1From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, [5 October 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
I have passed the night in so much pain that I have not closed my eyes. It is with infinite...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Having performed the last sad office of handing you into your carriage at the Pavillon de St....
3From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 13 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Just as I had sealed the inclosed I received a letter of a good length, dated Antwerp, with your...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 19 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I begin, my dear Madam, to write a little with the right hand, and you are by promise, as well as...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 29 November 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters which pass thro’ the post office either of this country or of England being all...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 24 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Yes, my dear Madam, I have received your three letters, and I am sure you must have thought...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 1 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
You conclude, Madam, from my long silence that I am gone to the other world. Nothing else would...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, [31] January [1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I went to breakfast with you according to promise, and you had gone off at 5. oclock in the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 24 April 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here, my dear friend, the last night, and in a bushel of letters presented me by way of...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 27 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Hail, dear friend of mine! for I am never so happy as when business, smoothing her magisterial...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 30 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Cease to chide me. It is hard to have been chained to a writing table, drudging over business...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 26 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. the 19., my very dear friend, is put into my hands this 26th. day of September...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 14 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Fearing, my dear Madam, that I might not be able to write to you by this occasion, I had charged...