Visitors to Monticello

Many visitors over the generations have recorded theirimpressions of Monticello and its creator. These writings, especialy those fromJefferson's lifetime, preserve important details about him and the house and groundsthat might otherwise have been lost. In Visitors to Monticello, Merrill D. Petersonprovides a collegtion of thirty-five of these writings dating from 1780 to1984.