1Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 10 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last mail brought me your favor of Dec. 26. the lapse of 28. years which you count since our first intimacies, has diminished in nothing my affection to for you. we learn, as we grow old, to value early friendships, because the new-made do not fit us so closely. it is an age since I have heard of mrs Church . yet her place, in my bosom, is as warm as ever; and so is Kitty ’s . I think I...