1From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have heard nothing of you since mr Eppes’s letter dated the day sennight after I left home. the Milton mail will be here tomorrow morning when I shall hope to recieve something. in the mean time this letter must go hence this evening. I trust it will still find you at Monticello, and that possibly mr Eppes may have concluded to take a journey to Bedford & still farther prolonged your stay. I...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 28 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An immense accumulation of business, my dear Maria, has prevented my writing to you since my arrival at this place. but it has not prevented my having you in my mind daily & hourly, and feeling much anxiety to hear from you, & to know that mr Eppes & yourself are in good health. I am in hopes you will not stay longer than harvest where you are, as the unhealthy season advances rapidly after...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 29 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
This evening ought to have brought in the Western mail, but it is not arrived. consequently we hear nothing from our neighborhood. I rejoice that this is the last time our Milton mail will be embarrassed with that from New Orleans; the rapidity of which occasioned our letters often to be left in the post-offices. it now returns to it’s former establishment of twice a week, so that we may hear...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 24 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
According to contract , immediately on the reciept of mr Eppes’s letter of the 12th . I wrote him mine of the 17th. and having this moment recieved yours of June 18. I hasten to reply to that also. I am very anxious you should hasten your departure for Monticello, but go a snail’s pace when you set out. I shall certainly be with you the last week of July or first week of August. I have a...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 7 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the fourth day of my journey without accident. on the day and day after my arrival I was much indisposed with a general soreness all over, a ringing in the head & deafness. it is wearing off slowly, and was probably produced by travelling very early two mornings in fog. I have desired mr Jefferson to furnish you with whatever you may call for, on my account; and I insist on...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 3 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The account of your illness my dearest Maria was known to me only this morning. nothing but impossibilities prevent my instant departure to join you. but the impossibility of Congress proceeding a single step in my absence presents an insuperable bar. Mr. Eppes goes off, and I hope will find you in a convalescent state. next to the desire that it may be so, is that of being speedily informed...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you, my dearest Maria, the paper which you lent me for mr Page, and which he has returned some days since. I have prevailed on Doctr. Priestly to undertake the work of which this is only the syllabus or plan. he says he can accomplish it in the course of a year. but in truth his health is so much impaired, and his body become so feeble, that there is reason to fear he will not...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
A thousand joys to you, my dear Maria, on the happy accession to your family . a letter from our dear Martha by last post gave me the happy news that your crisis was happily over and all well. I had supposed that if you were a little later than your calculation, and the rising of Congress as early as we expected, that we might have been with you at the moment when it would have been so...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 14 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time yours & mr Eppes’s letters of Nov. 6. and his of Nov. 26 . this last informed me you would stay at Eppington 2. or 3. weeks. having had occasion to write during that time to mr F. Eppes, without knowing at the moment that you were there, you would of course know I was well. this with the unceasing press of business has prevented my writing to you. presuming this will...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 25 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
A promise made to a friend some years ago, but executed only lately, has placed my religious creed on paper. I have thought it just that my family, by possessing this, should be enabled to estimate the libels published against me on this, as on every other possible subject. I have written to Philadelphia for Dr. Priestley’s history of the corruptions of Christianity , which I will send you, &...