1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Stuart having thought it best to associate a careful person at Staunton with James, they arrived here this morning with their sorrowful charge . They found here my sisters Bolling Carr and Marks. It is great consolation to us that your stay at Staunton had been so long as to render it impossible that the journey could have had any effect on the accident which happened. Anne and Jefferson...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 26 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to you for your kind attention to our lost infant. The person you sent arrived here safely with James and their charge, and will be properly rewarded . Knowing the disposition of James, I readily conceive his conduct, and would have wished that to have been properly rewarded too, were it not that it would have added new pain to the parents of the child. I write this line by...