...The public papers, my dear friend, announce the fatal event of which your letter of October the aoth had given me ominous foreboding. Tried myself in the...you and support you under your heavy affliction. TO ROBERT WALSH. MONTICELLO, December 4, 1818. DEAR SIR, —Yours of November the 8th has been some time...

...wrote, "The term is not very distant when we are to deposit in the same cerement our sorrows and our suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic...and whom we shall still love and never lose again." Thomas Jefferson was neither a hypocrite nor a coward. These utterances were not thus made to curry...

...Religion v "The term is not very distant when we are to deposit in the same cerement our sorrows and our suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic...and whom we shall still love and never lose again." Thomas Jefferson was neither a hypocrite nor a coward. These utterances were not thus made to curry...

...by useless condolences, open afresh the sluices of your grief, nor, although RECOGNITION AFTER DEATH mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say...you and support you under your heavy affliction." Adams to Jefferson: "December 8, 1818. "Your letter of November 13th gave great delight, not only by...

...friend, announce the fatal event ' of which your letter of October the 2oth 1 The death of Mrs. Adams. had given me ominous foreboding. Tried myself in the...you and support you under your heavy affliction. To Fine Utley MONTICELLO, March 21, 1819 SIR, — Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the...

..."The public papers, my dear friend, announce the fatal event of which your letter of October the 20th had given me ominous foreboding. Tried myself in the...you and support you under your heavy affliction." This letter indicates, perhaps, more clearly than anything Jefferson ever wrote, the character of his...

...piety that even included, as he grew older, the hope (as he wrote John Adams) that after death we might "ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the...and whom we shall still love and never lose again," and he believed the resurrection would be one that Jesus saw as material.81 Justice Frankfurter, in...

...his time of grief, that in death the true, immortal "essence" of the human individual would "ascend to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved...lost, and whom we shall still love and never lose again."87 A study of Jefferson's ideas about life after death is rewarding for many reasons. Jefferson...

...Abigail, Jefferson wrote in the most tender of terms to comfort him and bid him to look forward to that "ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and...shall still love and never lose again. God bless you," Jefferson concluded, "and support you under your heavy affliction." In a poem written for his surviving...

...grieving friend Adams by saying that in the "not very distant time both of us" will join "an enthusiastic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again." These words, seldom cited, in essence compose a declaration of independence from the tyranny of death....