3331From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 14 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 11th. is recieved, and is the best letter you have ever written me because it is the longest and fullest of that small news which I have most pleasure in recieving. with great news I am more than surfieted from other quarters, and in order that your letters may not be shortened by a bad pen of which you complain, I have got a pen for you which will be always good, never...
3332From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 19 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have nothing better to send you than an old song, but indeed I could send you nothing better. it was much in vogue when I was of your age, & has lost nothing of it’s pathos by time. it shews the wonderful sources of comfort which open themselves to every condition of man. I have not heard from the family since I left them at Monticello, but I always hope the next post will bring me a letter....
3333From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 19 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th was recieved the day before yesterday, and as the season for engrafting is passing rapidly by I will not detain the apple-cuttings for mr Gray, until I may have other matter for writing a big letter to you. I send a dozen cuttings, as much as a letter can protect, by our 1 st mail, and wish they may retain their vitality until they reach him. they are called the...
3334From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter has been written near a fortnight and has laid by me awaiting a pacotille which your Mama was making up of some things omitted to be sent to you with those so unfortunately lost. that is now made up and will be immediately forwarded to Richmond to the care of Col o Peyton. Privately owned.
3335From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
This is our postday, and I have been so engaged that the hour of dinner & company are arriving before I could begin a letter to you. I shall therefore merely say we are all well, & I hope we shall hear to-night that all are well at Edgehill. tell your Mama, while you kiss her for me, that Rigden has returned & delivered me her watch neatly done, which will be sent by your papa. I send you...
3336Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 14 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been, my dear Ellen, without subject for a letter to you until one has been furnished by my the sale of my tobacco. in this you also will feel somewhat of interest, inasmuch as it enables me to replenish your moyens de jouissance , by remitting to mr Barnes 100.D. for you. I do this by the present mail , and have chosen his cover because I thought it would go safer in that way; and...
3337From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 25 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s & your Mama’s letters of the 20th. are recieved. tell her I will take care of her accounts with mrs Madison. I thank you for your care of my wines. I will endeavor to send bottles for the two doubtful casks into which you have drawn a part. I put a letter from Jefferson to your Mama into your Papa’s newspaper packet which went by the stage yesterday. yours to him shall be immediately...
3338From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 14 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 13. to mr Coolidge, I gave an account of the riot we had had at the University, and of it’s termination. you will both of course be under anxiety till you know how it has gone off?—with the best effects in the world. having let it be understood, from the beginning, that we wished to trust very much to the discretion of the Students themselves for their own government. with...
3339From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter was safely delivered to miss Forrest who was here yesterday well. I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. it is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrasments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions. we have had such a week of hot weather as has never probably been known before in this country. my thermometer has been as follows Monday...
3340From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with deep concern, my dearest Ellen, that the family has been unwell generally, that you have been ill, and your Mama indisposed. Anne informs me you are getting better but does not say whether your Mama is so also. yet, in the absence of your Papa, her health is doubly important because her care is necessary for you all. I hope this will find you all recovered. your friends here are...