1To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I should not have waited for your letter my Dearest Father had it been in my power to have written sooner but incredible as it may appear, that in period of 2 months not one day could have been found to discharge so sacred and pleasing a duty, it is litterally true that the first fort night of your absence excepted and 3 or 4 days of the last week, I have not been one day capable of attending...