Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia

Sanctum sanctorum (Quotation)

Quote about Jefferson's private suite at Monticello by his friend Margaret Bayard Smith.

"When we descended to the hall, he asked us to pass into the Library, or as I called it his sanctum sanctorum, where any other feet than his own seldom intrude."
- Margaret Bayard Smith, 18091

Footnotes

  1. Smith, First Forty Years, 71.