Public Ownership of Monticello: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives of S. Con. Res. 24, Wednesday, July 24, 1912 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 78 páginas |
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... Cordially and sincerely , yours , Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON , Washington , D. C. WOODROW WILSON . The CHAIRMAN . Your address shows much painstaking labor and extensive research into records and heretofore undiscovered archives , and I ...
... Cordially and sincerely , yours , Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON , Washington , D. C. WOODROW WILSON . The CHAIRMAN . Your address shows much painstaking labor and extensive research into records and heretofore undiscovered archives , and I ...
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... Cordially and sincerely , yours , Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON , WOODROW WILSON . Washington , D. C. CONGRESS HOTEL AND ANNEX , Chicago , May 20 , 1912 . DEAR MRS . LITTLETON : Your very excellent review of the accomplishments of Thomas ...
... Cordially and sincerely , yours , Mrs. MARTIN W. LITTLETON , WOODROW WILSON . Washington , D. C. CONGRESS HOTEL AND ANNEX , Chicago , May 20 , 1912 . DEAR MRS . LITTLETON : Your very excellent review of the accomplishments of Thomas ...
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... cordially , yours , ELIZABETH POPE MCLEMORE . FRANKLIN , TENN . , June 26 , 1912 . MY DEAR MRS . LITTLETON : I take pleasure in sending you a resolution adopted by our United Daughters of the Confederacy State convention in May . I hear ...
... cordially , yours , ELIZABETH POPE MCLEMORE . FRANKLIN , TENN . , June 26 , 1912 . MY DEAR MRS . LITTLETON : I take pleasure in sending you a resolution adopted by our United Daughters of the Confederacy State convention in May . I hear ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Cordially , EDWARD J. WHEELER , Editor Current Literature . MARION , OHIO , May 31 , 1912 . Mrs. MARTIN LITTLETON , Port Washington , Long Island . MY DEAR MADAME : I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your beautiful and very interesting ...
... Cordially , EDWARD J. WHEELER , Editor Current Literature . MARION , OHIO , May 31 , 1912 . Mrs. MARTIN LITTLETON , Port Washington , Long Island . MY DEAR MADAME : I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your beautiful and very interesting ...
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Página 32 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 12 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 9 - Mr. Jefferson is the first American who has consulted the fine arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.
Página 12 - Reflecting on these things, the practice occurred to me, of selling, on fair valuation, and by way of lottery, often resorted to before the Revolution to effect large sales, and still in constant usage in every State for individual as well as corporation purposes.
Página 12 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 10 - ... of a hundred miles, far beyond James River; and on the left as far as Maryland, on the other side of the Potomac. Through some intervals formed by the irregular summits of the Blue Mountains, you discover the Peaked Ridge, a chain of mountains placed between the Blue and North Mountains, another more distant ridge. But in the back part the prospect is soon interrupted by a mountain more elevated than that on which the house is seated. The bounds of the view on this point, at so small a distance,...
Página 9 - No sound to break the silence, but a brook That bubbling winds among the weeds : no mark Of any human shape that had been there, Unless a skeleton of some poor wretch, Who had long since, like me, by love undone, Sought that sad place out to despair and die in.
Página 11 - ... example was most salutary to withdraw, and who, while he dedicates the evening of his glorious days to the pursuits of science and literature, shuns none of the humbler duties of private life, but, having...
Página 12 - Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia; because by these as testimonials that I have lived I wish most to be remembered.
Página 12 - The friendship which has subsisted between us, now half a century, and the harmony of our political principles and pursuits, have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period.