1From James Madison to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Col: Randolph, & incloses a misdirected letter of Mr. Faulcon. The copy of proceedings referred to in the letter was not come with it. Draft ( DLC ). John Faulcon was president of the Agricultural Society of Surry County, Virginia (see PJM-RS David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va.,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time entertained the hope that your affairs being once wound up, your mind would cease to look back on them, and resume the calm so necessary to your own happiness and that of your family & friends, and especially that you would return again to their society. I hope there remains no reason now to delay this longer, and that you will rejoin our table and fireside as heretofore....
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have for some time entertained the hope that your affairs being once wound up, your mind would cease to look back on them, and resume the calm so necessary to your own happiness, and that of your family and friends; and especially that you would return again to their society. I hope there remains no reason now to delay this longer, and that you will rejoin our table and fireside as...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I was glad to recieve your letter of yesterday, altho’ I assure you it was not necessary to counteract any misrepresentations to your prejudice. having always abstained from all intermedling or enquiry into your affairs no one could have a motive for saying any thing about them to me. I thought indeed I sometimes my self observed symptoms of your being under difficulties, which I supposed had...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not long since I was apprised that the state of your affairs had become doubtful, and only very recently, that they were beyond recovery, I learnt this with the more concern, from a consciousness that no resources within my power could be applied to their redemption; and indeed that the husbanding of these was become the more necessary for the support of the family. your situation is...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with the request of Col o Bowyer, conveyed through you, to furnish a list of the books proper to prepare his son for the bar, I inclose you copies of two letters, written formerly, and on occasions which called on me for full and mature consideration of the subject. these will not only specify the books to be read, but also the reasons for their preference, and the course of...
7From James Madison to Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 April 1823 (Madison Papers)
Presuming that you will by this time have returned from your trip to the lower country, I enclose in fulfillment of my promise a copy of Mr. Adlum’s Memoir on the Vine. It is intended by him as appears for the Agricultural Socy of Alb: with which you will be so good as to have it deposited. I have thought it not amiss to give this same destination to his letter, that the members may have the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d the bottle of wine you were so kind as to send me about a fortnight ago and have kept it in the hope your father could come and dine & taste it here. he had at length promised for yesterday but his business obliging him to set out to Richm d and having some friends with me we tried it . we found it so heavily charged with brandy that all flavor of the wine was absorbed in that of the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 24 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I certainly had not the most distant thought of bearing on any controverted question, when, in my letter to mr Campbell, I used the unweighed expression of ‘papers belonging to the records of the council.’ but my meaning will be best explained by stating the practice of the time to which that letter referred. all letters and official papers on Executive business were regularly addressed to...
10Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 31. is this moment rec d and without loss of time I have filled up the dates of the bond as required, reacknoleged it before witnesses & now inclosed inclose it. I have dated it on the 6 th to remove ambiguity as to the commcemt of interest, because before you recieve it that date will have occurred. all here are well, and I am myself as ever affly yours Dft ( DLC
11Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 26. did not get to hand till yesterday. my memory is so much in default on the subject of your enquiry that I do not believe I can recollect a single fact not known to yourself or those on the spot whom you have probably consulted. the act of 1779. for the removal of the seat of government provided that 6. squares should be located by the 5. directors of the public buildings...
12Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two hours ago your favor of the 3 d and lose no time in executing the bond and lodging it in the post office. if the legislature were to cancel our debt, and give us the derelict money, the latter would build the Library, and our annuity being free we could instantly take measures for opening the University . but I am sorry to learn from mr Cabell that the opposition to the...
13Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper was handed to me by our dear Martha , with a request that I would consider it, and say to you what I think of it. General Taylor has certainly stated the objections to mr Hackley ’s claim so fairly, fully and powerfully, that I need not repeat them, observing only that in mentioning the notice which Erving had of the negociation with Alagon , he does not mention mr Hackley...
14Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you the annual report of the Visitors of the University to the Literary board with it’s documents, to be laid before the Legislature . we have had two copies prepared, one for each house, of the ground plan of the establishment. but a s these are in a box, not proper for the mail, & the girls expect to set out for Richmond on Saturday, I will send the box by them, and you will...
15Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Pendleton found me this morning at my mill as he past it, and delivered me your favor of the 31 st explaining at the same time the importance of sending a new bond by tomorrow’s mail. this with the inclosed bond will go with tomorrow’s mail. I am to call on him tomorrow morning to accompany him to the University , and he will return and dine with us, and I have no doubt that what he will...
16Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 27 th came to hand yesterday. I have ever considered the organisation of our Executive as the crudest part of our constitution, a mere mungrel kind of Directory. yet I see no hope of amending this or still worse things in it. I thank you for friend Kersey . I find Briggs ’s quakerism very different from the vulgar, and that this, as to it’s follies is much on a par with...
17Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 21 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors of the University of Virginia proposing to avail the institution of the authorisation of the act of the late General Assembly concerning the University , to borrow a further sum of 60. M .D. and preferring to obtain it from the President & Directors of the Literary fund , have directed me to make application to them accordingly. and understanding that there is at present a sum of...
18Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 June [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of Col o Taylor to Judge Roane recieved from you thro’ Martha , I now return in a letter to the judge, which I leave open for your perusal, after which be so good as to stick a wafer in it and deliver it to him. We have had a tremendous hail. it extended from about half down this mountain to Mechunk , tore corn to peices, beat off the heads of wheat & destroyed the rye. I suffered...
19Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 21 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last mail brought us your favor of the 14 th . the case of mr Johnson is thus. his last attendance was on the 4 th of Oct. 1819. at the meeting of Apr. 1820. he was prevented by the precedin g day being one of very close snow. at our meeting of Oct. 1820. he was confined in Amherst by a dangerous illness. this was known to the board and became a matter of consultation; and the words of the...
20Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 25 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Casting my eye over a printed copy of the late Report of the Visitors of the University , I discovered that the statement of the Bursar’s account for the first half of the year, from Oct. 1819. to Mar. 1820. inclusive, was wanting, and turning to the papers on file, I found I had omitted it in making up the documents for the report . this first part of the statement had been duly rendered by...
21Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I write this separate letter, and endorse it as private , to prevent it’s being opened by others in your absence. the object of it is to mention the importance which has been suggested to me of procuring a board of the Literary fund , before the meeting of the Legislature , and of laying the Report of the Visitors before the latter body on the 2 d day of their session if possible. it is...
22Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia , at their last semiannual meeting of Oct. 2 . having agreed to a Report of the conditio n of that institution , it’s disbursements and funds, as required by law, I now inclose it, with the accounts of the Bursar & Proctor . some difference will be found between the Proctor’s account , & the general view presented in the Report of the board ,...
23Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 8 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 5 th was recieved yesterday, and having carefully perused the Report of Feb. 14. 20. and the other papers, I now return them according to your request. I have marked with a pencil in the 4 th page of the Report two items which, if I understand them, may I hope be disposable in favor of the University , to wit, Amount of arrears to schools not drawn in 1818. 40,632.20 Surplus...
24Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 16 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of the 13 th ult. to the Secretary of the board of the Literary fund I stated to him that whenever it should be the wish of the board to close the contract for the loan of 20,000.D. to the Visitors of the University of Virginia I would execute the necessary bond on his sending me a copy of it. the Visitors are to meet on the 2 d of October , and if it would suit the convenience of
25Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Apr. 10. on the subject of the loan of 40, thousand dollars to the Visitors of the University , I stated that they would prefer obtaining the remaining 20,000.D. which they were authorised to borrow, from the Literary fund also rather than from any other. I beg leave to recall the attention of the Directors of that fund to this proposition, and to ask their determination, as we...
26Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved the resolution of the President & Directors of the Literary fund of Mar. 25. proposing to lend to the Visitors of the University of Virginia the sum of 40,000.D. on the pledge of their annuity of 15,000 D for the repayment of the principal in by five equal & annual instalments, beginning 3. years after the date of the loan; and of the regular payment of interest in the mean...
27Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved a copy of the resolution of the President and Directors of the Literary fund of the 28 th Ult. expressing their willingness to make to the Visitors of the University the loan of 60,000.D. authorised by the late act for finishing it’s buildings. this resolution proposes to advance 20,000 D. on the 1 st of the ensuing month of April , and the residue in convenient...
28From James Madison to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 February 1820 (Madison Papers)
The writer of the inclosed letter has thought proper to pass it to you thro’ my hands. My acquaintance with him is of the most accidental & transient kind. It justifies me however in believing him to have personal worth, as well as respectable connections. Of the degree of his eccentricity you can be best informed by the two Engineers who are from his neighbourhood. I recd. lately the inclosed...
29Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Wood has sent me the inclosed queries with a request to put them into the hands of some one for answers. I will not suppose him so unreasonable as to have meant them for myself, the collection of materials for others to write books with being out of the question at my age, when nothing but absolute necessity can urge me to write even a common letter. you know the characters of our county...
30Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I will now give you an account of my prosperity and adversity for these nine years past. In the year 1812, I was as independent as any person in this City . my property, real, personal & mixt, was then worth $2700 clear of all incumbranc. The losses I sustained during the war; was not less than $1600; leaving out the loss of time: and money spent while on the campaignes— and keeping my family...
31Enclosure: Thomas Mann Randolph (1792–1848) to Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 March [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this M r Calverley is by profession a painter, he has done a great deal of painting for me at Tuckahoe , & I can recommend him as an excellent workman, surpassed by none in Richmond , & is withall one of the most industrious, steady, & deserving tradesmen that I know any where—he is desirous to get employment at the Central college ; & feeling convinced that no man can be...
32From James Madison to Thomas Mann Randolph, 24 October 1817 (Madison Papers)
I recd. on the 22d. inst: your letter of the 14th. making known to me, “that the Agricultural Society of Albemarle &c” had been pleased to make choice of me, for its “Honorary Head.” The high degree in which I value the objects of the Institution, and the particular respect I entertain for its members, do not permit me to decline so flattering a distinction. I shd. accept it nevertheless with...
33Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Judge Peters, president of the board of agriculture at Philadelphia , solliciting either a drawing or a model of your hill-side plough. I prefer sending it to you while at Varina , because as you have Isaac there you may find it as easy to have the plough made there as a model, and from Varina you can give it a ready passage to Philadelphia . this however as is...
34Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer mr George Flower is an English gentleman farmer, on a tour of the US. to look for a settlement for his family and friends. he was the travelling companion of mr Birkbeck thro’ France in the tour we possess, and brings me letters from M. de la Fayette and de Lasteyrie who speak in the highest terms of his worth. he is well informed of the affairs of Europe , and particularly of...
35Conveyance of Carlton by Charles L. Bankhead and Ann C. Bankhead to their Trustees, 1 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifteen between Charles Lewis Bankhead and Anne Cary his wife of the county of Albemarle on the one part, and John Bankhead of the county of Caroline , father of the sd Charles L. Thomas Mann Randolph father of the sd Anne C., and Reuben Lindsay both of the same county of Albemarle
36Conveyance of Land Adjoining Carlton by Thomas Jefferson to Trustees of Charles L. Bankhead and Ann C. Bankhead, 1 April … (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture tripartie tripartite made on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifteen between Thomas Jefferson of the county of Albemarle of the first part, Anne Cary Bankhead wife of Charles L. Bankhead and grandaughter of the sd Thomas, of the county of Albemarle also, on the second part, and John Bankhead of the county of Caroline
37Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your motions have hitherto put it out of our power to write to you from the uncertainty of the times and places at which a letter could meet you. your last however from Cayuga removes the difficulty, as we presume a letter now written will find you at Headquarters, and that these will be somewhere in the line between Sacket’s harbor and Montreal . we have heard of the movements of Gen l...
