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SCI LIBRARY

The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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ADAMS, JOHN / A PERSONAL THOUGHT



Of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, I see now living not more than half a dozen on your side of the Potomac, and on this side, myself alone. You and I have been wonderfully spared, and myself with remarkable health, and a considerable activity of body and mind. I am on horseback three or four hours of every day; visit three or four times a year a possession I have ninety miles distant, performing the winter journey on horseback.

to John Adams, 21 January 1812