Thomas Jefferson's Letters

Thomas Jefferson wrote nearly 19,000 (!!) letters in his lifetime. ✉️🖋️
In honor of #LetterWritingDay, join us for a live Q&A with Thomas Jefferson, interpreted by Bill Barker, on Tuesday, December 7, at 1:00 p.m. ET. We will discuss Jefferson’s voluminous correspondence, important letters he wrote on difficult or sensitive issues, and some of the more interesting letters he received.

[@cherylb6755]

Dear my Mr. Jefferson~ I may be late to this party, but I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Barker's interpretation of your esteemed self. I shall commence playing Catch-up of the videos available here and look forward to more time in the esteemed company of both you and Mr. Barker! Thank you kind sir! An admirer of long standing... from the future.

[@bolzanostrangelove2621]

So cool!!😄

[@hatless_spider]

I'm sad I was late for this. I believe Mr. Jefferson discussed his ideas of agrarianism mostly through letters. Would it be possible for him to do a discussion on this topic and how his beliefs in that being a better system effected some of his policies and laws he helped implement?

[@pendragon2012]

Love this! Mr. Jefferson is correct that the postal service is vital to national life!

[@akashs8819]

These are not his letters. Nobody can speak like him today.

[@reneestaples4963]

I would like to see Mr. Jefferson address the issue of himself and Sally Hemings. He wrote about his children by Sally, and how he trained them in trades before they were freed at his death.