1From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Carter Waller, 27 July 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my return to Virginia, it has not till lately been in my power to take a journey to that part of the country where Mr. Eppes resides, who has had the sole transaction of the business of Mr. Wayles’s estate. I communicated to him the object of your letter on the subject of Mr. Welsh’s account, and the purport of the answer I had written to you. The affairs of the estate being now too near...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Carter Waller, 9 October 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Aug. 2. and proposed to have had the pleasure of meeting you in Richmond on the 20th. inst. according to your appointment. But about the beginning of September, I was attacked by a violent rheumatism, which after keeping me so long in constant agony, leaves me no prospect of release from my confinement within any given term of time. And were it now to leave...