Public Ownership of Monticello: Hearing Before the Committee on the Library, United States Senate, Sixty-second Congress, Second Session, on S. J. Res. 92, a Joint Resolution Providing for the Purchase of the Home of Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, Virginia. July 9, 1912

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Page 15 - a word more: Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the statute of Virginia. Religious freedom, And father of the University of Virginia. Because of these, as testimonials that
Page 14 - my family, where I have not even a log hut to put my head into (the house of Popular Forest had passed out of his possession), and where ground for burial will depend on the depredations which, under the form of sales, shall have been committed on my property. The question, then, with me was utrum
Page 12 - 'Mr. Jefferson,"' wrote the marquis, "is* the first American who has consulted the fine arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather." In a letter dated March 3, 1912, Senator Lodge writes: I can agree with
Page 14 - 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. If it is permitted in my case, my lands here alone, with the mills, etc.. will pay everything and will leave me Monticello
Page 13 - to the exercise of a dignity from which his own moderation impelled him. when such an 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
Page 12 - commenced its construction before the American Revolution; since that epoch his life has been constantly engaged in public affairs, and he has not been able to complete the execution of the whole extent of the project which It seems he had at first conceived. That part of the building which was finished has suffered
Page 12 - runs uninterrupted in its small extent, assumes successively the names of the .West. South, and Green Mountains. It is in the part known by the name of the South Mountains that Monticello is situated. The house stands on the summit of the mountain, and the taste and arts of Europe have been consulted in the formation of its plan. Mr. Jefferson
Page 17 - as Congress shall appoint to receive it, in trust, for the sole and only purpose of establishing and maintaining at said farm of Monticello, in Virginia, an agriculture school for the purpose of educating as practical farmers children of the warrant officers of the United
Page 12 - and convenient; the decoration, both outside and inside, simple yet regular and elegant. Monticello. according to its first plan, was infinitely superior to all other houses in America in point of taste and convenience,
Page 19 - and I am sure such disposition will be made of It as best corresponds with the character of the illustrious author of the declaration of our independence, and the profound veneration with which his memory Is cherished by the American people. With profound respect. I have the honor to be Your obedient and very

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