1To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 1 April 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
I want to know what day you are going to come and see me, and if you will bring Sister Patsy, and my baby with you. I was mighty glad of my sash’s , and gave Cousin Booling one. I can almost read. Your affectionate daughter, RC ( MHi ); in the hand of Elizabeth Wayles Eppes; addressed: “Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ: “Jefferson Polly.” Noted in SJL as received 16 Apr. in a letter from Mrs....
2To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, [ca. 13 September 1785?] (Jefferson Papers)
I want to see you and sister Patsy, but you must come to Uncle Eppes’s house. MS not found. The text is taken from Randolph, Domestic Life Sarah N. Randolph, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson , p. 104, where it is printed with two other undated letters from Mary Jefferson. Though there is no evidence to prove that this letter is the one without date which TJ recorded in SJL as received 19...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, [ca. 22 May 1786?] (Jefferson Papers)
I long to see you, and hope that you and sister Patsy are well; give my love to her and tell her that I long to see her, and hope that you and she will come very soon to see us. I hope you will send me a doll. I am very sorry that you have sent for me. I don’t want to go to France, I had rather stay with Aunt Eppes. Aunt Carr, Aunt Nancy and Cousin Polly Carr are here. Your most happy and...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, [ca. 31 March 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
I should be very happy to see you, but I can not go to France, and hope that you and sister Patsy are well. Your affectionate daughter. Adieu. MS not found. Text is from Randolph, Domestic Life Sarah N. Randolph, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson , p. 104, where it is printed as one of three undated letters from Mary Jefferson (see also Mary Jefferson to TJ, ca. 13 Sep. 1785 and ca. 22 May...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 25 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid you will be displeased in knowing where I am, but I hope you will not, as Mr. Randolph certainly had some good reason, though I do not know it. I have not been able to read in Don Quixote every day, as I have been travelling ever since I saw you last, and the dictionary is too large to go in the pocket of the chariot, nor have I yet had an opportunity of continuing my music. I am...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 23 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your affectionate letter when I was at presqu’isle but was not able to answer it before I came here as the next day we went to uncle Bolings and then came here. I thank you for the pictures you was so kind as to send me and will try that your advise shall not be thrown away. I read in don quixote every day to my aunt and say my grammer in spanish and english and write and read in...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 20 July [1790] (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will excuse my not writing to you before tho I have none for myself I am very sorry to hear that you have been sick but flatter myself that it is over. My aunt skipwith has been very sick but she is better now. We have been to see her two or three times. You tell me in your last letter that you will see me in september but I have received a letter from my Brother that says you will...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, [ca. 11 August 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your last favour july 25 and am determined to write to you every day till I have discharged my debt. When we were in Cumberland we went to Church and heard some singing Masters that sung verywell. They are to come here to learn my cousins to sing and as I know you have no objections to my learning any thing I am to be a scholar and hope to give you the pleasure of hearing...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 13 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry that my not having wrote to you before made you doubt of my affection towards you and hope that after having read my last letter you were not so displeased as at first. In my last I said that my sister was very well but she was not. She had been very sick all day without my knowing any thing of it as I stayed upstairs the whole day. However she is very well now and the little...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 6 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
According to my dear Papa’s request I now set down to write. We were very uneasy for not having had a letter from you since six weeks till yesterday I received yours which I now answer. The marble Pedestal and a dressing table are come. Jenny is gone down with Mrs. Fleming who came here to see sister while she was sick. I suppose you have not received the letter in which Mr. Randolph desires...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 26 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
It is three weeks my Dear Papa since I have had a letter from you. However as it is now my turn I shall not be ceremonious. We are all waiting with great impatience to know the name of the child. Mrs. Lewis was so kind as to give me a Calico habit. Adieu my Dear Papa. I am your effectionate daughter, RC ( ViU ); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Apr. 1791 and so recorded in SJL .
12To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 18 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of March 31st the 14th of this month; as for that of March 9, I received it some time last month, but I do not remember the day. I have finished Don Quixote, and as I have not Desoles yet, I shall read Lazarillo de Tormes. The garden is backward, the inclosure having but lately been finished. I wish you would be so kind as to send me seven yards of cloth like the piece I...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 1 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
As Bob is going down the country to morrow we shall all write to you by this opportunity. We expect jenny and nancy Randolph here in july. Mr. Randolph has bought a horse called my heart and a saddle for me to ride out on also a pretty whip. My niece is prettier and prettier everyday. This place is beautiful now. The peaches cherrys and strawberries are very big allready and there are a great...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 29 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you for the veil that you sent me and shall allways were it. I have began to learn botany and arithmetic with Mr. Randolph. The mare that he bought for me is come. She is very pretty and is sister to brimmer. She can only trot and canter. The fruit was not killed as you thought. We have a great abundance of it here. Adieu Dear Papa I am your affectionate daughter, P.S....
15To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 16 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received both your letters, that from Lake George and of June 26th. I am very much obliged to you for them, and think that the bark you wrote on prettier than paper. Mrs. Monroe and Aunt Bolling are here. My aunt would have written to you, but she was unwell. She intends to go to the North Garden. Mr. Monroe is gone to Williamsburg to stay two or three weeks, and has left his lady here....
16To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 27 February 179[7] (Jefferson Papers)
We arrived here, Dear Papa, last thursday without any accident and found my sister and her children in perfect health; she enjoying the satisfaction arising from the consciousness of fulfilling her duty to the utmost extent. But it is one she has always had. It would please you, I am sure, to see what an economist, what a manager she is become. The more I see of her the more I am sensible how...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 12 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters to my sister and myself did not arrive here till the 9th. They were stopt in Fredericksburg by the sickness of the post boy, and were at last sent round by Richmond. We learnt with sorrow indeed that you had again been tormented by your rheumatism, the consolation of seeing you when you are ill is the only one I know—and I never feel the distress of separation as much as then. I...