1From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 1 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot blame you, if you have been thinking hardly of my long delay in answering your favor of the 10 th ult. but knowing the state of my health these thoughts will vanish from your mind . it is now 3. weeks since a re-ascerbation of my painful complaint has confined me to the house and indeed to my couch. required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty. yesterday for...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17 th is rec d and I cannot sffly express to you my sense of the kindness with which my friends have exerted themselves in my behalf—a majority of one only even for leave to bring in the bill, and that too in the legislature of my native state was of appalling aspect. it was a certificate of character to other states and countries which could not but be painfully felt—the...