I pray you to accept the assurances of my esteem and respect.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CXXIII.--TO CAESAR A. RODNEY, March 16, 1815
TO CAESAR A. RODNEY.
Monticello, March 16, 1815.
My Dear Friend and Ancient Colleague,
Your letter of February the 19th has been received with very sincere
pleasure. It recalls to memory the sociability, the friendship, and the
harmony of action which united personal happiness with public duties,
during the portion of our lives in which we acted together. Indeed,
the affectionate harmony of our cabinet is among the sweetest of my
recollections. I have just received a letter of friendship from General
Dearborn. He writes me that he is now retiring from every species of
public occupation, to pass the remainder of life as a private citizen;
and he promises me a visit in the course of the summer. As you hold out
a hope of the same gratification, if chance or purpose could time your
visits together, it would make a real jubilee. But come as you will, or
as you can, it will always be joy enough to me. Only you must give me a
month's notice; because I go three or four times a year to a possession
ninety miles southwestward, and am absent a month at a time, and the
mortification would be indelible of losing such a visit by a mistimed
absence. You will find me in habitual good health, great contentedness,
enfeebled in body, impaired in memory, but without decay in my
friendships.
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