1Thomas Jefferson to Mitchie B. Pryor Jefferson, 2 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of yesterday gave us the first information of my brother’s illness. we learn it with great concern mrs Marks would have visited him , but that we have now in our family, both in doors, and out, more sickness than I have ever had since I was a house keeper. Cornelia , Virginia and both of mrs Bankhead’s children . all of