1Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 25 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Being so much more within writing distance here than at Monticello , and with time freer from interruption, I avail myself of it to renew to you the assurances of my constant friendship, and my wishes for your health and happiness. and as brother Jonathan must have become stale and lost his powers of excitement, I send you a little work of a higher order to make you laugh on a gloomy day. it...
2Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 1 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your letter , the date of which I cannot quote because I have it not with me: but I joined you sincerely in the joy expressed on the transactions at New Orleans . they were to me infinitely pleasing to me because they proved that the people there were faithful to the Union, that the place could be defended, & that Kentucky and Tenissee would fly to it’s defence. of the...
3Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 23 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 10. travelled to Monticello , thence to Richmond , thence to Lynchburg , and came to me here on the same day with one of the same date from Gen l Clarke at S t Louis . this must apologise for a late answer, as it’s finding me in the act of packing up for my return must for a short one. as far as I am acquainted with the colleges and academies of the
4Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 28 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Sincerely sympathising, my dear Madam, with yourself & friends on the apostacy of William Brown from every thing which had been believed of him. I have been for some time intending to express my condolance, but really was at a loss how much to believe of what the newspapers have said. your letter, just recieved , gives us the first details on which we can rely. it is certainly the most...
5Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 10 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I brought the inclosed book to this place, the last fall, intending to forward it to you; but having a neighbor here who loves to laugh, I lent it to him to read; he lent it to another, and so it went the rounds of the neighborhood and is returned to me at my Spring visit to this place. I now forward it, and if it diverts you for an hour or two, I shall be gratified by it. I was myself amused...
6Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 26 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The mail between us passes very slowly. your letter of Nov. 17. reached this place on the 14 th inst only. I think while you were writing it the candles must have burnt blue, and that a priest or some other Conjurer should have been called in to exorcise your room.—to be serious however, your view of things is more gloomy than necessary. true, we are at war; that that war was unsuccesful by...
7Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 28 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am here, my dear Madam alive and well, and notwithstanding the murderous histories of the winter, I have not had an hour’s sickness for a twelvemonth past. I feel myself indebted to the fable however for the friendly concern expressed in your letter , which I recieved in good health, by my fireside at Monticello . these stories will come true one of these days, and poor printer Davies need...
8Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 10 June 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
My visits to this place, considered as a halfway-house, rekindle the desire of bringing myself to your recollection, and afford me at the same time more leisure to do so. I left all your friends at Monticello well, and the happier that mr Randolph had resigned his military commission. at Farmington not so much health: mrs Divers generally indisposed; and mr Divers has been all the winter, and...
9Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 10 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of a date which I cannot quote, because I have it not here, & I avail myself of this half way house to acknolege it. we were all happy to learn that you were well. in good spirits we always presume you are. with the benefit of the pleasing society of the family in which you are, we know that as to that of the neighborhood, you can always accomodate yourself to...
10Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 24 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great thankfulness your kind congratulations on my liberation from the duties & anxieties of my late situation. five & twenty years of affectionate acquaintance (perhaps it is uncivil to recall such a period to a single lady) leave me without a doubt of their sincerity. of the ground of congratulation nobody can be a more feeling judge than myself. I my present freedom of...