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Enjoying PhD research at Edinburgh University on Thomas Jefferson and England. Jefferson/Hemings Play, Stone carving and Tristram Shandy also.

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@MJSteilen Go Matt go!

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@Monticello360 A bitter sweet gift perhaps. When Jefferson arrived in Paris he joined the prestigious Salons des Échecs but was beaten very quickly in his first game and never played there again, according to his granddaughter.

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@tomcutterham Or a series of Traitors…

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Reading a fine essay by Peter Onuf on American exceptionalism which will shape and support my thesis argument about Jefferson’s relationship with England. Always good to find nuggets amidst the digging. Nice.

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@Monticello360 Largely by English manufacturers like Dollands who operated as an opticians up to 2011. Nice.

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@MJSteilen A white whale scale haul I’d say.

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@Gmackematix Well, well, well. What is going on here? 🤔

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Worried that the British rider in the final of the Olympic showjumping is on a horse called Jefferson. Seems a recipe for disaster to me. 😕

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@LucyRigby Good to see the UVa cap. Jefferson would be proud. Go Cavaliers!

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Clear round and gold medal. Thank you Jefferson. Your former nation is grateful. 🇬🇧🥇

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@CapitolHistory @Boston1775 Glad to see this Liverpool made English creamware jug for the 1790 US census celebration. Hard to unbecome British in the realm of mass produced ceramics and other crafts. 🤔🇬🇧🇺🇸

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@artist_reynolds A tremendous portrait of an amazing character. Notable of course for her relationship with Banastre Tarleton, the hound who nearly caught Jefferson at Monticello in 1781. Nice.

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At the Dulwich Picture Gallery and thinking of @ICJSMonticello alum Xavier Salomon and TJ in front of Reynolds’ Mrs Siddons who Jefferson saw on stage whilst in London 1786. Nice.

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Good to see that Disraeli shared Jefferson’s taste in Scottish myth poetry. A copy every Anglicised gentleman should have in his library.

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Slightly disappointing Olympic opening ceremony to be honest. Couldn’t spot the Hotel des Salm or the Jefferson statue by the Seine in the coverage. Missed opportunity I’d say. Otherwise, bien faire Paris! 🤔

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Good to see Jefferson had the French Olympic mascot Phrygian cap of liberty in the top right corner of his 1786 portrait. 🤔

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@MJSteilen Light reading as usual Matt.

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@FrankCogliano Nice. All roads lead to Jefferson, even from Finland. 🇫🇮

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@FrankCogliano Seems odd but the description sounds exactly like a certain Edinburgh professor I know. Oh dear TJF. 🤔

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@FrankCogliano What is the book? Jeffersonish perhaps?