Edwin Stanton

[Bill Richter]

What is the NYT? It is not read much out here in the sticks. We are a sort of ignorant folk, as you know. Using words like pluperfect and such. What do you expect? I was educated at state universities in the Deep South and the Mountain West, a damning statement I will own up to.

I did read a very disturbing article, years ago, sort of an historical fiction, in one of the gentleman's-type magazines, of Jefferson taking the virgin Sally in Paris.

So The Monster of Monticello Jefferson is not new to me. I have very mixed emotions about Jefferson, I will confess.