310 History class

Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, March 5, 1813

“Of Sally we can make nothing at all. I never saw so hopeless a subject. She seems neither to have the inclination nor the understanding to learn. She is now weaving one yard a day with the flying shuttle and of such stuff as will not be worth giving to children. I have given her notice that she shall have some days trial more and if there be no improvement she must cease to spoil more cloth and go out to work with the overseer.”

Citation: Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah A. Goodman, March 5. -03-05, 1813. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib021343/.

Referenced in Wiencek, Master of Mountain, p. 102 (endnote 2 – p. 286).