Nor will it at all interfere with
his botanical rambles or journeys. The government of Portugal is so
peaceable and inoffensive, that it has never any altercations with its
friends. If their minister abroad writes them once a quarter that all is
well, they desire no more. I learn (though not from Correa himself) that
he thinks of paying us a visit as soon as he is through his course
of lectures. Not to lose this happiness again by my absence, I have
informed him I shall set out for Poplar Forest the 20th instant, and
be back the first week of July. I wish you and he could concert
your movements so as to meet here, and that you would make this your
headquarters. It is a good central point from which to visit your
connections; and you know our practice of placing our guests at their
ease, by showing them we are so ourselves, and that we follow our
necessary vocations, instead of fatiguing them by hanging unremittingly
on their shoulders.
I salute you with affectionate esteem and respect.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CXXXIII.*--TO BENJAMIN AUSTIN, January 9, 1816
TO BENJAMIN AUSTIN.
Monticello, January 9, 1816.
[* This letter was accidentally misplaced, and is now
inserted out of its regular order.]
Dear Sir,
I acknowledge with pleasure your letter of the 9th of December last.
Your opinions on the events which have taken place in France, are
entirely just, so far as these events are yet developed.
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