I thank you for
your kind inquiries about my wrist. I followed advice with it, till I
saw, visibly, that the joint had never been replaced, and that it was
absurd to expect that cataplasms and waters would reduce dislocated
bones. From that moment I have done nothing. I have for ever lost the
use of my hand, except that I can write: and a withered hand and swelled
and crooked fingers, still remaining twenty-seven months after the
accident, make me fear I do not yet know the worst of it. But this, too,
we will talk over at Monticello, and endeavor that it be the only pain
to which our attention may be recalled. Adieu, my dear friend. Kiss and
bless every body for me, Mrs. Gilmer especially. Assure her and
yourself of the sincere and constant attachment of, Dear Doctor, your
affectionate friend and servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CLXXVI.--TO THOMAS PAINE, December 23,1788
TO THOMAS PAINE.
Paris, December 23,1788.
Dear Sir,
It is true that I received very long ago your favors of September the
9th and 15th, and that I have been in daily intention of answering them,
fully and confidentially; but you know such a correspondence between
you and me cannot pass through the post, nor even by the couriers
of ambassadors.
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