But I perceive that my wishes to see the weight of no objection where
you are interested, are leading me to write an argument, where I had
promised I would say only a word. I will, therefore, talk the subject
over with you at Monticello, or Pen-park. I have asked of Congress a
leave of five or six months' absence next year, that I may carry my
daughters home, and assist in the arrangement of my affairs. I shall
pass two of the months at Monticello, that is to say, either June and
July, or July and August, according to the time I may sail, which I hope
will be in April: and then go on to New York and Boston, from whence I
shall embark again for Europe, so as to get here before the winter sets
in. I look forward with great fondness to the moment, when I can again
see my own country and my own neighbors, and endeavor to anticipate as
little as possible the pain of another separation from them. I hope
I shall find you all under the peaceable establishment of the new
constitution, which, as far as I can judge from public papers, seems to
have become necessary for the happiness of our country.
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