Includes a facsim. and transcription of Jefferson's letter now in the University of Virginia Library, Special Collections Dept. (Accession #38-755). Transcription prepared by David L. Vander Meulen.
"This keepsake was distributed at the fifty-third annual dinner of The Johnsonians, commemorating Samuel Johnson's 290th birthday, held in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on 25 September 1999 ... four-hundred fifty copies were printed ..."--Colophon.