1From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Fitzhugh, 25 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I propose to set out on Thursday or Friday for Monticello, and being afraid to touch the great market roads at this season, I propose to go through Ravensworth . I think you told me there was a better way through that tract than the one I went. will you be so good as to drop me a line of direction how to find it? I am determined also to find some road from Songster’s to the Redhouse without...
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Taylor, Jr., 25 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The pipe of Madeira and box of Champagne have been duly recieved. the latter has been tried and is approved and I shall be glad to take eight cases more, say 480. bottles of it, to be forwarded to this place at any time before the 1st. of May till which time I shall not be returned from Monticello. only be so good as, on reciept of this, to inform me by post if I may rely on that quantity,...