31From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 13 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. came to hand on the 11th. which is quicker than has been usual. I see by an advertisement in the Virginia papers that the post to Charlottesville and Staunton is now established, so that on your return to Monticello I am in hopes you will find a more certain and quick conveyance than we have hitherto had for our letters. I will thank you for information of the days...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 23 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you from George town inclosing some seed of the best white wheat. Our journey here was without accident, except that of retardation by the rains. Our delay happened however at the Susquehanna, where the abundance of Sheldrakes was some solace. My newly purchased horse ( Brimmer ) performed well; I drove him a good deal in the carriage. I do not think he lost a pound of flesh on the...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowlege the reciept of your favour of Apr. 7. which came to hand on the 20th. I hope my letters on the subject of my tobacco have got to hand in time to prevent any contract there interfering with the sale I made here. I learn that 4. hhds. more are coming on. Being entitled to the highest price given before payment, I believe I shall be sure of 5⅓ dollars which will neat me 29/3...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had always intended to endeavor to engage with some miller of capital here to erect my mill on such plan as he should chuse and then rent it to him for a term of years. Your letter informing me that Mr. Divers and others were proposing to take Mr. Henderson’s mill, but that they had not been able to agree, induces me to suppose it possible they might be willing to take mine. I should propose...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received yours of the 20th. mentioning the proposition of Mr. John Ashlin to rent Elkhill the ensuing year, paying one fourth of the crop and putting only the low grounds into Indian corn. I do not know what proportion the present tenant was to pay, but it is pretty well established as a rule that where the landlord stocks the land the tenant pays half the produce in rent: where...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to Mr. Madison is extremely confidential. Should it arrive before they set off with my horse, it may be sent by that opportunity; otherwise I will thank you to send a messenger express with it. Having written to you to-day by post I shall only add assurances of the sincere esteem of Dear Sir Your’s affectionately RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Thomas M. Randolph junr. esq....
37From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 14th. Mine of the 2d. ought to have been then at hand, and since that those of the 10th. and 17th. All will have informed you of my health, and being here. I am happy that you think Tarquin will suit you, and insist on your acceptance of him. This is no sacrifice to me, because my sole motive for having thought of parting with him was that he is...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am setting out on a trip to Rhode-island with the President tomorrow, by water. We shall be absent about 5. or 6. days, and of course his departure hence to the Southward will be that much later than he intended, and my departure, which must be after his, a little delayed. Still I hope to reach Monticello by the 15th. of September, or from that to the 20th. We have just concluded a treaty...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
After having experienced on my journey the extremes of heat, cold, dust and rain, I arrived here yesterday. I found at Baltimore that the stages run no further North, and being from that circumstance thrown into the hands of the harpies who prey upon travellers, was pretty well fleeced to get here. I think from Fredericksburg here with a single servant cost me upwards of seventy dollars....
40From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to my daughter on the 24th. since which Maria has received yours of the 13th . Some cold nights lately make us fear for the fruit in Virginia. We have nothing remarkeable from abroad but what you will see in Freneau’s paper. Fenno’s will go to you through Mr. Madison. Private letters strengthen the idea of a civil war in England, and of a very general war through Europe. I am in hopes...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 January 179[1] (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day recieved your favor of Dec. It is the first and only news I have had from home since I left it. I have written some scolding letters on this account. I am very sorry for the discontinuance of the Charlottesville post, and will contribute any thing reasonable for it’s reestablishment provided it goes from Charlottesville to Richmond directly, and returns there in like manner. In...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 29 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The President sets out tomorrow. I shall follow two or three days after, so that allowing for stoppages on the road I shall be at Monticello about the 18th. of Sep. unless I should go by the way of Mt. Vernon which will add a delay of two or three days. I hope I shall have the happiness of meeting yourself and my daughters there. Tho’ I count on remaining there a month, yet it will be subject...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of July 14. I asked the favor of you to send off the horse you had been so kind as to procure for me, on the 1st. of Sep. to meet Tarquin at Georgetown, who is to be sent from hence, there the riders to exchange horses, Tarquin to be carried to Monticello, and the other brought here. I have since that received your letter of July 31. and Maria has received one of Aug. 8. neither...
44From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have as yet no direct confirmation from France of the retreat of the D. of Brunswick. However so many circumstances are stated in the English papers as to leave no doubt of the fact.—Wheat is fallen from 125 to 113 cents. This has been effected by the bank here, which refused to merchants purchasing wheat here the aids it has been in the habit of furnishing. Merchants no longer getting...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your’s of the 7th. and am sincerely afflicted with the return of Anne’s indisposition. Having little confidence myself in medecine and especially in the case of infants, and a great deal in the efforts of nature, I direct my hopes towards them. Her mother was so much lower for 6 months, and was recovered almost instantaneously by a good breast of milk, that it learnt me to...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 20 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received last week your favour from Bizarre. The papers now forwarded will give you the general news. We have an odd story here from Baltimore of Genl. Scott’s having fallen on the Indians and killed 700. of them, tho it was not known that any expedition was meditated. You will perceive that the public effects have fallen. The people begin to see the fallacy and mischeif of the gambling...
