Phebe,

I also enjoyed this book. I'm not sure I remember a mention in the book 
about TJ's obsession with "body fluids", but he had a number of scientific 
interests. Or, are you referring to his young manhood when he claimed to 
know how men could relieve their sexual frustrations in a simple (but 
secret) means.

From the book, it seems that TJ confined his sharing of body fluids to his 
wife, and to Sally, although he may have spilled some during his studency 
that never made it into any publications. He never seemed to have scored 
with Mrs. Walker, or with Mrs. Cosway, although he did succeed in making a 
fool of himself with both.

I just read another book on Jefferson, quite a different side of him than 
Jon Kukla explores, in "A Magnificent Catastrophe" by Edward J. Larson. In 
this book the election of 1800 is explored including Jefferson's use of the 
press to spread lies about Adams and the Federalists, then as president, 
wanted to prosecute those who published unflattering accounts of himself 
under the Sedition Act in PA (after opposing Adam's Sedition Act). When 
Jefferson wrote, he showed his nobler side, but in how he acted in life, 
that baser side came out.

Anne

Anne Pemberton
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