What is known, is that at the time Hemmings was in Paris with Jefferson she was an awkward and quite unsophisticated young teenager. While later accounts of her describer her as very pretty, the best contemporary description, that of Abigail Adams, does not. At best, she was a girl with potential. Jefferson was known to enjoy the company of intelligent, sophisticated, pretty women (one things of Abigail Adams - not a lover, but a friend). There is no evidence that he had what we have come to call a 'Pygmalion' complex, a desire to take poor, but pretty women and elevate and educate them. What I was suggesting the evidence shows is that Jefferson had his pick of women whom he would find a far more attractive overall package than Hemmings.