21To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 15 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Always feeling with gratitude the recollection of your kindness to me personally, and reluctant that separation shou’d sever all association between us I am constrained occasionally to remind you of my continued existence and affection—and although I am sensible that the oppression of your numerous correspondents makes the sight of a letter in general operate like a torpedo on the hydrophobia...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 27 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In august ult. I wrote you a long letter from Lexington Kentucky informing of the complete triumph of the people there, over the partizens of an irresponsible Judiciary—Great exertions were making among the federalists and their connivants , to carry an electoral ticket for Jackson in opposition to the Clay ticket. It was not difficult, however, to discover, that Adams wou’d be prefered. I do...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 12 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I received duly your kind letter of Oct r Ult: in answer to some I had written before. We hear much of late of “pious privileges”—“previous privileges” and all other sorts of privileges—but without any cant or affectation, it is to me a truly grateful privilege, my Dear & respected Sir, to be permitted to write to you when I can, with the reasonable expectation that my letters are rec d with...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 11 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have considered attentively, My Dear Sir, the hystory of your sufferings consequent upon your present indisposition, and deem it most advisable to make you a written memorandum of my views in relation to its nature and treatment—Dysuria, which is the proper denomination of your case, may proceed from various diseased states of any part of the urinary canal or cist—much obscurity hangs over...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 11 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
If necessary & not otherwise M r Jefferson will aid the action of his bowels with injections for a few days—and if any thing like congestion is felt in the stomach or bowels—a thorough operation should be produced by rhubarb & prepared chalk or magnesium a tolerable active dose—to be proportioned according to his known habit—It will be best to avoid acids—as they will keep up longer than...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 14 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am under a thousand obligations to you, my Dear Sir, for the considerate aid of Wormley—since I got so much hurt by a fall from my gigg two summers ago I am timid with an untried horse—my present one started with considerable restiveness, insomuch that we cou’d not clear the Green mountain untill to day—and I have been compelled reluctantly to detain wormly from his post all night—my horse...