1Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 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 dyssentery, from the effects of...