For what Jefferson did was for the whole people, and every citizen of the Republic should feel a pride in the grandeur and magnitude of his achievements a veneration for his memory equal to that universally cherished for Washington. Your "one wish" is ours also. Hoping that your patriotic labor of love may bring about its complete realization, Very cordially yours, Mrs. OWEN WALKER. TENNESSEE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. TO THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE, Washington, D. C.: Tennessee Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in convention assembled at Dayton, Tenn., May, 1912, passed the following resolution, offered by Mrs. Owen Walker, division historian : "Tennessee Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, indorses most heartily the movement inaugurated by Mrs. Martin Littleton asking Congress to purchase Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, that it may be preserved as a national memorial of the great author of the Declaration of Independence and our greatest southern statesman." Respectfully, Mrs. HARRIET HOLLAND, Recording Secretary Tennessee Division, BLOOMINGTON, ILL., March 14, 1912. 66 MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: Please accept my grateful thanks for your most charming and suggestive letter to your "Long Island friends." Your one wish" touches a responsive cord in my loyal heart, for I was born, reared, and married in the midst of Jeffersonian principles, and I would humbly follow in your work, and wish that the historic home and the desecrated graves might become the Nation's or the Daughters' property and kept sacred to the memory of America's greatest statesman. Again thanking you for your kindly remembrance, I am, Cordially, yours, LETITIA GREEN STEVENSON. (Mrs. A. E. Stevenson.) BLOOMINGTON, ILL., June 19, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: Yours of the 11th was received in due time and awakened anew my personal interest in the purchase of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. If I were 10 years younger and physically strong, it would give me infinite joy to take part in the great endeavors undertaken by patriotic women of the day. However, deeply as I regret the fact, I must admit that a serious illness of several months' duration, and from which I have not yet fully recovered, renders it impossible either to make the trip to Washington or to address the library committee on July 2. Please know how fully I appreciate your kind thought and how much pleasure it has given me to know that in the lapse of years I have not been wholly forgotten by the distinguished women of whom America is justly proud. Again with cordial thanks for your beautiful courtesy, and with tender regret that I am unable to assist you in your great undertaking, and with best wishes for perfect success, I am, Sincerely, yours, LETITIA G. STEVENSON. (Mrs. A. E. Stevenson.) S EAST SIXTY-THIRD STREET, March 24, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: Many thanks for your printed letter, which I have read with great interest and pleasure. I join in your Yours, very truly, Mrs. MARTIN LITTLETON. "wish." JOSEPH H. CHOATE. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB, MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I desire to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation to appear before the congressional committee which is to pass upon the propriety of purchasing the home of Thomas Jefferson by the United States Government. I regret that plans long since formed will prevent my attendance at the time indicated. I heartily favor, however, the purchase by the Government of Monticello. While Thomas Jefferson was the founder of the Democratic Party, the benefits of his personal achievements were not limited in scope to mere party lines; on the contrary, the country at large was enriched more thereby than by the acts of any other individual in our history save Washington. The house of Washington has long since been the property of our Federal Government, and the same reasons which induced Congress to acquire Mount Vernon should also impel it to acquire the home of the patriot who penned the Declaration of Independence and who made our present greatness possible by the purchase of Louisiana. Respectfully, THOMAS F. DONNELLY, President National Democratic Club. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF WISCONSIN, Mrs. MARTIN LITTLETON, Littlecote, Port Washington, Long Island. Milwaukee, April 18, 1912. DEAR MADAM: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the booklet entitled "One Wish." I shall treasure it very highly, and give you the assurance that I, too, believe that the United States Government should acquire for the people of this country Monticello, "the birthplace, home, and burial place of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence" and the father of Democracy in this country. Hoping that your "wish" will find a sympathetic response in Congress and that it will be carried out for the edification of the liberty-loving people of the world, I am, with expressions of great respect, Very truly, yours, FRANK B. SCHUTZ. VIRGINIA STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE, Mrs. MARTIN LITTLETON, Calumet Place, Washington, D. C. DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: Your esteemed favor of June 11 received. I am afraid that I shall not have the pleasure of being present at the hearing before the committee on July 2, but would be very happy indeed to comply with your request in this respect, but my engagements at this time make it impossible. With cordial assurances of my appreciation of your patriotic work, I am, Very sincerely, yours, J. TAYLOR ELLYSON. Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON, THE THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Littlecote, Port Washington, Long Island. MY DEAR MADAM: Less than one hour ago I received your "One wish," and read it very closely and with profound interest. Would that you could but realize your One wish." You should. This has, and ever will be until realized, been the wish of myself and tens of thousands who revere the memory of Jefferson. Speed the day. 66 With sincere gratulations and many thanks, I am, W. S. MCKEAN, Mrs. MARTIN LITTLETON, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERAN ASSOCIATION, Calumet Place, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I have yours of June 12. It will be impossible for me to be in Washington on July 2. Since my election as commander in chief I have so many calls on my time that I can not get away just at the close of our judicial term. However, I am sending you the letter you desire. I don't know that it will be of any service to you, but I am very glad to render you any aid in my power. On reflection, I am writing a letter to Senator Shively, who happens to be a pretty close friend of mine, and he can lay it before the committee. Always wishing you well, and hoping for success in this undertaking, believe me, Very truly, yours, BENNETT H. YOUNG. Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON, Port Washington, Long Island. UNION, OREG., March 14, 1912. DEAR MADAM: It is a poor commentary on the patriotism of a mighty nation like ours that its "master builders" are forgotten in the drift of commercialism, and if such shrines are to be rescued from oblivion it will be because of woman's work. Every instinct of patriotism calls upon America to redeem these sacred spots to their rightful place among the world's shrines, and I sincerely congratulate you upon the part you have taken in this great mission. Thanking you for the beautiful and most interesting brochure so full of inspiring, patriotic sentiment, I am Sincerely, yours, CORA M. DAVIS, National President of Woman's Relief Corps. MAGNOLIA, June 13, 1912. DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I have sent your letters to Mr. H. J. Coolidge for whom it was probably intended. It would be impossible for me physically to go to Washington, but I take the greatest interest in your endeavor to secure Monticello for the Nation. My old friend, the late Senator Hoar, from Massachusetts, although a very strong Republican, thought the United States should acquire the property and talked a little of moving in the matter himself. Thanking you for your efforts in so good a cause, T. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE. 66 "THE POPLARS," March 25, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: Thank you very much for sending me One Wish." You have so beautifully expressed a wish that has always been mine. Nothing could give me more pleasure than to see Monticello belong to the Nation. It is the only thing that could compensate me for the fact that it has passed out of the possession of my own family. Mr. Levy has no children. I have often thought how beautiful a thing it would be for him to leave it to the Nation. I believe he would be much more apt to do so than to sell it. For the Nation to care for the home Jefferson loved so well, overlooking our beautiful university, the child of his old age, is certainly the monument that I, his great great granddaughter most desire for him, and I feel your "One Wish" will do much to accomplish this end. Most sincerely, VIRGINIA RANDOLPH SHACKELFORD. Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON, Port Washington, Long Island, N. Y. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Staunton, Va., April 11, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I have read with interest and admiration your handsome paper, entitled, "One wish," and am writing to acknowledge its receipt, and to thank you for sending it to me; and with the acknowledgment and thanks to express to you my hearty concurrence in your desire to have Mr. Jefferson's home on the Little Mountain" become the possession of the United States Government. 