debilitude

I received both your letters and regreat much that an acknowledgment had not been made before this time, but I am sure you will forgive me when I tell you that I have been confind upward of sixteen mounth by an accident in one of my feet that hais caused great debilitude and low steate of health -- about ten days ago Dr Physick extracted a bone from my foot supposed to be the last of the falty, since I feel much better and have been able to make further enquirey as to the present prices of carpentrey.

45 Letters to and from Jefferson, 1818-1819 1818