1To Thomas Jefferson from Gertrude J. Senf, 3 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
You will before the receit of this have heard of my Great, and irreparable Loss by the Death of your Old friend, my dear Husband Colo. Ch. Senf but the cause of it will be unknowed to You till the perusal of the inclosed Lettre with Speaking the feelings of my Sorrowfull, and wounded heart, and that of a Republican, where they think to have a right, and to Lett it be know’d were their friend’s...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Gertrude J. Senf, 11 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Excused if trouble You with an other Letter, but I feel to Sensible my Great loss, than that I can remain quired against them who has occasioned all my unhappiness; Last year a party work begun here against my Husband with Colo. Mentges* who was Send by the Gen as an Aid, or to be Arsenal keeper, he was in correspondence with the Clerk’s, of Your Minister’s, of the different Department’s, a...