you about. Would you that I
should write nothing but truth? I tell you I know nothing that is
true. Or would you rather that I should write you a pack of lies? Why,
unless they were more ingenious than I am able to invent, they would
furnish you with little amusement. What can I do then? Nothing, but
ask you the news in your world. How have you done since I saw you?
How did Nancy look at you when you danced with her at Southall's?
Have you any glimmering of hope? How does R. B. do? Had I better stay
here and do nothing, or go down and do less? or in other words, had I
better stay here while I am here, or go down that I may have the
pleasure of sailing up the river again in a full-rigged flat? You must
know that as soon as the Rebecca (the name I intend to give the vessel
above mentioned) is completely finished, I intend to hoist sail and
away. I shall visit particularly, England, Holland, France, Spain,
Italy, (where I would buy me a good fiddle,) and Egypt, and return
through the British provinces to the northward, home. This, to be
sure, would take us two or three years, and if we should not both be
cured of love in that time, I think the devil would be in it.

T. JEFFERSON."

Many of these letters are written from "Devilsburg," which was the
college name for the metropolitan city in the days of yore. The reader
is referred to the first volume of Mr. Tucker's Life of Jefferson.

We shall make but one addition to our chronicle of those former
personages and their boyish pranks, and that shall be a quotation:

"On the 1st of January, 1772, I was married to Martha Skelton, widow
of Bathurst Skelton, and daughter of John Wayles, then twenty-three
years old."

See his memoir of himself.

FINIS.

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