1Charles Pinckney to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It is a great while since I have written you for which I feel regret & some shame, as I ought to have considered it in some degree my duty to have frequently enquired how you do & to have requested the pleasure to hear from you— it was very seriously my intention at the close of the late session of Congress to have endeavoured to visit both yourself & M r Madison —but the great length of the...