Good Day. Jefferson, our podcast listeners and thank you for supporting the show and thank you for listening.

This week we return to The Jefferson 101 series.

Little did we know when we started this about, two years ago that we thought we'd do eight or

nine programs on Jefferson's biography and that would be that.

I think we're up to 17 or 18 programs here.

But but but but we are keeping our word and ending this this first the Jefferson

101 and in a show I kind of said maybe we ought to do a Jefferson 102 and zoom in

on some of these things but we are ending it in 2017 as

promised well we'll see we in this program we take him up to about 1816

there's still a lot of life left in Jefferson in the last nine years and of course we haven't built the University of Virginia. We have not talked about the

renewed friendship between Jefferson and John Adams, or the

very difficult family problems that beset Jefferson in his last years, not including almost hopeless indebtedness.

But we have one or two programs left to go in the series.

But I really have to say, I liked the way you approach this, David,

because what you're talking about is the graciousness

of Jefferson's world, how no matter how poor he was or how difficult circumstances

around him were, he was this serene, generous, gracious man and attractive

to almost everybody because he was just such an unusual sort of human being.

You know, I have to thank you for as usual.

You're just such a great mentor on Jefferson for me and you continually come up.

Well, you should look at this book or have you checked this book?

You know, there's a lot coming out on Jefferson right now.

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