47V. Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to Maria this day sennight, and to Martha three days before, to wit June 23. In this letter I asked information to be obtained from Colo. Lewis relative to my tobo. of which I had heard nothing. But having received the day after a letter from him, giving me full information, I mentioned in mine to Maria, that no notice should be taken of my desire expressed in the letter to her sister....
48From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 15 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 4th. inst. and am happy to hear our prospects of wheat are so good. I the more wonder at it when I recollect we were very late in our sowing last fall. As to Indian corn I think there is yet time for it to come to. I concur with you in opinion that it is a very hurtful culture to such lands as ours. I have been hesitating between it’s total abolition, and...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 September 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 26th. Ult . since which I have received yours of the 14th. Ult. Maria is well, and is with me on the Schuylkill. A malignant fever has been generated in the filth of the docks of Philadelphia which has given great alarm. It is considerably infectious. At first 3 out of 4. died, at present not more than one out of three. Three days ago (my latest information) about 70. had...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The first part of our journey was pleasant, except some hair-breadth escapes which our new horse occasioned us in going down hills the first day or two, after which he behaved better, and came through the journey preserving the fierceness of his spirit to the last. I believe he will make me a valuable horse. Mrs. Washington took possession of Maria at Vernon and only restored her to me here....
51From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 9 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of April 23. with those of the 25th. from the girls. The object of the present is merely to acknowledge their receipt and to inclose you the newspapers; an attack of the periodical head-ach, which came on me about a week ago rendering me unable as yet either to write or read without great pain. It has been abating for some days, and has been so slight to-day...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 5 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We arrived here safely last night, and without any accident on the road. We are pursuing our journey this morning to the city where we shall dine, but as the post will be set out before our arrival and a letter from hence will reach Monticello a week sooner than if written after our arrival in Philadelphia, I have thought it better to drop a line from hence. My anxiety to hear frequently from...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 8 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 1st. inst. since which your favor of the 29th. Dec. is come to hand. I had before received a letter from Mr. Forster on the subject of leasing Elkhill for a term of years. But as, in order to pay off Mr. Wayles’s debt to Farrell & Jones, I must part with some property, and I can spare this more conveniently than any other, it would not be prudent for me to put it out of my...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 12 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. came to hand on the 9th. and brought me the welcome news that you were all well, about which I was anxious, having left Martha not quite as well as I wished. The short proceeds of my sale the last year obliged me to a small one this year, which would have been unnecessary had the other yeilded as was reasonably expected. I therefore, while at home, sent orders to...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my letter of the last week to my daughter yours of the 7th. to me and of the 14th. to Maria have come to hand and made us happy by announcing that all are well.—I informed you in my last of a scheme I had of leasing my lands on the Shadwell side of the river. Since that I have learned that, about the same time, two persons from the Head of Elk (the neighborhood where I was endeavoring to...
56From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Our news from France continues to be good, and to promise a continuance. The event of the revolution there is now little doubted of, even by it’s enemies. The sensations it has produced here, and the indications of them in the public papers, have shewn that the form our own government was to take depended much more on the events of France than any body had before imagined. The tide which,...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 18 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved about a fortnight ago your favor of Jan. 24. and by this week’s post Maria received the one addressed to her. I am extremely pleased with the progress of the work at Monticello, and indebted to you for it, as also for communicating it, as well as the account of the sales in Bedford. I am in hopes of procuring tenants in Maryland for all my lands on the Shadwell side of the river at...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 4 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your favor of Feb. 17. informing us you were all safely moored at Monticello. With still greater I learn that you are at length sure of Edgehill. It is a fine tract of land, and will make you happier by furnishing a pleasing occupation. It secures too, what is essential to my happiness, our living near together. It seems as if you had more snow Southwardly...
59From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 12 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you some wheat which the President assures me from many years experience to be the very best kind he has ever seen. He spread it through the E[aster]n shore of Maryland several years ago, and it has ever be[en c]onsidered as the very best of the white wheat of that state so much celebrated. It is said to weigh 62. 63. 64. lb to the bushel. The grain, tho’ small, is always plump. The...
60From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of Oct. 22. and am much relieved by the favorable account of dear Anne’s health. The journey you meditate will probably be of service to her. It is more doubtful as to the young hero, as at his age they stand travelling worse. However the short stages you propose may prevent injury. Colo. and Mrs. Monroe arrived yesterday as also Mr. Madison. The members of...