1From Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, 20 November 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect you will have thought me inattentive to my promise of sending you the information you wished as to the state of New Hampshire; but the delay has not proceeded from that source. The first part of my time after my arrival here was necessarily occupied by the public business on which I came, and before this was got into a train I relapsed into that state of ill health in which you saw me...