John Day Letter

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    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 6:8.

    In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them.
    Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 7:14.

    I have been thinking this half hour how to begin my letter and cannot for my soul make it out. I wish to the Lord one could write a letter without any beginning for I am sure it allways puzzles me more than all the rest of it.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)