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Mr. Jefferson’s Lovesick Letter!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
Presenting a portrait of the charming Maria (Hadfield) Cosway, wife of painter Richard Cosway, and object of a lovesick Thomas Jefferson, envoy to France, whose romantic letter to the married lady dated October 12, 1786 is a famous relic of the long-ago yearning of our third president, the attributed author of the Declaration of Independence – for the