1From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, [30 May 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Ask, my dear, of Mrs. Pine, what would be the price of Mr. Madison’s picture, and let me know when you come over to-day. RC (Florence P. Kennedy, Washington, D.C., 1962); addressed: “Miss Maria Jefferson.” On 2 June TJ “Pd. Mrs. Pine for Mr. Madison’s picture 37.33,” painted by her late husband, Robert Edge Pine ( Bear and Stanton, Memorandum Books James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 24 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received my dear Maria, your letter of Mar. 26. I find I have counted too much on you as a Botanical and zoological correspondent: for I undertook to affirm here that the fruit was not killed in Virginia, because I had a young daughter there who was in that kind of correspondence with me, and who I was sure would have mentioned it if it had been so. However I shall go on communicating...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 18 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Giles carries your trunk to Baltimore where he will see you tonight. Take out of it whatever you may want before you get to Philadelphia and leave the trunk with Mr. Grant and I will call on him for it. The weather is so bad that perhaps I may not be able to overtake you in the morning as I had hoped: but I shall if possible. Adieu my dear Maria. Yours affectionately, RC ( ViU );...
4IV. Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 30 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect to write to you again till my return to Philada., but as I think always of you, so I avail myself of every moment to tell you so which a life of business will permit. Such a moment is now offered while passing this lake and it’s border, on which we have just landed, has furnished the means which the want of paper would otherwise have denied me. I write to you on the bark of...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 8 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Apr. 18. came to hand on the 30th. That of May 1. I recieved last night. By the stage which carries this letter I send you 12. yards of striped nankeen of the pattern inclosed. It is addressed to the care of Mr. Brown merchant in Richmond, and will arrive there with this letter. There are no stuffs here of the kind you sent. April 30. the lilac blossomed. May 4. the gelder rose,...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 15 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have written to you the last Sunday in turn, but business required my allotting your turn to Mr. Randolph, and putting off writing to you till this day. I have now received yours and your sister’s letters of Nov. 27. and 28. I agree that Watson shall make the writing desk for you.—I called the other day on Mrs. Fullerton, and there saw your friend Sally Cropper. She went up to Trenton...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 25 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
No letter from you yet, my dear Maria. You now owe me four, and I insist on you writing me one every week till you shall have paid the debt. I write to you every three weeks, and I think you have quite as little to do as I have, so that I may expect letter for letter. The account stands at present as follows. Maria Jefferson Dr. to Th: Jefferson Cr. April 11. To letter of this date 1 April 25....
8From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 21 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 10. is the last news I have from Monticello. The time of my setting out for that place is now fixed to some time in the first week of September, so that I hope to be there between the 10th. and 15th. My horse is still in such a condition as to give little hopes of his living: so that I expect to be under a necessity of buying one when I come to Virginia as I informed Mr....
9From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 4 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written you, my dear Maria, four letters since I have been here, and I have received from you only two. You owe me two then, and the present will make three. This is a kind of debt I will not give up. You may ask how I will help myself? By petitioning your aunt, as soon as you receive a letter to make you go without your dinner till you have answered it. How goes on the Spanish? How...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 13 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of May 23. which was in answer to mine of May 2. but I wrote you also on the 23d. of May, so that you still owe me an answer to that, which I hope is now on the road. In matters of correspondence as well as of money you must never be in debt. I am much pleased with the account you give me of your occupations, and the making the pudding is as good an article of them...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 31 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter I have from you, my dear Maria, was of the 29th. of May. which is 9 weeks ago. Those which you ought to have written the 19th. of June and 10th. of July would have reached me before this if they had been written.—I mentioned in my letter of the last week to your sister that I had sent off some stores to Richmond which I should be glad to have carried to Monticello in the course...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 2 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you three weeks ago, and have not yet received an answer. I hope however that one is on the way and that I shall receive it by the first post. I think it very long to have been absent from Virginia two months and not to have received a line either from yourself, your sister or Mr. Randolph, and I am very uneasy at it. As I write once a week to one or the other of you in turn, if you...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 11 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Where are you, my dear Maria? How do you do? How are you occupied? Write me a letter by the first post and answer me all these questions. Tell me whether you see the sun rise every day? How many pages a-day you read in Don Quixot ? How far you are advanced in him? Whether you repeat a Grammar lesson every day? What else you read? How many hours a day you sew? Whether you have an opportunity of...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 26 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you have recieved the letter I wrote you from lake George, and that you have well fixed in your own mind the geography of that lake, and of the whole of my tour, so as to be able to give me a good account of it when I shall see you. On my return here, I found your letter of May 29. giving me the information it is always so pleasing to me to recieve that you are all well. Would to god I...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 7 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
This week I write to you, and if you answer my letter as soon as you recieve it, and send it to Colo. Bell at Charlottesville I shall recieve it the day before I write to you again, which will be three weeks hence: and this I shall expect you to do always so that by the correspondence of Mr. Randolph, your sister and yourself I may hear from home once a week. Mr. Randolph’s letter from...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 31 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to have a letter of yours to answer. That of Mar. 6. came to my hands on the 24th. By the bye you never acknowlege the receipt of my letters, nor tell me on what day they came to hand. I presume that by this time you have received the two dressing tables with marble tops. I give one of them to your sister and the other to you. Mine is here with the top broke in two. Mr. Randolph’s...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 9 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to have at length a letter of yours to answer, for that which you wrote to me Feb. 13. came to hand Feb. 28. I hope our correspondence will now be more regular, that you will be no more lazy, and I no more in the growls on that account. On the 27th. of February I saw blackbirds and Robinredbreasts and on the 7th. of this month I heard frogs for the first time this year. Have you...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 16 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
At length I have recieved, a letter from you. As the spell is now broke, I hope you will continue to write every three weeks. Observe I do not admit the excuse you make of not writing because your sister had not written the week before: let each write their own week without regard to what others do, or do not do.—I congratulate you my dear aunt on your new title. I hope you pay a great deal of...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 17 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
No letter yet from my dear Maria, who is so fond of writing, so punctual in her correspondencies! I enjoin as a penalty that the next be written in French.—Now for news. The fever is entirely vanished from Philadelphia. Not a single person has taken infection since the great rains about the 1st. of the month, and those who had it before are either dead or recovered. All the inhabitants who had...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 23 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I was glad to receive your letter of April 25. because I had been near two months without hearing from any of you. I hope you will now always write immediately on receiving a letter from me. Your last told me what you were not doing: that you were not reading Don Quixot, not applying to your music. I hope your next will tell me what you are doing. Tell your Uncle that the President after...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson, 5 January 179[1] (Jefferson Papers)
I did not write to you, my dear Poll, the last week, because I was really angry at recieving no letter. I have now been near nine weeks from home, and have never had a scrip of a pen, when by the regularity of the post, I might recieve your letters as frequently and as exactly as if I were at Charlottesville. I ascribed it at first to indolence, but the affection must be weak which is so long...
22To 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...
23To 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...
24To 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...
25To 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...
26To 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...
27To 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...
28To 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...
29To 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 .
30To 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....