Billet d’Amour

Book Description

Tapped by the founders of the Untied States to write the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was infinitely better on paper than as a public speaker. Although never satiated with what one might say, or could say, he came closest when his pen touched vellum, and it was here, finally, in a fully untrammeled love letter that he was able to say what had been forever locked up in his heart to his lover-slave and best friend, Sally Hemings, who he admonished to burn the letter as Society must never know the unwieldy truth.