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Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Canby (on Jesus), September 18, 1813

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Canby (on Jesus), September 18, 1813

Thomas Jefferson September 18, 1813 Jefferson praises Jesus but says those who believe in the “those moral precepts in which all religions concur” will go to heaven. MONTICELLO, September 18, 1813 SIR, — I have duly received your favor of August 27th, am sensible of the kind intentions from which it flows, and truly thankful for them. The more so as they could only be the result of a favorable estimate of my public course. During a long life, as…

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Jefferson Condolence Letter to John Adams After the Death of Abigail

Jefferson Condolence Letter to John Adams After the Death of Abigail

Thomas Jefferson November 13, 1818 Jefferson wrote this extraordinary condolence letter upon hearing of the death of John Adams’ wife, Abigail. MONTICELLO, November 13, 1818. The public papers, my dear friend, announce the fatal event of which your letter of October the 20th had given me ominous foreboding. Tried myself in the school of affliction, by the loss of every form of connection which can rive the human heart, I know well, and feel what you have lost, what you…

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Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, June 26, 1822

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, June 26, 1822

Thomas Jefferson June 26, 1822 Jefferson believed that Christianity no longer reflected the true teachings of Jesus. DEAR SIR, — I have received and read with thankfulness and pleasure your denunciation of the abuses of tobacco and wine. Yet, however sound in its principles, I expect it will be but a sermon to the wind. You will find it as difficult to inculcate these sanative precepts on the sensualities of the present day, as to convince an Athanasian that there…

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