1To 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...