1Thomas Ewell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The continuation Good sir, of your kindness—shewn by your last letter —does truly render my feelings unspeakable. Great indeed has been the service you have often rendered me: more than all the world together; more than you can have been aware of. When in trouble I apply to you: my troubles have been the signal of abandonment, by the mass of others: and still more galling—the time for their...
2Charles 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...
3Joel Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been anxiously expecting you at the P. Forest for some time past, or should have written you sooner, Since M r Randolph was here it has been reported that he had taken the management of your Estate here for the ensuing year, and that he intended to send up Overseers, indeed he mentioned to me himself when he was here last, that something of the kind was talked of between you and...