Be so
good as to present my sincere esteem to Mrs. Adams, and believe me
to be, with very affectionate attachment, Dear Sir, your friend and
servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CLXXIV.--TO MR. SHORT, December 8, 1788
TO MR. SHORT.
Paris, December 8, 1788.
Dear Sir,
My last to you was of the 21st of November, addressed to Milan, _poste
restante_, according to the desire expressed through Mrs. Paradise.
I have lately received yours of the 19th of November, and sincerely
felicitate you on your recovery. I wish you may have suffered this to be
sufficiently established before you set out on your journey. The present
letter will probably reach you amidst the classical enjoyments of
Rome. I feel myself kindle at the reflection, to make that journey; but
circumstances will oblige me to postpone it at least. We are here
under a most extraordinary degree of cold. The thermometer has been ten
degrees of Reaumur below freezing: this is eight degrees of Fahrenheit
above zero, and was the degree of cold here in the year 1740. The long
continuance of this severity, and the snow now on the ground, give
physical prognostications of a hard winter.
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