And if of no other value, the present communication
may amuse you with anecdotes not known to every one.
I had meant to have added some views on the amalgamation of parties, to
which your favor of the 8th has some allusion; an amalgamation of name,
but not of principle. Tories are tories still, by whatever name they may
be called. But my letter is already too unmercifully long, and I close
it here with assurances of my great esteem and respectful consideration.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CLXXXIII.--TO EDWARD EVERETT, October 15, 1824
TO EDWARD EVERETT.
Monticello, October 15, 1824.
Dear Sir,
I have yet to thank you for your O. B. K. oration, delivered in presence
of General la Fayette. It is all excellent, much of it sublimely so,
well worthy of its author and his subject, of whom we may truly say, as
was said of Germanicus, '_Fruitur fama sui_.'
Your letter of September the 10th gave me the first information that
mine to Major Cartwright had got into the newspapers; and the first
notice, indeed, that he had received it. I was a stranger to his person,
but not to his respectable and patriotic character. I received from him
a long and interesting letter, and answered it with frankness, going
without reserve into several subjects, to which his letter had led,
but on which I did not suppose I was writing for the newspapers. The
publication of a letter in such a case, without the consent of the
writer, is not a fair practice.
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