1To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Eppes, 23 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
It was with infinite pain my D r Grandfather, that I saw your application to the legislature; the first information which reached me, of the immediate pressure of your difficulties: and I write as well to express, my unfeigned grief, as to assure you, that I return to your funds with the utmost good will, the portion of property which you designed for me:—and which I should always have...
2To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 23 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentiond in a letter which I lately wrote to you, that I had seen in a paper from Richmond, a notice of an application which you had made to the legislature, for permission to sell a large portion of your estate, by lottery, for the payment of your debts, and that I should write you again on the subject. Since then I have been much indisposed, with the influenza, from which, I have not yet...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Rice W. Wood, 23 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter upon the subject of an application to the Virginia Legislature, was handed to me by your Grand-son. I assure you that I felt gratified that you thought proper to make known to me your wishes upon that subject. and I immediately put my shoulder to the wheel to get the matter in progress. I found much aid in the suggestions you had put upon paper, upon the subject of Lotteries, in...