able testimony by their verdict on those calumnies. At the
end of the next four years I shall certainly retire. Age, inclination,
and principle all dictate this. My health, which at one time threatened
an unfavorable turn, is now firm. The acquisition of Louisiana, besides
doubling our extent, and trebling our quantity of fertile country, is
of incalculable value, as relieving us from the danger of war. It has
enabled us to do a handsome thing for Fayette. He had received a grant
of between eleven and twelve thousand acres north of the Ohio, worth,
perhaps, a dollar an acre. We have obtained permission of Congress to
locate it in Louisiana. Locations can be found adjacent to the city of
New Orleans, in the island of New Orleans and in its vicinity, the value
of which cannot be calculated. I hope it will induce him to come over
and settle there with his family. Mr. Livingston having asked leave to
return, General Armstrong, his brother-in-law, goes in his place: he is
of the first order of talents.

Remarkable deaths lately, are, Samuel Adams, Edmund Pendleton, Alexander
Hamilton, Stephens Thompson Mason, Mann Page, Bellini, and Parson
Andrews. To these I have the inexpressible grief of adding the name of
my youngest daughter, who had married a son of Mr. Eppes, and has
left two children. My eldest daughter alone remains to me, and has six
children. This loss has increased my anxiety to retire, while it has
dreadfully lessened the comfort of doing it. Wythe, Dickinson, and
Charles Thomson are all living, and are firm republicans. You informed
me formerly of your marriage, and your having a daughter, but have said
nothing in you late letters on that subject. Yet whatever concerns your
happiness is sincerely interesting to me, and is a subject of anxiety,
retaining, as I do, cordial sentiments of esteem and affection for you.
Accept, I pray you, my sincere assurances of this, with my most friendly
salutations.

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER XV.--TO MRS. ADAMS, July 22, 1804

TO MRS. ADAMS.

Washington, July 22, 1804.

Dear Madam,

Your favor of the 1st instant was duly received, and I would not again
have intruded on you, but to rectify certain facts which seem not to
have been presented to you under their true aspect. My charities to
Callendar are considered as rewards for his calumnies. As early, I
think, as 1796, I was told in Philadelphia, that Callendar, the author
of the 'Political Progress of Britain,' was