Letter, 1819 October 31, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia] to [William Short], n.p.

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Letter, 1819 October 31, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia] to [William Short], n.p.

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Mentions he is recovering from a "stricture of the ilium"; identifies himself along with Short as an Epicurean, the tenets of which he discusses at length, including a syllabus of Epicurean doctrines; mentions other philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Cicero, Seneca, and the "greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country," Jesus; wishes that there was a historian who could separate Jesus' own words from those of his biographers, "the rubbish in which it is buried."

4 p. on 1 leaf ; 25 cm. x 31 cm.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Short, William, 1759-1849

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William Short was born in Surry County, Virginia, in 1759, the son of William Short and Elizabeth (Skipwith) Short. He graduated in 1779 from the College of William and Mary where he had been one of the founders of Phi Beta Kappa. He acted as Thomas Jefferson's private secretary in Paris and as secretary of legation and charge d'affairs. He was minister to The Hague. He participated in negotiations of the Pinchney Treaty with Spain. Short died in 1849. From the guide to the William S...