A Guide to the Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, 1825
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Accession Number 10794
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, 1825 January 8, Accession # 10794, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This letter was purchased by the Library from Jim Presgraves of Wytheville, Virginia, on September 28, 1988.
Scope and Content Information
This copy of a Thomas Jefferson letter, [January 8, 1825], to the physician Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) is in an unknown hand. In the letter, Jefferson expresses his religious views: "I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our State. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one Preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, altho I know there are many around me who would become so if once they could hear the question fairly stated."
Jefferson also responds to news about Mr. [John] Adams' afflictions by discussing his own dread of old age and infirmity.