31To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters to Martha & myself came to us, hers on the 4. mine on the 11. instant. She is much better than I ever knew her to be in her present case tho’ the swelling of the extremities she had in :99 occurrs this time allso. The children enjoy complete health generally but have all taken colds in the late N.E. storm, which appeared on them last night for the first time: they will not affect...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I suspect I omitted to acknowledge your letter preceding that of 5th. inst. I received it on my return from Amherst and did with it, & in regard to Martha as you directed. With respect to others no occasion of any kind has occurred since, for me to do any thing; & perhaps never may, that subject having ceased I believe to afford discourse to the malignant, as well as the idle and inquisitive....
33To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 29 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
My struggle with Colo. Cabell has terminated in my favor for the present, after nine days continuance; but the majority is so small, only 13 in the whole District, that I may perhaps yet, if he should resolve to contest my election, lose my seat. My belief at this moment is that he has more bad votes than myself but it is founded on a scrutiny of the Amherst polls only, which I had examined by...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Martha may now be said with certainty to have recovered perfectly. She has had no cough or complaint of any kind, nor ever a sentiment of debility or languor, for many days and has regained no inconsiderable degree of flesh. Her appetite and digestion are both right and her spirits as good as ever they were. Her strength has returned so well and she has got so much accustomed to the open air...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry I cannot inform you of Marthas perfect recovery. She caught cold soon after she got through her severe illness and has been much kept back by it in the recovery of her appetite strength & flesh. She had a pain in the heart somedays but that has now left her except now & then for a few minutes together and then but slight. She is very thin & looks badly at present yet there is not...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am requested by Mr. Peachy Gilmer to communicate to you the melancholy news of the death of H. B. Trist of the yellow fever on the 29th. Augt. at New Orleans. I do what he desires though I make no doubt you have before this time heard it from the government there. He learned it by a letter from Jno M. Gelston who observes that he writes because Willm. Brown is so closely & constantly...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived in time to deliver your letters & with the truest joy inform you that your wish is completely gratified. The house of Delegates met at one: W: Giles nominated W’m. Wert: George K. Taylor A. Stewart for Clerk : something was said of character but political sentiments were directly urged by Giles, John Taylor & Nicolas as the true cause of the change desired and that argument was...
38Recommendation of William McClure by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer W m M c lure removed from N.C. to this neighborhood under an engagement to instruct us in the use of the Spinning Jenny. several of these machines have been made by him & by our own workmen, and our Spinners are taught to use them so completely as to ensure our being able to clothe our own people by the labor of a few of the least useful of them. his principal profession is that of...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 24 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been today to see your Mill & Canal. The river being uncommonly full afforded an opportunity to judge what work is yet wanting for the complete introduction of its water to the Wheel at all times. What I saw and judged I cannot refrain from communicating as I mentioned rather inconsiderately the report of the neighbourhood in my last , as unfavorable as it was, and as likely to be...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 18 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I write at the request of one of my neighbours, George Faris , to inform you he wishes to rent 120 acres at Lego on the terms of your leases to Petty & others. He is anxious to know immediately whether he can have that farm in your estate & is unwilling to wait your return as he will lose time in looking out elsewhere. He bears a good character in the neighbourhood, is industrious & well...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am requested by Mr. Richard S. Hackley of New York to endeavor to procure for him information from Washington whether the Consulship at Bourdeaux has been lately vacated or not by the relinquishment or displacement of Mr. Lee. Certain connexions between him and myself forbid my refusing this request however disagreeable it is to comply with it. Being fully convinced that he cannot have an...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
We are all well except Martha: she has frequent slight indispositions which she attributes to incipient pregnancy and yet has not resolution to wean Cornelia alltho’ she is so robust as to have got her mouth set with teeth without our notice. Martha will yield to our persuasions and separate her shortly I am satisfied. I have nothing to say on your affairs unless that Lillie is likely to make...
43Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter with the papers of the Literary Board again at 10 A.M. today. Hoping to hear from home I sent to the P. office yesterday evening, but they would not open the Mail untill a late hour today, as the Messenger of the Executive reported to me when he returned. The Bond you desire is inclosed, M r Munford having this instant waited on me with it. The Blank being filled with...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 23 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of 14. inst: gave us the intelligence, which we ever expect yet allways hear with delight, of your health. Martha is in the most florid health; Virginia, the children, all of us indeed, well.—I have just learnt by a messenger I sent to Poplar forest this week that Clarke is well & has planted a good deal of Tob’o. I learn with sorrow that the French are about to get possession of...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 27 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Rawlings who hands you this having a desire to render service to the U.S. upon the Mississippi in some civil capacity has applied to me among others to certify to the proper authority what we know of his fitness and pretentions to be so employed. So long an interval has happened in my acquaintance & intercourse with Mr Rawlings that it is not proper for me to pronounce as decisively with...
46Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The absent member of the Literary Board arrived yesterday, and the one who had been in town since Wednesday morning last is now absent. What the result may be I cannot divine. I was at Varina yesterday, but returned last night, and shall take care to be in the way constantly myself. But this last spring I was here 3 weeks trying & failing every day to have a Council . with very sincere...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 31. May to Martha arrived yesterday with the pleasant news that your horses w’d. be wanted in the course of another week. Your directions shall be implicitly followed and the horses ready to depart next Saturday Morning. We rejoice here that such wild and ruinous measures as are now taking are to be no longer sanctioned by your presence. While it was possible to avert the...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 15 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Upon my return from Richmond on Monday night Last I found your favor of the 3d. which relieved my mind from much of the uncertainty produced in it by the Gazettes. The practice of publishing every idle rumor which arises from accident or mischievous or foolish design and of using such to support fanciful opinions or give momentary respect to equally idle speculations has brought utter...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 7 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The approach of the 11th. Feb. makes the people here breath long with suspence their axiety is so great. I cannot yet have the least apprehension: I had sometime since made the reasoning that when one only was wanting & that one might be either of Many there could be no ground to fear: the least possible chance of immeasurable evil will however naturally produce more alarm than the certainty...
50To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 16 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
It has occurred to me that perhaps a special licence for me to pass with my Slaves through South Carolina might be obtained from the Executive of that State upon my giving security that not one of them should remain in it. I have not heard that such an application has been made but I do not see any solid reason why leave should not be granted as the end of the laws restraining the passage is...
51To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
We remained at Monticello after you left us till Christmas day on which we paid a visit to George Divers with as many as we could carry; Virginia, Nancy & Ellen-we passed the Christmas with Divers, P. Carr, & Mrs. Trist; assisted at a ball in Charlottesville on the first day of the year and returned on the 4th. to Monticello where we found our children (whom I had not neglected to visit) in...
52To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter inclosing Captain Lewises memorandum came to me regularly: I return him thanks for the information and express my gratitude to you for the credit you offerr me with the Georgia merchants. Long sickness or a broken limb should allways be deemed possible and provided for before hand.—Martha received the medal today: the execution is fine but Ceracchi was much better worth copying...
53To James Madison from Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 October 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour to make known to you, that on Tuesday the 7th. instant, at Charlottesville, a number of respectable Gentlemen of Albemarle and the adjacent Counties, who had held a prior meeting in form on the preceding evening with that view, united themselves to constitute an agricultural Society. An Organization was completed, many regulations were adopted, and the title of “Agricultural...
54Thomas Mann Randolph’s Notes on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [after 23 … (Jefferson Papers)
The answer of G. Divers . Notes by TMR . Qu. 12. ‘and × widened the canal to the extent proposed’ × untrue. ib. ‘the ‡ occupant of the mill.’ ‡ Shoemaker . qu. 18. ‘a considerable accession of grain.’ causes a considble loss of grain for grist. ib. ‘transporting ‡
55To James Madison from Thomas Mann Randolph, 11 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
My promise to my Wife forces me to accept the favor your goodness has offerred. Before I parted with her I assured her that I would do any thing rather than continue to live separate from her for any length of time. To assist in the conquest of Canada has been long a favorite object with me, and the risk, suffering, and toils of another attempt would be born with pleasure. But the pain of...
56To James Madison from Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
My Brother in Law Mr Hackley informs me that he will shortly be in the neighbourhood of your Country Seat, and I ask of him to wait upon you with my homage, which it has, for such a number of years, been my pride to be allowed to pay. His long residence in the Peninsula, and his excellent understanding, and habit of observation, may perhaps enable him to afford you interesting conversation for...
57To James Madison from Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 December 1799 (Madison Papers)
I have just learned here that several letters have been written from this County to the Chief members of the house of Delegates giving information that Wm. Woods the person lately returned Delegate in the place of Wilson Nicolas has never ceased to perform all the functions of a Minister of the Gospel in the Baptist church except that of marrying, the licence for which he resigned immediately...
58Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The House of delegates by resolution of January 19 th called for information concerning “the title by which the commonwealth holds the land included within the limits of the Capitol Square ”. As yet I have been able to procure none worth communicating, and take it for granted that the papers, of whatever kind they were, must have been destroyed when Arnold ravaged the town. I find that six...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Lillie communicated to me, a few days after he had written to you, his intention of leaving Monto. this Autumn. I had never heard a word from him before on the subject although I had learned from others sometime before that he had thoughts of the kind. He says that he finds he is doing nothing for his family which consumes necessarily in the groceries and cloathing he is obliged to buy allmost...
60Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Pendleton a Director of the Literary Fund has within this hour agreed with me to complete the Loan to the University , out of money now in Bank. He authorizes me to assure you of his vote when the Bond arrives, which renders the transaction sure. I need not observe that if M r Griffin s proposition to cancel the debt due from the University should prevail, the loan authorized by the act of...