1To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 11 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
This is the second letter I have written to my dear granpapa without recieving an answer but as I know the reason I will continue to write untill you have leisure to answer my letters. one of my poor little Bantams is dead and the one which I liked best although it was the old one he had got so tame that he would fly up in my lap and eat out of my hand all the children were sorry at his death....