Thank you very much. Regards, Franklin Bell.

Karen Stuart wrote:

> > {America's Undeclared War} by Daniel Lazare (reviewed in the June 4 {The
> > New Yorker} Briefly Noted column) reportedly contains a letter by Thomas
> > Jefferson "suggesting", says the review, "that yellow fever might be
> > beneficial in reducing city populations."
>
> Probably this one...
>
> Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush
> Monticello, Sep. 23, 1800.
>
> Dear Sir,--I have to acknolege the receipt of your favor of Aug. 22, and
> to congratulate you on the healthiness of your city. Still Baltimore,
> Norfolk & Providence admonish us that we are not clear of our new
> scourge. When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for
> what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in
> fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means
> of producing some good. The yellow fever will discourage the growth of
> great cities in our nation, & I view great cities as pestilential to the
> morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of
> the elegant arts, but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere, and less
> perfection in the others, with more health, virtue & freedom, would be my
> choice....
>
> [transcription from The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes.
> Federal Edition. Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford.]
>
> Search the words "yellow fever" at
> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
>
> Karen Stuart
>
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