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	*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (19th Century)]]		*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (19th Century)]]
	*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (20th Century)]]		*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (20th Century)]]
-	*[[Physical Descriptions of Jefferson]]
	*[[Quotations on Jefferson in Conversation]]		*[[Quotations on Jefferson in Conversation]]

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	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==
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		+	==See Also==
		+	*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (Contemporary)]]
		+	*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (19th Century)]]
		+	*[[Notable Comments on Jefferson (20th Century)]]
		+	*[[Physical Descriptions of Jefferson]]
		+	*[[Quotations on Jefferson in Conversation]]

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	'''1823.''' (Alexander H. H. Stuart) "...raw boned man, with rather large hands..."		'''1823.''' (Alexander H. H. Stuart) "...raw boned man, with rather large hands..."

-	'''1824.''' <p>(Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>	+	'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color. His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit."<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref></p>
-	<p>"His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit."</p><ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref></p>	+

	'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."		'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."

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	'''1823.''' (Alexander H. H. Stuart) "...raw boned man, with rather large hands..."		'''1823.''' (Alexander H. H. Stuart) "...raw boned man, with rather large hands..."

-	'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>	+	'''1824.''' <p>(Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>
-	<p>"His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit."<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref></p>	+	<p>"His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit."</p><ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref></p>

	'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."		'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."

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	'''1816.''' (Francis Hall) "I found Mr. Jefferson tall in person, but stooping and lean with old age, thus exhibiting the fortunate mode of bodily decay, which strips the frame of its most cumbersome parts, leaving it still strength of muscle and activity of limb."		'''1816.''' (Francis Hall) "I found Mr. Jefferson tall in person, but stooping and lean with old age, thus exhibiting the fortunate mode of bodily decay, which strips the frame of its most cumbersome parts, leaving it still strength of muscle and activity of limb."

-	'''1816.''' (From Flower's accounts). "I found Mr. Jefferson at his [[Poplar Forest\|Poplar-Forest]] estate, in the western part of the State of Virginia. His house was built after the fashion of a French chateau. Octagon rooms, floors, floors of polished oak, lofty ceilings, large mirrors, betokened his French taste, acquired by his long residence in France. Mr. Jefferson's figure was rather majestic: tall (over six feet), thin, and rather high-shouldered; manners, simple, kind, and courteous. His dress, in color and form. was quaint and old-fashioned, plain and neat-dark pepper-and-salt coat, cut in the old quaker fashion, with a single row of large metal buttons, knee-breeches, gray-worsted stockings, shoes fastened by large metal buckles-such was the appearance of Jefferson when I fist made his acquaintance, in 1816. His two grand-daughters-Misses Randolph- well-educated and accomplished young ladies, were staying with him at the time."<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1685576 ''History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois : founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower''] (Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1882), 43.</ref>	+	'''1816.''' (George Flower). "I found Mr. Jefferson at his [[Poplar Forest\|Poplar-Forest]] estate, in the western part of the State of Virginia. His house was built after the fashion of a French chateau. Octagon rooms, floors, floors of polished oak, lofty ceilings, large mirrors, betokened his French taste, acquired by his long residence in France. Mr. Jefferson's figure was rather majestic: tall (over six feet), thin, and rather high-shouldered; manners, simple, kind, and courteous. His dress, in color and form. was quaint and old-fashioned, plain and neat-dark pepper-and-salt coat, cut in the old quaker fashion, with a single row of large metal buttons, knee-breeches, gray-worsted stockings, shoes fastened by large metal buckles-such was the appearance of Jefferson when I fist made his acquaintance, in 1816. His two grand-daughters-Misses Randolph- well-educated and accomplished young ladies, were staying with him at the time."<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1685576 ''History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois : founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower''] (Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1882), 43.</ref>

	'''1820.''' (Isaac Briggs) "His 77th year finds him strong, active and in full possession of a sound mind. He rides a trotting horse and sits on him straight as a young man."		'''1820.''' (Isaac Briggs) "His 77th year finds him strong, active and in full possession of a sound mind. He rides a trotting horse and sits on him straight as a young man."

