Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

I have done all in my power to make Gilmer’s stay here pleasant—but you well know how impossible it is for a man to see any thing properly in a day or even a week where there are so many things to call his attention at the same moment.

He was accompanied by a Mr Wellford, of Fredericksburg, who dined with him at my father’s, and who is a friend of Col Storrow, of Fauqier , now here.—Having not time to write more at length, I close with the assurance of my full sympathy with you in poor Tyrrell’s death and—add that we hear of Col. R’s intention of immediately coming to Boston.