Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

My dearest grand-father is just recovering from a fever which lasted three weeks without intermission, and which Dr. Watkins & my brother ascribe to his daily visits last summ fall to the Mill-dam where he was in the habit of remaining from breakfast until dinner time. but this fever was accompanied by the influenza that none of us have escaped; and violent perspirations every night render’d him too feeble to set up, or even to read without bringing on a head-ache: since these have ceased his recovery has been rapid, & will, I hope, soon be complete.