1Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 6 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that the 4. cases of wine shipped for me from Alexandria are arrived with you, and the state of our river rendering it improbable that it can be brought up than that under a month or six weeks, I send the bearer with a small cart, and pray you to deliver to him two cases. the other two may wait for either Johnson or Gilmore . if you can procure for me & send by him also a cheese...
2Thomas Jefferson to Margaret Bayard Smith, 6 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
D I have recieved, dear Madam, your very friendly letter of July 21. and Assure you that I feel with deep sensibility it’s kind expressions towards myself, and the more as from a person than whom no other’s could be more in sympathy with my own affections. I often call to mind the occasions of knowing your worth, which the societies of Washington furnished; and none more than those derived...