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It has given me infinite pleasure to hear from you by the letter which you were so good as to...
My grandson Th: J. Randolph the bearer of this letter is too well known to you to need a letter...
I never felt myself under the same degree of restraint in taking up my pen to write to you—for...
Yours of the 11 th is recieved. those of Nov. 2. and Dec. 14. had been so in due time. I suppose...
Your letter of the 3 d inst. was received here the day before yesterday. It was not until today...
I am about to ask a friendly office of you which I hope will give you no other trouble than to...
I had this pleasure on the 2 d ul to & trust that letter got safe to hand. I inclosed in it a...
In my letter of Oct. 14. I gave you an account of the riot we had had at the University, and of...
I cannot too much thank you for your kind letter of the 14 th It gave me great relief from the...
Your favor of Octob.—has been duly recieved. the information which I have given you from time to...
It is always a great gratification to me to recieve one of your letters. That of Aug: 9. I found...
I am still a debtor for your letter of June 27. my health is some excuse, but not quite a...
Your kind letter which I last recieved from you (that of April 4) gave me much & real...
Your kind & most acceptable remembrance of the 4 th inst. calls for all my thanks. It gave me the...
Knowing the interest you take in the progress of our University, I will now undertake to give you...
I have already had the pleasure of acknowleging & thanking you for your gratifying favor of the 8...
The vol s of Hall arrived safe. I am much pleased that they gave the pleasure which I hoped, to...
I returned the 1 st vol. of Hall by a mail of a week ago and by this shall return the 2 d we have...
I send you the three letters inclosed merely because they are the complement of those I sent in...
I have abstained from acknowleging your favor of the 9 th ult o that I might not add to your...
I recieve your letter of the 2 d while La Fayette is with us. our county has recieved him as...
I had this pleasure on the 3 d ult o I do not write this in order to add to the burthen of...
Knowing as I do, how every letter adds to the burthen which every mail you I have postponed...
I have the pleasure of informing you of my arrival here, & thus having now approached so near to...
The date of this letter will shew that I have been detained here much longer than I had...
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 10 th instant. as soon as the vote of invitation to M. de...
I did not intend to have troubled you again so soon when last I had the pleasure of writing to...
Your most agreeable favor of the 10 th was recieved here two days ago. You say nothing of your...
Your favor of Mar. 29. is duly recieved, and I learn from it with great gratification that we are...
The last letter which I have had the pleasure of writing to you, was of the date of Octob: 9. in...
Your kind favor of the 8 th ult o was waiting for me here, & I received & read it with those...
Your favor of July 28. from Avon came to hand on the 10 th of August and I have delayed answering...
I am thus far on my way to the land which I mentioned to you in a former letter; & having stopped...
If I could be induced by any means to attaching any value to any prophecy of mine, it would be...
From your letter of prophecies I too have caught the spirit of prophecy: for who can withold...
Contrary to all precedent I have by me a letter from you which has remained for two months...
I have duly recieved your favor of the 17 th with it’s kind enquiries as to the state in which my...
Very soon after the departure of my last letter, I learned through the newspapers, the accident...
Since my return from my Canada expedition I have had the very sincere & great Pleasure of...
I have waited for a frost to announce to me your return to winter quarters; and altho’ we have as...
It has been a long time since I have had this pleasure. It was on the 5 th of Dec r in...
I return you a thousand thanks for your kind & friendly letter of the 24 th ult o . The details...
Your welcome favor of the 12 th came to hand two days ago. I was just returned from Poplar Forest...
If I knew any other way less troublesome to you, of hearing of you & the state of your health, I...
I could hardly have thought it possible that a letter from you could have remained in my hands...
I owe you a letter for your favor of June 29. which was recieved in due time, and there being no...
I had the pleasure of thanking you in part in my letter of May 2. for your most invaluable favor...
I had the very sincere pleasure of recieving some days ago your kind favor of the 13 th ul to...
Your favor of Mar. 27. is recieved, and my grandaughter Ellen has undertaken to copy the...
It has been a long time indeed since I have had the pleasure of hearing from you, or of your...