66 I was born and reared and lived until manhood almost in sight of Monticello. Its great owner was a close personal and political friend of my grandfather, Gen. William Fitzhugh Gordon, who was one of Mr. Jefferson's most influential assistants, along with Mr. Joseph C. Cablee, in the Legislature of Virginia, in his last work of establishing the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, of which I an alumnus. These associations, together with my official relation to the University through many years, as its rector (or presiding officer of its board of visitors), a position held by Mr. Jefferson himself, and later by Presidents Madison and Monroe, have concurred to make me familiar with his illustrious career as statesman and philosopher, and to cause me to feel a deep and abiding personal interest in all things pertaining to him and to his memory. Not only the Federal Government, but his own Commonwealth of Virginia, has been unduly oblivious of his fame, in the lack of a public recognition of their greatest citizen; and, until a year or two ago, when we unveiled at the University of Virginia a bronze statue of heroic size, by Ezekiel, on the grounds of that institution, there existed nowhere in Virginia an out-doors memorial of Jefferson, except the statue forming a unit of the group at the base of the equestrian monument to Washington in Richmond. If it were possible for me to do anything to aid you in your laudable enterprise of securing Monticello for the United States Government, and of making it a worthy Mecca of democracy in America, I should be highly gratified. I fear, however, that Mr. Levy's attitude toward your project will remain during bis lifetime a permanent obstacle. Thanking you again for sending me your paper, I am, with great respect, ARMISTEAD C. GORDON. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, April 26, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I have read your pamphlet on the purchase of Monticello. It is a striking appeal to the heart and sympathies of the Nation, and at least to the democratic element of the Nation. If your husband gets a bill looking to the purchase of this fine old estate before Congress I shall be glad to write to any southern or western Members whom I know urging them to vote for the measure. The present ownership of Jefferson's home is a sad comment on the efficacy of wills. Press the subject for a hearing in season and out of season. I thank you for your kind reference to my article on the southern statesmen. Yours, sincerely, WM. E. DODD. PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Brooklyn, N. Y., June 21, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: Your letter and suggestion have just reached me. I am very much interested in your plan for the recovery of Monticello to the people of the United States, and deeply regret the imperative engagements that make it necessary for me to be in another part of the country on the day appointed for the hearing. But I shall be delighted to send a letter to the committee and to use what little influence I have to further your work, which can not be praised too highly. Your statement of the facts in the case has appealed to the imagination of the people, and has awakened a great popular interest in the subject, and from what I hear in different cities I am inclined to think that you have already won your victory. I hope you will present my warmest regards to your husband, and tell him I look forward to the convention that will nominate him. With warmest congratulations upon your work, and will all good wishes to the Congressman and yourself, I am, my dear Mrs. Littleton, Faithfully, yours, Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON, Calumet Place, Washington, D. C. NEWELL D. HILLIS. 30 WEST FIFTY-FOURTH STREET, April 7, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I received your pamphlet inclosing a copy of the testament of Uriah P. Levy, which I read with astonishment and interest. I was also impressed with the contents of your pamphlet, so eloquently and picturesquely written and making such a forceful and noble plea for governmental acquisition of Monticello and the grave of the framer of our sublime Declaration of Independence. I have always thought that Jefferson's grave should be the property of the people of the United States, and I have impressed this frequently on my friend, Mr. T. Jefferson Levy. It is to the credit and honor of Mr. Levy, the present proprietor of Monticello, that he is a generous host and throws his estate open to the public. At the same time there appears to have been some miscarriage of justice, as the abiding wish and intent of the former owner, Uriah P. Levy, was clearly manifested in his testament. I do not know what course of action you and your friends propose pursuing in the premises, but I cheerfully approve of your action in having the terms of said instrument literally carried out and in thus securing for the people of our country and in preserving for posterity the house, grounds, and graveyard of Thomas Jefferson. Sincerely, ISAAC N. SELIGMAN. LESLIE'S, New York, June 12, 1912. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I have yours, and am heartily in favor of public ownership of Monticello. Perhaps you have noticed the inclosed in a recent issue of Leslie's. I expect to be in Washington the first week in July and, if so, I shall be very glad to, attend the hearing and do what I can to aid in the patriotic effort you are making. Sincerely, yours, Mrs. MARTIN LITTLETON, Calumet Place, Washington, D. C. JOHN A. SLEICHER. Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON, NEW YORK, March 23, 1912. Calumet Place, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MRS. LITTLETON: I haven't thanked you for the Jefferson brochure you sent me several weeks ago. I have just finished reading it, and it has a |