21Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
An antiently dislocated, and now stiffening wrist makes writing an operation so slow and painful to me that I should not so soon have troubled you with an acknolegement of your favor of the 8 th but for the request it contained of my consent to the publication of my letter of June 26 . No, my dear Sir, not for the world. into what a nest of hornets would it thrust my head! the genus irritabile...