CHAPTER I My father was Archibald Cary, of Carysbrooke -all old-time Virginians loved to write themselves down as part of their parental estatesson of vVilson Jefferson Cary, a nephew of Thomas Jefferson, whose marriage with Miss Virginia Randolph had taken place at Monticello; upon which occasion the bride was given away by the master of the house, who hung around her neck a little pearl necklace sent for by him to Paris, and still treasured by her descendants. There remains also a copy of "Don Quixote" in French, lovingly inscribed by lVlr. Jefferson to my grandmother. J efferson's mother, it will be recalled, was Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph; and when, in I790' 11artha Jefferson married Thomas Mann Randolph, she and her husband claimed a great-great-grandfather in common. Young Randolph having lived with the J effersons for two years in Paris, completing his education under Mr. JefFerson's direction at the University of Edinburgh, About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a...

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