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I'm away from my files this morning, but the Monticello website cites
Dumas Malone's transcription of the letter -

  1858. Ellen Randolph Coolidge letter to Joseph Coolidge, 24 October
  1858, in Dumas Malone, "Mr. Jefferson's Private Life," Proceedings
  of the American Antiquarian Society (April 1974), 1-8.

which I will compare this evening with the Gordon-Reed transcription.

Jon Kukla


> I see that the Frontline website for the program "Jefferson's Blood" has
> the
> incorrect transcription of the Coolidge letter, which is very unfortunate.
> The original letter is at UVA: Coolidge Family Papers, Acc. No. 9090,
> Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
>
> Henry Wiencek
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