38From James Madison to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 November 1813 (Madison Papers)
Having taken one liberty in nominating you to your present Station without a previous warrant from yourself, I ought the less to take another without that sanction. If the inclosed commission with a blank for its date should be worth your acceptance and not interfere with predetermined views, I shall feel much gratification in having transmitted it for your consideration. Should it have no...
39Peter Minor to Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The directors of the Rivanna company intend to recommence their operations on Monday next Their first essay will be at the Milton falls, where they have determined to make a sluice around the Island in preference to improving the sluice one which y r self & M r Jefferson have attempted. This course they deem much more practicable in the execution, & much safer for the passage of boats, on...
40Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Randolph & McKinney, [ca. 10 June 1812] (Jefferson Papers)
1811. Mess rs Randolph & M c Kinney D r for Rents for Crop of Wheat. Coopering Barrels cash articles Toll mill bush. Corn large Mill Bar. flour
41Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I told Newby that I should refer to yourself entirely the choice of an overseer, but that before the evening I would write to you on the subject. I was just going over to Goodman’s , to make some enquiry about his brother , Tomlins , E t c. he tells me it is a brother whose name I have forgot who drinks. I think it began with an F., but that Nathan is perfectly sober, good humored towards the...
42Authorization to Thomas Mann Randolph to Sell Land, 15 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, Thomas Mann Randolph is authorized by me to make sale of any portion of my Poplar Forest lands, and I oblige myself to confirm the same and to convey a title accordingly. Given under my hand at Monticello this 15 th day of December 1809 . PoC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ: “Randolph. TM. Dec. 15. 09.” Not recorded in SJL . Randolph faced a financial crisis caused by his own debts,...
43Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph (1792–1848), 2 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 15. came to hand only yesterday. I hasten therefore to inclose you letters to my two most particular friends Gen l Dearborne & mr Gerry . the latter lives at Cambridge . Gen l Dearborne lives, I believe, three miles from Boston , but comes to his office in town probably every day or two. wishing you a pleasant journey & profitable residence there, I salute you with esteem &...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By yesterday’s mail I learn that it would be the desire of many of the good citizens of our county to meet me on the road on my return home, as a manifestation of their good will. but it is quite impossible for me to ascertain the day on which I shall leave this. the accumulated business at the close of a session will prevent my making any preparation for my departure till after the 4th. of...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I thought Congress had taken their ground firmly for continuing their embargo till June, & then war. but a sudden & unaccountable revolution of opinion took place the last week, chiefly among the N. England & N. York members, & in a kind of panic they voted the 4th. of March for removing the embargo, & by such a majority as gave all reason to believe they would not agree either to war or...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your kind letter of the 20th. certainly I shall be much pleased to recieve your aid & counsel in the management of my farms, which will become so essential. my whole life has been past in occupations which kept me from any minute attention to them, and finds me now with only very general ideas of the theory of agriculture, without actual experience: at a time of life too...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the reciept of your letter I communicated to mr Nicholas so much of it as related to Varina. he & mr Patterson dined with me two days ago. mr Patterson, it seems, never meant to purchase more land than a mere seat, and small farm for it’s support. with this mr Nicholas has supplied him near Warren, & he begins to build in the spring. in the choice of a situation, his first...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The general mind of Congress seems now to be rallying to a certain course of proceeding. a bill will be brought in tomorrow for convening Congress about the middle of May. it will be of course that in the debate members will declare the intention to be then to take off the embargo & if the belligerent edicts be not repealed, to issue letters of marque & reprisal. this will let Europe see that...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson wrote to me a few days ago to know whether he had ever had the small pox, & added that till he could learn that fact he kept himself from the Anatomical dissections by advice of Dr. Wistar. I wrote him that I thought I recollected that he & Anne were inoculated in Richmond under your eye, but that I was not quite certain. will you be so good as to give the answer by return of post...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose a letter from Jefferson to Ellen which I presume will inform the family of his health. I sent for your perusal last week a letter from Dr. Wistar strongly urging his attendance on the chemical lectures. we had supposed, you know, that it would be best for him to confine himself, while at Philadelphia, to those branches of science for which that place has peculiar advantages, that is...