Jefferson's Letter
Writing about the news because I'm not ready to talk about anything else. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/04/jefferson.letter/index.htmlA grad student finding a letter of recommendation from Jefferson is not so interesting in itself, despite the library official's attempts to make it sound like a testament to Jefferson's humility which belied an unfamiliarity with the tone of such letters surprising from a university official. The interesting line in the article was this one..."Historians had been aware of the existence of the letter, thanks to Jefferson's use of a portable copying press, one of his many inventions."It is of course unclear what they mean - I assume there a copy of this letter already in the possession of the authorities, and this is the original? But I was curious about the invention - it turns out that they're talking about the polygraph machine:http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/2001/2/2001_2_52.shtmlCool, huh?
