{"id":139904,"date":"2025-03-25T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?guid=89b94ebc1c666c1456312728acaf16f8"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:23:00","slug":"mr-jeffersons-lovesick-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=139904","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Jefferson’s Lovesick Letter!"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good
\nPresenting 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<\/p>\n

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