11Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your kind favor of the 1 st of last month with my usual feelings of gratitude for the many kind and friendly attentions I have experienced from you, my having obtruded M r Davèzac letter upon you for translation was inexcuseable for you mention’d in your last , from poplar Forest the little leisure you had for writing while at Monticello but that consideration never came into my...
12Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing is more grateful to my heart than assurances of friendship and remembrance from those I love and esteem. your favor therefore with the Book you may be assured was most joyfully received to hear that M r Randolph had resign’d his Military Commissi on and that the family were all well gave a Zest to the pleasure, God grant that every blessing may be extended to them, that your health and...
13Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long wish’d to address you but have been deter’d, from a fear of being troublesome, I want to know what you think of the state of our Country at present, The disasters at Washington has been a mortifying and distressing event, but when I had Reason to think that it woud be productive of good in the end, by rousing the people from the torpid State which they were beguiled into, by the...
14Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I can not deny my self the pleasure of addressing you on this joyful occasion tho I expect you will be borne down with congratulations, mine may mingle with the more important as no one can feel more than I do the happy termination of the war, and the victory we obtaind at New Orleans one of the most singular and Glorious that the Annals of our country can furnish, and will establishs our...
15Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have heard with much concern that you were very Ill, so much so, that your life was despaird of, and your being so far from your dear connections fills my mind with Sorrow least you may not be properly attended, often have I wish’d that it was in my power to administer to your comfort— but alas it is my fate to be of little servise to my friends, severely hath my immagination figur’d that...
16Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
If I had obey’d the impulse of my heart I shou’d long ere now have express’d my thanks for your favor of the 28 th of April but the fear of being troublesome to my friends often deters me from writing, altho the last Winter and Spring almost incapasatated me from making the attempt my Spirits flag’d and I retain’d only the remembrance of what had occasion’d me unhappiness, and constantly in a...
17Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In consiquence of a letter I received from my Daughter of 28 th August, in which She mentions that in the calamitous State of Orleans in consiquence of the inundation She had sent for the Boys home. and they do not wish to return to that place again which detirmines M r Tournillon to make every exertion in his power to send them to this section of the US in the Spring to finnish their...
18Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My ever esteem’d friend I return you many thanks for your favor from Bedford , be assured it gives me great pleasure that your opinion with coinsides with all I have consulted on the subject s and be assured that it is very interesting to me, as it will give me an opportunity of seeing them every summer, the very Idea has renovated my health and sperits. Francis Gilmer mention’d to his Brother...