1Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ann C. Morris, 27 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I received Your last some weeks before I left Monticello , but I believe you are so much accustomed to my bad ways that you do no t require a fresh apology for every letter—I have in vain tried to be punctual, but bad habits are not so easily conquered, particularly when the causes which first gave rise to them still exist, and strange to say we are as much interrupted by company here as at...