If you approve of it, therefore, as soon as I am
through the review, I will give notice to Mr. Milligan, or any other
person whom you will name, to come on immediately. Indeed it would be
well worth while to add to his duty, that of covering the books with a
little paper (the good bindings at least), and filling the vacancies
of the presses with paper-parings, to be brought from Washington. This
would add little more to the time, as he could carry on both operations
at once.
Accept the assurance of my constant and affectionate friendship and
respect,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CXXVI.--TO JOHN ADAMS, June 10,1815
TO JOHN ADAMS.
Monticello, June 10,1815.
Dear Sir,
It is long since we have exchanged a letter, and yet what volumes might
have been written on the occurrences even of the last three months. In
the first place, peace, God bless it! has returned, to put us all
again into a course of lawful and laudable pursuits: a new trial of the
Bourbons has proved to the world their incompetence to the functions
of the station they have occupied: and the recall of the usurper has
clothed him with the semblance of a legitimate autocrat. If adversity
should have taught him wisdom, of which I have little expectation,
he may yet render some service to mankind, by teaching the ancient
dynasties that they can be changed for misrule, and by wearing down the
maritime power of England to limitable and safe dimensions.
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