Jefferson at Forty-six

Photogravure reproduced from the Bust by Jean Antoine Houdon, in the Rooms of the New York Historical Library

Jefferson paid Houdon, on July 3, 1789, one thousand francs for the original marble bust, which was destroyed at Monticello during Jefferson's lifetime, by the carelessness of a workman. Fortunately there are two signed plaster casts of this bust, owned respectively by the New York Historical Society and the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia.

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THE WRITINGS OF

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Library Edition

CONTAINING HIS

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NOTES ON VIRGINIA, PARLIA-
MENTARY MANUAL, OFFICIAL PAPERS,
MESSAGES AND ADDRESSES, AND OTHER
WRITINGS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE,
NOW COLLECTED AND

PUBLISHED IN THEIR ENTIRETY FOR THE FIRST TIME INCLUDING

All of the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, Deposited in THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND PUBLISHED IN 1853 BY ORDER OF THE

JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

AND

A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICAL INDEX

ANDREW A. LIPSCOMB, Chairman Board of Governors

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ALBERT ELLERY BERGH

MANAGING EDITOR

VOL. II.

ISSUED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF

THE THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

OF THE UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON, D. C.

302 7√47 17.2

COPYRIGHT, 1903,

BY

THE THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
ASSOCIATION