1Extract from Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 3 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced to take up the pen tho I have so recently address’d you, to inform you of an event that will give you pain, as it has me and indeed every one that witness’d the action, to be Brief then, I shall inform you of what I have heard, Bankhead had written a very abusive letter to M rs Jefferson Randolph , what gave rise to his doing So I cant conceive for her health has not admited of...