1To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feby. 1st. has come safe to hand, and I acknoledge myself highly gratified with the receipt, since it has enabled me to explain your vote for Johnson in a satisfactory manner to most who have heard your reasons. The news of your election to the presidential chair, has been the source of great, and general joy. The people have now the satisfaction of seing the man of their choice...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 17 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with pleasure that I resume my pen to write to you after a silence of some years . It has not been from a want of respect, or from the smallest diminution of that affectionate regard I have ever had for you that I have thus long been silent. There are but few circumstances that coud have restrained me till this period, but a conviction that nothing which I coud communicate on my part was...