#1515 Ten Things About Jefferson's Daughters with Lindsay Chervinsky
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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky and Clay Jenkinson discuss Jefferson's daughters. Thomas Jefferson was highly expectant of their behavior and let them know it through a series of letters. When he died in bankruptcy, his daughter Martha was left nearly penniless and had to deal with the aftermath of Jefferson's poor money management.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners. |
| 0:03.4 | As always, thank you so much for listening, |
| 0:05.5 | and thank you so much for supporting the show. |
| 0:08.4 | We appreciate it. |
| 0:09.7 | You can do so by going to JeffersonOur.com, |
| 0:13.6 | click on Donate, and while you're there, |
| 0:16.8 | you can find out about all of Clay's cultural tours |
| 0:20.8 | and retreats. |
| 0:21.7 | And we're recording this in mid-late September, |
| 0:26.7 | and when it airs, you sir, will either be in France |
| 0:30.7 | or on your way home. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes, I'm taking a group to Jefferson's France, |
| 0:35.5 | beginning in the last days of September 2022. |
| 0:38.4 | So it'll be my fourth time doing this. |
| 0:41.2 | And we'll go to Paris for a few days. |
| 0:43.3 | There are lots of Jefferson sites in and around Paris, |
| 0:47.5 | and then we'll go to the south on one of the great bullet |
| 0:50.5 | trains of Europe to see the classical ruins |
| 0:53.6 | at Neem, where the Maison Carre was that served as the model |
| 0:58.5 | for the capital of Richmond, and to Arles, and Orange, |
| 1:02.8 | and Exant Provence, and Marseille. |
| 1:07.0 | That classical world made Jefferson salivate, |
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