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8744. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Jefferson's last service.—[further continued] .

I am closing the last
scenes of my life by fashioning and fostering
an establishment for the instruction of those
who are to come after us. I hope its influence
on their virtue, freedom, fame, and happiness
will be salutary and permanent.—
To A. B. Woodward. Washington ed. vii, 406. Ford ed., x, 342.
(M. 1825)