I can't recall anything at this moment about Jefferson, but Mark Twain says much about Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Go to Barbara Schmidt's WWW. Twainquotes.com for both, but also check Twain's essay, "The Late Benjamin Franklin," and his "A New Biography of Washington," "General Washington's Negro body-Servant," "A Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington," and "A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood." He seems to be especially irked by Washington's truth-telling and the influence of Franklin on later generations and Franklin's entering Philadelphia with three loaves of bread (he says that he could have done that). John H. Davis, Ph.D. Chowan College Murfreesboro, NC