Have arrived at my new home for the next few weeks. It is the Garage Apartment of Kenwood Farm - used for Roosevelt's driver when he came to stay at Kenwood House which it is right next to. Still pouring with rain - but here it is in all its glory on their website. The other cottage is no longer available to fellows. Has a slight feeling of the coachman's house I used to live in at the end of Kensington Palace Gardens, so a home from home.
Arrived dad-early for 10am meeting, so nipped into the visitor centre for Monticello. Obviously loads of books on Jefferson so flicked through the indexes of a few of them. Rudely, the only ones to mention Alexander are the ones to do with wine - Alexander and Jefferson exchanged lots of letters about wine. One of my favourite quotes is from Alexander to Jefferson when he was in Paris:
"If you can procure for me one groce of the best Claret in France, in time to send by return of my ship Bowman, I will be very thankful to you for it. I want it of the first grade and high flavour. I don’t limit you to any price. "
I always thought that was very Withnail and I.
"We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now."
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