11Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 21 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you this day week and this day fortnight . we have been here in a continued state of fluctuation between the numbers of 40. & 60. a greater proportion of ladies than formerly: but all invalids, and perfectly recluse in their cabins. mr Glendy joined us to-day and will stay till Sunday. we had been many days without venison till the day before yesterday, in the course of which 8....
12Benjamin Vaughan to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 23 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume to send you the inclosed, the writer of which seems to wish to put the religious party on his side.— A new attack has been made on vaccination by a certain D r Brown in Scotland ; but the sum total of it is, want of candor in argument, & the use of spurious kine pox in practice. D r Jenner , D r
13Extracts from Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Grand papa and myself are in the habit of sitting, some time after dinner, in conversation, upon different subjects, and it was but the other day, that, speaking of education, & the influence exerted by mothers over their children, he paid to his grandchildren the compliment of all others the most valuable, that of alluding indirectly to what he considers their excellences, and ascribing them...
14Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 28 July [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I have just learned from the Enquirer the death of my old & valuable friend Cathalan of Marseilles , an important loss to me, & at this time particularly requiring attention, as my orders are now on the way to him for the supplies of the year, & the money to pay for them. but I can do nothing without his papers which I request you to send me. in my Cabinet, & in the window on the right of my...
15Extracts from Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In spite of the desperate condition of Col. N ’s affairs , I cannot help hoping that my dear Grand-father will escape, or at least that he will receive some indemnification. the 20,000 $ as you observe would still leave a large estate behind, if it was simply a loss of 20,000$, but in times like these, to raise such a sum, you must sell property perhaps to the value of 100,000 or even more....
16Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
It is our purpose to set out from this place for Monticello on Monday the 13 th or perhaps on Sunday the 12 th of next month. As Henry , his mule and little cart will be necessary to carry our baggage, I would wish him to leave Monticello on Sunday morning the 5 th making stages at Tooler ’s on this side the river at
17Extract from Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 13 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
We have reached our journey’s end my dear Mother, in safety, not without some disagreable adventures, such as being confined one whole day by the rain— at Flood’s tavern . we left Uncle Eppes ’s before sun-rise monday —the morning was lowering, and it was dropping rain before we set out, but you know Grand-papa —he was morally certain we should have “a cool agreable cloudy day for our journey,...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 2 July 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
A death-bed Adieu. Life’s visions are vanished, it’s dreams are no more. Dear friends of my bosom, why bathed in tears? I go to my fathers; I welcome the shore, which crowns all my hopes, or which buries my cares. Then farewell my dear, my lov’d daughter, Adieu! The last pang of life is in parting from you! Two Seraphs await me, long shrouded in death: I will bear them your love on my last...