Writes of her losses and states, 'We both know that the best medicine is to drop the curtain on its recollection.' Regarding the troubles in New Orleans, Jefferson believes the best remedy is a strong American population. He ends by giving family news and states, 'My heart is set on nothing but the return to it [his family] myself, and getting my family around me at Monticello.' Title: Letter signed Thomas Jefferson, Washington, to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Trist, December 22, 1807 . 22 December 1807. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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