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<h4>Page 1</h4>
<br /><p>Shadwell, July 15'th 1763<br />Dear Page</p>
<br /><br /><p>Yours of May 30'th came safe to hand. The rival you mentioned I know not whether<br />to think formidable or not as there has been so great an opening for him during my absence.<br />I say <q>has been</q> because I expect there is one no longer since you have undertaken to act as my<br />attorney. You advise me to 'go immediately and lay siege in form.' You certainly did not think<br />at the time you wrote this of that paragraph in my letter wherein I mentioned to you my<br />resolution of going to Britain. And to begin an affair of that kind now, and carry it on so long<br />a time in form is by no means a proper plan. No, no, Page, whatever assurances I may give<br />her in private of my esteem for her, or whatever assurances I may ask in return from her,<br />depend on it they must be kept in private. Necessity will oblige me to proceed in a method<br />which is not generally thought fair, that of treating with a ward before obtaining the ap=<br />probation of her guardian. I say necessity will oblige me to it, because I never can bear to<br />remain in suspense so long a time. If I am to succeed the sooner I know it the less unea=<br />siness I shall have to go through : if I am to meet with a disappointment the sooner I know<br />it the more of life I shall have to wear it off: and if I do meet with one, I hope in god<br />and verily believe it will be the last. I assure you that I allmost envy you your present<br />freedom: and if Belinda will not accept of my service it shall never be offered to another.<br />That she may I pray most sincerely, but that she will she never gave me reason to hope. With regard<br />to my not proceeding in form I do not know how She may like it : I am afraid not much:<br />that her guardians would not if they should know of it is very certain. But I should think<br />that if they were consulted after my return, it would be sufficient. The greatest inconveni=<br />ence would be my not having the liberty of visiting so freely. This is a subject worth your<br /><br /></p>
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<p>talking over with her; and I wish you would and would transmit me your whole confab at<br />length. I should be scared to death at making her so unreasonable a proposal as that of wai=<br />=ting until I returned from Britain, unless she could be first prepared for it. I am afraid it<br />will make my chance of succeeding considerably worse. But the event at last must be this,<br />that if she consents I shall be happy; if she does not, I must endeavor to be as much so as<br />possible. I have thought a good deal on your case, and as mine may perhaps be similar<br />I must endeavor to look on it in the same light in which I have often advised you to look<br />on yours. Perfect happiness I beleive was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any<br />of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the near=<br />ness of our approaches to it, is what I steadfastly beleive. The most fortunate of us all<br />in our journey through life frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may<br />greatly afflict us: and to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and mis=<br />=fortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only me=<br />=thod of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the divine will, to consider that<br />whatever does happen, must happen, and that by our uneasiness we cannot prevent the<br />blow before it does fall, but we may add to it's force after it has fallen. These consi=<br />=derations and others such as these may enable us in some measure to surmount the<br />difficulties thrown in our way, to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under<br />this burthen of life, and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation till we ar=<br />=rive at our journey's end, where we may deliver up our trust into the hands of him who<br />gave it, and receive such reward as to him shall seem proportioned to our merit. Such<br />dear Page, will be the language of the man who considers his situation in this life, and<br /><br /></p>
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<p>such should be the language of every man who would wish to render that situation as<br />easy as the nature of it will admit. Few things will disturb him at all; nothing will dis=<br />=turb him much.</p>
<br /><br /><p>If this letter was to fall into the hands of some of our gay acquaintance, your corres=<br />=pondent and his solemn notions would probably be the subjects of a great deal of mirth and<br />raillery, but to you I think I can venture to send it. It is in effect but a continuation<br />of the many conversations we have had on subjects of this kind, and I heartily wish we<br />could now continue these conversations face to face. The time will not be very long now<br />before we may do it, as I expect to be in Williamsburg by the first of October if not sooner.<br />I do not know that I shall have occasion to return if I can rent rooms in town to lodge in;<br />and to prevent the inconveniency of moving my lodgings for the future, I think to<br />build. No castle though I assure you, only a small house which shall contain<br />a room for myself and another for you, and no more, unless Belinda should think pro-<br />=per to favor us with her company, in which case I will enlarge the plan as much as<br />she pleases. Make my compliments to her particularly, as also to Sukey Potter, Judy<br />Burwell and such others of my acquaitances as enquire after me. I am</p>
<br /><br /><p>Dear Page<br />Your sincere friend<br />T. Jefferson</p>
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Thomas Jefferson letter to John Page, 1763 July 15
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Ambler, Jaquelin, 1742-1798
Ambler, Rebecca Burwell, b. 1746
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence
Page, John, 1744-1808--Correspondence
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Jefferson writes to Page concerning his love for "Belinda" (Rebecca Burwell) and his rival for the affection of Miss Burwell, Jaquelin Ambler. Jefferson informs Page that he is considering building a house in Williamsburg "which shall contain a room for myself and another for you, and no more, unless Belinda should think proper to favor us with her company ..."
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
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Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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1763-07-15
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