1To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 27 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I now set down to write to you and hope you will answer my letter I have often tried to do it...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 4 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recievd my Dear Grand Papa’s letter, and am very much obliged to him for it, since I...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 20 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
How was I disappointed at not recieving a letter from my Dear Grand Papa this Post in answer to...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect you think I have forgotten the Promise I made you of writing to you every Post but I...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot let slip so good an opportunity of writing to my Dear Grandpapa as now offers itself...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 4 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved my Dear Grandpapas letter with great pleasure and should have answered it last post...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 14 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now preparing myself to write a short letter to my Dear Grandpapa and hope he will let me...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The post is going directly and I only have time to write a few lines to let you know that we are...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 12 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved the Bantams for which I am very much obliged to you they seem to be larger, and...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 19 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter my Dear Grand Papa found us well and conveyed the gratefull intelligence of your...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I could not miss so good an opportunity of writing to you my Dear Grand Papa as now offers itself...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 30 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been a long time since I have heard from my Dear Grandpapa although he is two letters in...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 17 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I suspect that it would be more reasonable to think that your owing me 3 letters proceeds from my...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 6 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fear of being a bankrupt is not badly founded as for I think if we were to count our letters...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 6 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope my dear grandpapa, will excuse my long silence; when he knows the reason of it which was...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 11 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
This is the second letter I have written to my dear granpapa without recieving an answer but as I...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 8 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have written to you post before last but I was not at home and newyears day I did write...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your letter of the 12 yesterday and am very much obliged to you for the Poetry you...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 22 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I hardly think it worthwhile to write to you for I have no news nor any thing agreable to tell...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My dearest Grand Papa must have a bad opinion of my affection for him if he can suppose that I...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 11 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In compliance with my promise I Take up my pen To write to my Dear Grandpapa. I was disappointed...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 18 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am glad my Dear Grand papa expresses approbation at my writing about little things as I always...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 25 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall write a few lines to inform my dear Grandpapa that all are well here except James and he...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My dear Grand papa’s letter of the 29th arrived safe yesterday and brought the disagreeable news...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 14 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length guessed right my Dear Grandpapa, about the pen, and am very glad to find it is...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 21 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My dearest Grand papa must not imagine because he received no letter last post that I did not...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been three weeks since my Dear Grand papa has been away and I have not written once but I...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I have only a torn sheet of paper to write upon yet rather than to neglect writing at all I...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 11 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect every moment That They will come to carry my letters to the post office but still I have...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
With this letter I send you a book which is in a miserable and tattered condition which if you...
31To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 23 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not time this post but will certainly write the next I am dear Grandpapa your affectionate...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I would have written to you last post, if I had had time, but I am determined to do it this,...
33Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 14 th reached me yesterday and I hasten to return you thanks for this new...
34Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 10 November 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
We were a good deal disappointed at not recieving letters from some of the family in the large...
35Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August [1817], document 2 in a group of … (Jefferson Papers)
Cornelia will probably give Virginia a detail of our Journey to the Natural Bridge —for me it was...
36Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [after 29 August 1817], document 3 in a group of … (Jefferson Papers)
Johnny’s arrival gave us great pleasure as we began to be very anxious to hear from you, and I...
37Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Grandpapa has been taking such a long nap, my dear Mother that I began to despair of getting ink...
38Extracts 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...
39Extracts 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...
40Enclosure: Edy Turner’s Vocabulary of the Nottoway Language, 4 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Vocabulary of the language of the Nottoway Tribe of Indians, obtained from an old Indian Woman of...
41Extract 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...
42Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
After a great many inquiries I have at length discovered two copies of Cardelli ’s busts of M r...
43Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed writing to you, from post to post, my dearest Grandpapa , always hoping that I...
44To John Adams from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
My Grandfather informs me that you have expressed a wish to hear from him through my means, since...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having reached Boston in safety, my dearest grandfather, one of my first cares is to write to...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Rev. M r Brazer, a Unitarian Clergyman of Salem in this State, asks from M r Coolidge or...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 14. & 26. my dearest Grandpapa, gave me a degree of pleasure only to be...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose a bill for the brandy &c my dearest Grandpapa, by which you will see that we have still...