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	'''1816.''' (Francis Hall) "I found Mr. Jefferson tall in person, but stooping and lean with old age, thus exhibiting the fortunate mode of bodily decay, which strips the frame of its most cumbersome parts, leaving it still strength of muscle and activity of limb."		'''1816.''' (Francis Hall) "I found Mr. Jefferson tall in person, but stooping and lean with old age, thus exhibiting the fortunate mode of bodily decay, which strips the frame of its most cumbersome parts, leaving it still strength of muscle and activity of limb."
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		+	'''1816.''' (From Flower's accounts). "I found Mr. Jefferson at his [[Poplar Forest\|Poplar-Forest]] estate, in the western part of the State of Virginia. His house was built after the fashion of a French chateau. Octagon rooms, floors, floors of polished oak, lofty ceilings, large mirrors, betokened his French taste, acquired by his long residence in France. Mr. Jefferson's figure was rather majestic: tall (over six feet), thin, and rather high-shouldered; manners, simple, kind, and courteous. His dress, in color and form. was quaint and old-fashioned, plain and neat-dark pepper-and-salt coat, cut in the old quaker fashion, with a single row of large metal buttons, knee-breeches, gray-worsted stockings, shoes fastened by large metal buckles-such was the appearance of Jefferson when I fist made his acquaintance, in 1816. His two grand-daughters-Misses Randolph- well-educated and accomplished young ladies, were staying with him at the time."<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1685576 ''History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois : founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower''] (Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1882), 43.</ref>

	'''1820.''' (Isaac Briggs) "His 77th year finds him strong, active and in full possession of a sound mind. He rides a trotting horse and sits on him straight as a young man."		'''1820.''' (Isaac Briggs) "His 77th year finds him strong, active and in full possession of a sound mind. He rides a trotting horse and sits on him straight as a young man."

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	'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>		'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>
-	<p>His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref></p>	+	<p>"His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit."<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref></p>

	'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."		'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."

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	'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>		'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>
-	<p>His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref>	+	<p>His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref></p>

	'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."		'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."

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	[[Image:jeff1.jpg\|right\|frame\|Peale portrait of Jefferson]]		[[Image:jeff1.jpg\|right\|frame\|Peale portrait of Jefferson]]
-	'''Hair:'''<ref>This article is based on Zanne Macdonald, Monticello Research Report, July 1992.</ref><br>
-	'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "[His head] is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, & now turning grey, is of an indistinct sandy color."<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref>

-	'''1781-1824 [[Isaac Jefferson]], slave at Monticello:'''<br>	+	'''1781-1824.''' ([[Isaac Jefferson]], slave at Monticello) "Mr. Jefferson was a tall, straight-bodied man as ever you see, right square-shouldered. Nary a man in this town [Petersburg] walked so straight as my Old Master. Neat a built man as ever was seen in Vaginny . . . . a straight-up man, long face, high nose.<ref>This article is based on Zanne Macdonald, Monticello Research Report, July 1992.</ref>
-	Mr. Jefferson was a tall, straight-bodied man as ever you see, right square-shouldered. Nary a man in this town (Petersburg) walked so straight as my Old Master. Neat a built man as ever was seen in Vaginny . . . . a straight-up man, long face, high nose.	+

-	'''1790 William Maclay:'''<br>	+	'''1790.''' (William Maclay) "Jefferson is a slender man; has rather the air of stiffness in his manners; his clothes seem too small for him . . . one shoulder elevated above the other (while sitting)..."
-	Jefferson is a slender man; has rather the air of stiffness in his manners; his clothes seem too small for him . . . one shoulder elevated above the other (while sitting)	+

-	'''1801-09 Samuel Harrison Smith (?):'''<br>	+	'''1801-09.''' (Samuel Harrison Smith) "The stature of Jefferson was lofty and erect; his motions flexible and easy; neither remarkable for, nor deficient in grace; and such were his strength and agility..."
-	The stature of Jefferson was lofty and erect; his motions flexible and easy; neither remarkable for, nor deficient in grace; and such were his strength and agility. . . .	+

-	'''1802 William Plumer:'''<br>	+	'''1802.''' (William Plumer) "a tall, highboned man"
-	a tall, highboned man	+

-	'''1806-22 [[Edmund Bacon]], overseer at Monticello:'''<br>	+	'''1806-22.''' ([[Edmund Bacon]], overseer at Monticello) "Mr. Jefferson was six feet two and half inches high, well proportioned and straight as a gun barrel. He was like a fine horse; he had no surplus flesh. His countenance was always mild and pleasant."
-	Mr. Jefferson was six feet two and half inches high, well proportioned and straight as a gun barrel. He was like a fine horse; he had no surplus flesh. His countenance was always mild and pleasant	+

-	'''1807 Sir Augustus John Foster:'''<br>	+	'''1807.''' (Sir Augustus John Foster) "...appearance being very much like that of a large-boned farmer was very tall and bony..."
-	appearance being very much like that of a large-boned farmer was very tall and bony	+

-	'''1808 Frances Few:'''<br>	+	'''1808.''' (Frances Few) "...he is a tall thin man very dignified in his appearance...his face is short and his nose and chin approach each other -- his teeth are good he shews but little of them when he laughs -- he stoops very much but holds his head high..."
-	he is a tall thin man very dignified in his appearance...his face is short and his nose and chin approach each other -- his teeth are good he shews but little of them when he laughs -- he stoops very much but holds his head high	+

