1Thomas Jefferson to Ann C. Bankhead, 26 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a copy of the Modern Griselda which Ellen tells me will not be unacceptable to you. I therefore inclose it. the heroine presents herself certainly as a perfect model of ingenious perverseness, & of the art of making herself and others unhappy. if it can be made of use in inculcating the virtues and felicities of life, it must be by the rule of contraries. nothing new has...
2Thomas Jefferson to Ann C. Bankhead, 29 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Mama has given me a letter to inclose to you, but whether it contains any thing contraband; I know not. of that the responsibility must be on her. I therefore inclose it. I suppose she gives you all the small news of the place of such as the race in writing between Virginia & Francis ; that the wild geese are well after a flight of a mile & a half into the river, that the plants in the...
3Thomas Jefferson’s Agreement to Convey Bedford County Lands to Charles L. Bankhead, 29 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas Thomas Man n Randolph & Martha his wife by due conveyance from myself were seised in fee Simple of a parcell of Land in the County of Bedford , part of my tract of land called Poplar Forest , containing as conjectured by protraction but not known by actual Survey 1000 Acres of which parcel the said Thomas M. & Martha have conveyed to Anne Moseley 840 Acres being the part on the West...