1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 5 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
My servant comes down to M r Minor’s on business relative to my farm, and I profit of the opportunity to drop you a line, and to assure you that I should have been at Monticello a month ago, but for a return of bad health. I arrived here on 2 d June: was employed four or five weeks in necessary attention to my affairs, when I had an attack of the prevailing dysentery, from the effects of which...