at Charlottesville. He was a fine man. He had a very solid look. I always thought he looked like a Methodist preacher; he wore his hair as they did then. Mr. Monroe, too, was at Monticello a great deal. I have seen him hundreds of times, and done a great deal of business with him. I sold him the nails, from Mr. Jefferson's nailery, for his house. I have had a great many letters from him. He was a miserable writer. Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madi

son both wrote a plain, beautiful hand, but you could write better with your toes than Mr. Monroe wrote. I have heard Governor Morris say, that once, after Mr. Monroe had transcribed a paper, he could not read it. (Laughed heartily.) Here are two of Mr. Monroe's letters:

"SIR,-There has been a mistake in the kind of nails which I have written for. I cannot say whether you or I have made it. I wanted sixteenpenny nails, and eightpenny. Mr. Fogg will want some of the latter kind for his hog'ds, which I will thank you to add to those already written for.

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"I expect to pay you the cash at Court, or to make an arrangement to suit you.

"Your very obedient servant,

"MR. BACON. "January 8, 1810.'

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"JAS. MONROE.

"SIR,-I have rec'd, by the boy, three pounds nineteen and seven pence, the balance due me of the fifty dollars sent you this morning, after paying £11 0s. 5d. due Mr. Jefferson for nails. The statement is perfectly correct, and I am happy that it was in my power to accommodate you with the

money.

"I am respectfully yours,

"Feb. 7, 1810.'

"JAS. MONROE.