-	'''1809-26 B. L. Rayner:'''<br>	+	'''1809-26.''' (B. L. Rayner) "...a strong and sprightly step...the tall and animated, and stately figure..."
-	a strong and sprightly step...the tall and animated, and stately figure	+

-	'''1815 Francis Calley Gray:'''<br>	+	'''1815.''' (Francis Calley Gray) "His figure bony, long and with broad shoulders, a true Virginian."
-	His figure bony, long and with broad shoulders, a true Virginian.	+

-	'''1816 Francis Hall:'''<br>	+	'''1816.''' (Francis Hall) "I found Mr. Jefferson tall in person, but stooping and lean with old age, thus exhibiting the fortunate mode of bodily decay, which strips the frame of its most cumbersome parts, leaving it still strength of muscle and activity of limb."
-	I found Mr. Jefferson tall in person, but stooping and lean with old age, thus exhibiting the fortunate mode of bodily decay, which strips the frame of its most cumbersome parts, leaving it still strength of muscle and activity of limb.	+

-	'''1820 Isaac Briggs:'''<br>	+	'''1820.''' (Isaac Briggs) "His 77th year finds him strong, active and in full possession of a sound mind. He rides a trotting horse and sits on him straight as a young man."
-	His 77th year finds him strong, active and in full possession of a sound mind. He rides a trotting horse and sits on him straight as a young man.	+

-	'''1820 Adam Hodgson:'''<br>	+	'''1820.''' (Adam Hodgson) "Mr. Jefferson's appearance is rather prepossessing. He is tall and very thin, a little bent with age..."
-	Mr. Jefferson's appearance is rather prepossessing. He is tall and very thin, a little bent with age . . .	+

	[[Image:sully_med.jpg\|right\|frame\|Sully portrait of Jefferson]]		[[Image:sully_med.jpg\|right\|frame\|Sully portrait of Jefferson]]
-	'''1822 Reverand S. A. Bumstead:'''<br>	+	'''1822.''' (Reverand S. A. Bumstead) "...his hair is quite thick...his features regular...he was remarkably erect and had every appearance of antiquity about him."
-	his hair is quite thick...his features regular...he was remarkably erect and had every appearance of antiquity about him.	+

-	'''1822 D. P. Thompson:'''<br>	+	'''1822.''' (D. P. Thompson) "Mr. Jefferson a tall, straight [man]."
-	Mr. Jefferson a tall, straight [man]	+

-	'''c. 1822 Judith Walker Rives:'''<br>	+	'''c. 1822.''' (Judith Walker Rives) "...his tall figure had lost none of its uprightness..."
-	his tall figure had lost none of its uprightness	+

-	'''1823 Alexander H. H. Stuart:'''<br>	+	'''1823.''' (Alexander H. H. Stuart) "...raw boned man, with rather large hands..."
-	raw boned man, with rather large hands	+

-	'''1824 Daniel Webster:'''<br>	+	'''1824.''' (Daniel Webster) "Mr. Jefferson is now between eighty-one and eighty-two, above six feet high, of an ample, long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protrusion of it. It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is an indistinct sandy color.</p>
-	above six feet high, of an ample long frame, rather thin and spare. His head, which is not peculiar in its shape, is set rather forward on his shoulders, and his neck being long, there is, when he is walking or conversing, an habitual protusion of it. It is still well covered with hair...his [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small...his chin is rather long, but not pointed, his nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is generally strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His limbs are uncommonly long, his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of a most extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging; he stoops a little, not so much from age, as from natural formation. When sitting he appears short partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit.	+	<p>His [[Eye Color \| eyes]] are small, very light, and now neither brilliant nor striking. His chin is rather long, but not pointed. His nose small, regular in its outline, and the nostrils a little elevated. His mouth is well formed and still filled with teeth; it is strongly compressed, bearing an expression of contentment and benevolence. His complexion, formerly light and freckled, now bears the marks of age and cutaneous affection. His limbs are uncommonly long; his hands and feet very large, and his wrists of an extraordinary size. His walk is not precise and military, but easy and swinging. He stoops a little, not so much from age as from natural formation. When sitting, he appears short, partly from a rather lounging habit of sitting, and partly from the disproportionate length of his limbs...His general appearance indicates an extraordinary degree of health, vivacity, and spirit.<ref>[[Short Title List\|Peterson, ''Visitors'']], 97.</ref>

-	'''1824 Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.:'''<br>	+	'''1824.''' (Samuel Whitcomb, Jr.) "He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin."
-	He is tall and very straight excepting his neck which appears limber and inclined to crook. His hair is long and thin.	+

-	'''Ante 1826 George Tucker:'''<br>	+	'''Ante 1826.''' (George Tucker) "In person he was above six feet high, thin and erect."
-	In person he was above six feet high, thin and erect.	+

	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==