Thomas Jefferson Letter - Word Tips - Page 1

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="3" width=465 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div>                     Paris Aug. 17 1788</div> <div>      The urn is well worth worth acceptance, my dear madam, on it's own</div> <div> account for it is a perfect beauty. but it is more flattering to me to</div> <div> accept it on account of the giver. I shall preserve it as sacred as i would</div> <div> the urns of my forefathers, had I all of them from Adam to the present</div> <div> day, and with this difference of estimation that it recalls to my mind</div> <div> a living friend. The memorial of me which you have from Trumbul</div> <div> is of the most worthless part of me. Could he paint my friendship to</div> <div> you, it would be something out of the common line. I should have</div> <div> been happy indeed to have made a third at Down place with</div> <div> yourself & miss Cosway. Your society would have been amusement</div> <div> enough for me. I never blame heaven as much as for having</div> <div> clogged the etherial spirit of friendship with a body which ties</div> <div> it to time & place. I am with you always in spirit: be you</div> <div> with me sometimes.         I have in contemplation to visit</div> <div> America in the Spring, as Madame de Corny has mentioned to you.</div> <div> I have not as yet asked a Conge, because, till the new govern-</div> <div> ment is in activity, I know not to whom to address my request.</div> <div> I presume it will not be denied me. The project of carrying with</div> <div> me colonies of animals & plants for my native country, will oblige</div> <div> me to embark at Havre, as being the nearest port. This is but</div> <div> twenty hours distant from London. Can you, my dear madam,</div> <div> sacrifice twenty hours of your life to make my daughters & myself</div> <div>                                                           happy?</div> <div> Mrs Church</div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=28 BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="550" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 18 WIDTH="41"><div> <B>  </B><A HREF="../embedding_transcripts_in_handwritten_pages.php" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Embedding Transcripts in Handwritten Pag"><U><B><IMG SRC="469110e0.gif" border=0 width="17" height="14" ALT="Home" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="44"><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="23"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> (Page 01 of 02)<B> </B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="44"><div> <B><IMG SRC="5c8170e0.gif" border=0 width="23" height="14" ALT="Last Page Reached" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="80"><div> <B>Word Tips</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="88"><div> <A HREF="line_tips___page_2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thomas Jefferson Letter Line Tips Page"><U>Line Tips</U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Thomas Jefferson Letter</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=436 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=16 BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700a000000000.png" HEIGHT="11" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Word Tips - Page 1</B>   |   <A HREF="word_tips___page_2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thomas Jefferson Letter Word Tips Page"><U>Word Tips - Page 2</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>