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It is difficult to refrain from mention of the leave-taking of Miss Virginia Carvel from the Monticello "Female Seminary," so called in the 'Democrat'. Most young ladies did not graduate in those days. There were exercises.
He had been on excellent terms with Madison and had enjoyed Jefferson's friendship and hospitality at Monticello; but he was the accredited representative of His Catholic Majesty and bound to defend his sovereignty. He fairly overwhelmed the timid Madison with reproaches that could never be forgiven or forgotten; and from this moment he was persona non grata in the Department of State.
Some of the blue jackets who were talking to us looked at him and the vessel with the greatest expression of interest, and said: "Hello! there's the 'Monticello' and Lieutenant Cushing." This, then, was the naval boy hero, with whose exploits the whole country was ringing. Our sailor friends proceeded to tell us of his achievements, of which they were justly proud.
Jefferson's estate of Monticello, and after he retired from public life he found his greatest pleasure in the society of the numerous family which surrounded him, a pleasure which increased with his years. Mr. Randall publishes a few letters from some of Jefferson's grand-daughters, describing their happy child-life at Monticello.
Toward the end of that week, Miss Virginia Carvel was sitting with her back to one of the great trees at Monticello reading a letter. Every once in a while she tucked it under her cloak and glanced hastily around. It was from Miss Anne Brinsmade. "I have told you all about the excursion, my dear, and how we missed you. Stephen Brice, whom we used to speak of.
In this opposition to his chief and able colleague, and feeling strongly on the matters which constantly brought him into collision with the centralizing designs of the President and the preponderating influence in the Cabinet hostile to his views, Jefferson resigned his post in December, 1793, and retired for a time to his estate at Monticello.
Welcome to Monticello!" and then turning to the youth and laying a hand affectionately on his shoulder, he cried, gayly: "My dear Ned, when did you come and why have I not seen you before?"
A score of miles beyond that precipice was a long low building of stone, surrounded by spreading trees, the school for young ladies, celebrated throughout the West, where our mothers and grandmothers were taught, Monticello. Hither Miss Virginia Carvel had gone, some thirty days since, for her second winter. Perhaps Stephen guessed the thought in the mind of his companion, for he stared also.
"No occupation is so delightful to me," he confessed, "as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden." At Monticello, too, he could gratify his delight in the natural sciences, for he was a true child of the eighteenth century in his insatiable curiosity about the physical universe and in his desire to reduce that universe to an intelligible mechanism.
It would have given him the greatest pleasure to convey these in person, and, indeed, I think he would have been tempted to make the journey to Monticello himself to see you had he not expected a visit from Mr. Gouverneur Morris, who, I doubt not, is at Mount Vernon by this time." "Mr. Morris!" exclaimed Mr. Jefferson. "And what has brought Mr. Morris to Virginia?"
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