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2879. FARMER, Jefferson as a.—[continued].

To keep a Virginia estate
together requires in the owner both skill
and attention. Skill, I never had, and attention
I could not have; and, really, when I reflect
on all circumstances, my wonder is that
I should have been so long as sixty years in reaching the result to which I am now reduced.—
To James Monroe. Ford ed., x, 383.
(M. 1826)