1From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 9 April 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
We feel too much interested here in the dispositions you expressed to become our neighbor, not to be attentive to any occasion which may favor it. A Mr. Lewis, my next door neighbor, having determined to remove to Kentuckey this fall offers his lands adjoining me for sale. The tract contains 700. acres, scarcely an acre of it but of first rate quality, tho’ a part of what has been cleared has...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 1 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13th. is duly recieved. I have not yet had a good opportunity of speaking with mr Gallatin on the subject of mr Fowler ; but it shall be done; and whatsoever the justice due to others may permit, will with pleasure be yielded to your wishes. I must observe at the same time that such is the effect of our conciliation plan, & so strongly has it operated on the minds of our...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, [5 October 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Can you tell me, my good friend, how I came by the enclosed letter ? it is more than I can. on my unpacking here I found it in a bundle of papers which I had carried to Monticello & had not occasion to open there. I suspect it was given me here in the moment of departure in July, & put into the bundle for safe keeping: where indeed it has been very safely kept, if not so speedily delivered as...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 20 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6th. instant has been duly recieved. I know of no inconvenience which will arise from a knowledge of our intentions to have made mr Trist the successor of mr Steele in the supposed event of his death: an event still considered as more than probable, tho from the nature of his disease he may wear for some time. I confess I would rather the appointment should not take place...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 23 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters, my dear friend, of Aug. 31. & Sep. 9. reached me on the 9th. & 31st. of October. I had already learned through other channels the melancholy event they announced. be assured I deeply felt for your situation: but on this subject I will not say one word; experience in the same school having taught me that time alone can mitigate what nothing can remedy. I hope that the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 27 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friendly letter of Mar. 1. was brought here by mr Jones. he was confined many days by sickness. he called on me after he got out, but it being in the last days of Congress when every moment of my time is occupied I had not an opportunity of seeing him a second time. I have seen nobody whose appearance indicates so desperate a state of health. my daughter & her family are here with me and...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth House Trist, 22 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved safely the letter you put under cover to Capt Brent and altho’ pleased to learn you were in good health, yet it was much allayed by the information of the losses you have sustained among your connections. but this class of misfortunes is new to neither of us, & we both know that the best medecine is to drop the curtain on it’s recollection. I do not wonder much at the agitations of...
8Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great thankfulness your kind congratulations on my liberation from the duties & anxieties of my late situation. five & twenty years of affectionate acquaintance (perhaps it is uncivil to recall such a period to a single lady) leave me without a doubt of their sincerity. of the ground of congratulation nobody can be a more feeling judge than myself. I my present freedom of...
9Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 28 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Sincerely sympathising, my dear Madam, with yourself & friends on the apostacy of William Brown from every thing which had been believed of him. I have been for some time intending to express my condolance, but really was at a loss how much to believe of what the newspapers have said. your letter, just recieved , gives us the first details on which we can rely. it is certainly the most...
10Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 10 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of a date which I cannot quote, because I have it not here, & I avail myself of this half way house to acknolege it. we were all happy to learn that you were well. in good spirits we always presume you are. with the benefit of the pleasing society of the family in which you are, we know that as to that of the neighborhood, you can always accomodate yourself to...