To "my dear daughter."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see main record for MA 1029 for details.
Reporting on his time in Warm Springs; saying he continues "to bathe 3 times a day, a quarter of an hour at a time; hoping he will not need to return but saying "I believe I shall yield to the general advice of a three weeks course, but so dull a place, and so distressing an ennui I never before knew. I have visited the rock on the high mountain, the hotsprings, and yesterday the falling spring, 15. miles from here; so that there remains no other excursion to enliven the two remaining weeks;" enumerating the other guests who have arrived and saying that General Breckenridge has left "who has been my guide and guardian & fellow lodger in the same cabin. we were constantly together and I feel his loss most sensibly;" adding he has "contracted more intimacy with Col. Allstone than with any other now remaining. he is father of the Mr. Allstone who married Burr's daughter;" adding "the whole of the line of springs seems deserted now for the White Sulphur, where they have 150. persons and all latter-comers are obliged to go into the neighborhood for lodging. I believe in fact that the spring with the Hot & Warm are those of the first merit. the sweet springs retain esteem, but in limited cases."