[PW] ? Thomas Jefferson Quotation

[Sue Kamm]

You could ask the helpful folks at Monticello:  http://www.monticello.org/contact.html

I've put questions to them and found them to respond quickly.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "King, Krista C" <kcking3 at uky.edu>
>Sent: Sep 26, 2007 7:38 AM
>To: "list at project-wombat.org" <list at project-wombat.org>
>Subject: Re: [PW] ? Thomas Jefferson Quotation
>
>Bruce,
>
>I tried searching the texts of several digitized documents, but was unsuccessful. However, you may have more time than I do to go into more detail some of these databases I found on Jefferson.
>
>Navigating through the American National Biography database, at the end of the entry for Thomas Jefferson, there was a link to the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, which has a specific portion dedicated to "The Thomas Jefferson Papers".
>
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/index.html
>
>Is there a date or a range of dates that goes with the quote? I searched several correspondances b/t Jefferson and Madison and couldn't find this quote or a close variant of.
>
>Good Luck!
>
>Krista King
>Graduate Assistant
>Reference Department
>William T. Young Library
>L.I.S.S.O. Secretary
>kcking3 at uky.edu
>
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>— Inscription on the Berlin Royal Library.
>
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>From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org [project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of Thornlow, Bruce [Thornlowb at ndu.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:43 AM
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>Subject: [PW] ? Thomas Jefferson Quotation
>
>Are there any Jeffersonian scholars out there who can tell me the
>original source for the following quote?
>
>                "We have not heard from our ambassador in Paris for
>years. If we have not heard from him by the end of the year, let us
>write him a letter."
>                        - President Jefferson to Secretary of State
>Madison.
>Another variation of the quote is:
>"We have not heard from our ambassador in Paris for two years. If we do
>not hear from him by the end of this year, let us write him a letter."
>Thank you in advance -
>Bruce
>
>
>Bruce S. Thornlow
>Reference Librarian
>thornlowb at ndu.edu
>202-685-3521
>
>
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