While, in making these observations, my situation points
my attention to the warfare of man in the physical world, yours may
perhaps present him as equally warring in the moral one.
Adieu. Yours affectionately.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CCIV.--TO MR. VOLNEY, January 8, 1797
TO MR. VOLNEY.
Monticello, January 8, 1797.
Dear Sir,
I received yesterday your two favors of December the 26th and 29th. Your
impatience to receive your valise and its key was natural: and it is we
who have been to blame; Mr. Randolph, for not taking information of the
vessel and address to which your valise was committed, and myself, for
having waited till I heard of your being again immerged into the land of
newspapers before forwarded your key. However, as you have at length got
them safe, I claim absolution under the proverb, that 'all is well which
ends well.'
About the end of 1793, I received from Mr. Dombey (then at Lyons)
a letter announcing his intention to come here. And in May, 1794, I
received one from a M. L'Epine, dated from New York, and stating himself
to be master of the brig De Boon, Captain Brown, which had sailed from
Havre with Mr. Dombey on board, who had sealed up his baggage and wrote
my address on them, to save them in case of capture; and that when they
were taken, the address did in fact protect them.
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