Extract from A Tour Through Part of Virginia in the Summer of 1808, by John Edwards Caldwell, 1809 [Quote]
Mr. Jefferson is very regular and temperate in his mode of living; he retires to his chamber about nine o’clock, and rises before the sun, both in summer and winter ... Until breakfast (which is early) he is employed in writing, after that he generally visits his work-shops, labourers, &c....