Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

When your last letter arrived I was confined by a severe illness which has prostrated my small stock of strength and denied me the power of replying to it earlier—I have a perfect recollection of the letters from Mr Hamilton which you sent for my perusal and which were returned to you—I was much pleased with his elegant diction, and particularly gratified by his expressions of friendly solicitude for the interest of yourself and my dear Nephew. There were many allusions in them to the situation of your affairs but no legal opinion from which I could form an estimate of the progress of your business—

I wish to make a visit to my friends Mrs Patterson and Mrs Rensselaer—if my efforts be successful you will see me at Morrisania—Our Uncle Carter Page is dead—he was an honourable virtuous Man, and possessed greater equanimity of temper than any person I have ever been acquainted with—When I gain a little strength I shall write something more like a letter than this short notice