1Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 26 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your acceptable letters of Mar. & Apr. 20. and of May 15. of the present year, have not been sooner answered, nor the brochures you so kindly sent me, acknoleged because the state of my health has in a great degree interdicted to me the labors of the writing table. add to this a stiffening wrist, the effect of age on an antient dislocation, which is likely to deprive me entirely of the use of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 30 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letters dear Sir, at different times with pamphlets and other favors without specific acknolegements. not that I have not been duly sensible and thankful for these kind attentions, but that I am become all but unable to write. besides the weight of 80. years pressing heavily on me, a wrist & fingers which have nearly lost their joints render writing so slow & painful that...
3From Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 31 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
If these things depended on ourselves, I should have great need of apology for being so late in acknoleging your letters of May. 13. & Aug. 15. and many indeed preceding them, as well as brochures, books E t c. but much sickness, age itself, and the debility consequent on it have withdrawn me from nearly all correspondence; and two dislocated wrists and crippled fingers render writing so slow...
4Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 24 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Age and declining health have very much disabled me from the duties of correspondence, or your several kind favors should not have been unacknoleged. I am just now recovering from an illness of 3. months, and have hardly yet taken my place at the writing table. so uneasy indeed have the labors of that become from these causes that I have been obliged to retire from all general correspondence....
5Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 6 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your several favors of July 12. 14. & Aug. 9. with the invoices of the books, in the purchase and dispatch of which you were so kind as to take a part, and the books themselves have been all safely recieved. I am under great obligations to you for your aid in this supply to the amusements of my old age; and for the satisfactory manner in which the Mess rs Debures freres have executed my...