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He believed that water should accompany food, and his good wines were not brought out until nearly dessert. He loved simple Virginia products as well as imported food. He visited with his guests until nightfall, when tea and fruit were brought.
This was a signal to take up a book and read. The children did so, and all the guests as well.
A society woman visiting over the Christmas holidays had thought that Monticello would be a whirl of parties and entertainments of various sorts, but she observed that just the reverse was true. She confided to a friend in a letter that you could spend the whole holiday season at Monticello and see the former president only at supper. Not being much of a reader, the somewhat bored socialite spent her evenings trying to get up a game of chess in the library.
So many visitors came to Jefferson’s estate, and he was so unwilling to turn them away or suggest that they feed themselves and their stock elsewhere, that he died in complete financial ruin.
The famous revolutionary was extremely handsome (according to the lady), most interesting and always in a good humor, although he insisted on accomplishing his daily work and reading. He never remarried after the death of his wife because of a promise he made her as she died.
Mrs. Jefferson was not jealous <of his affection for a second wife; rather she was worried about the treatment of her children by a stepmother.
By all accounts Mr. Jefferson did very well entertaining on his own, although he sometimes called on his Mend, Dolley Madison, for help.
Every year Monticello holds candlelight open house December evenings, with decorations similar to ones Jefferson might have used.
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