1Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) and Mary Elizabeth Randolph (Eppes), 24 September 1817 … (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote Virginia another very long letter from poplar forest giving her an account of our journey to the Natural bridge but it arriv’d after you had left this place, I dare say you have met with nothing wilder & more savage than we did traveling on horse back through a country where there was no carriage road. we made a great many enquiries about bears, wolves, panthers, & rattle snakes &...
2Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 30 August 1817, document 4 in a group of documents on Jefferson’s … (Jefferson Papers)
I am very much oblig’d to you my Dear Virginia for your two letters & am quite outrageous at Elizabeth Harriet & Mary’s neglecting me so, however I will write to Harriet if I have time because I promis’d her faithfully to do so, Johnny does not go to day untill day after to morrow but to morrow sister Ellen & myself have to paste numbers on all of
3Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 17 August 1817, document 1 in a group of documents on Jefferson’s … (Jefferson Papers)
We are return’d from the natural bridge more anxious to see it again than we were at first, because in the first place it far surpass’d our expectations, & in the second we saw it under many disadvantages, which will be remov’d when we go again, & grandpapa has promis’d that we shall; our trip was attended with disasters & accidents from the time we set off untill we return’d again, the...
4Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 24 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We are arriv’d here fatigue’d to death as usual my dear Virginia , after the most tedious journey that ever was made, I am sure I almost died on the road from impatience. we got to Warren in the height of the rain that fell the day we left you, & were detain’d there all night, in consequence of which & the roads being in the most detestable order, we could not get to Hunters the next day as we...
5Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 25 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As sister Ellen is writing to mama my Dear Virginia , I will write also by this opportunity, to you, for I suppose you will expect a letter in return for the one you favour’d me with when you were here . we arriv’d here in safety after a journey pleasant enough, for the weather was very fine except being rather cold, mornings & evenings, but we were well wrapt up, having a cloak apiece of...