1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 27 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
This morning we received your letters of the 26. Jan. and 18th. Feb. Your plan of leasing your lands is exactly what I would wish to adopt with Edgehill after reserving a farm of 400 acres for myself and what I should put in execution immediately if I could get tenants. Do not you offer yours on very low terms? I have had very lately an application for a farm in the S.E. angle of my tract...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Since we wrote last Martha and myself have determined to settle immediately on our farm. We have concluded that the advantage of constant employment in interesting tho’ trivial affairs will more than ballance the many inconveniences we must put up with. On her account alone those inconveniences deserve regard, and she is so certain that they cannot affect her happiness as to be impatient to...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho the letter carrier between Charlottesville and Richmond is continued in his employment, the conveyance is extremely irregular. He has no fixed day of departure from his own habitation which is about 15 miles from Charlotteslle. but sets out as it suits him on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, and keeps the letters in his hands frequently 3 days after his return. When the Weather is bad he...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I prepare now to give you some reasons according to promise for my preference of the plan of cultivation I transmitted you 3 weeks since to the one you did me the honor to consult me on. The system of small fields in my plan, is nothing more than an extension of method beyond what you thought requisite in farming. The crops of this rotation, alltho of small value comparatively, are yet worth a...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 9 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I trouble you with two other letters for the British packet which I beg the favor of you to have included in the first mail for England. We have no news from home to send you but of the Orchard in which the hares have lately done much damage.—While writing I am informed that Gilmer is much better and am pleased that I have it in my power to tell you of his illness and recovery at the same...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A report of your having resigned your office is in circulation here and receives great credit from us mostly perhaps because we wish to have it so but considerably too from our not having received letters as usual by the two last posts: we conclude that the hurry of preparing for your departure and the expectation of seeing us soon have prevented your writing. We are strongly impressed with...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday yours of the 8. inst: containing Mr. Le Roys letter of the 26. Nov. for the procurement and communication of which I return you many thanks. It relieved me from an apprehension I had begun to entertain that the protested bill of Rosses might be in considerable part swallowed up by an open Accompt, in which case I might have suffered and an important credit, the price of...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The anxiety we allways feel in your absence has become quite painfull from our having failed every post since your departure, to recieve tidings of you. We impute it to obstructions in the communication, and trust that we shall enjoy the pleasure of knowing that you are well, next tuesday. I have just received a melancholy summons to attend my Father, who, I am much afraid, from what I learn,...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 3 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to begin immediately the course of observations you proposed in your last letter . I have not a thermometer even, at present, but shall provide myself directly with one, and as soon as possible with a Barometer. The addition of the Meteorological phaenomena, observations with respect to the migration of birds, and the changes in plants ought to render it a...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 5 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Thompson the gentleman whom I mentioned last summer to you as a Candidate for a Consulship has applied to me again on the same subject by a letter which I inclose to you now. I will not repeat my desire that my representation may not have the least weight, as I know that it ought not, and of course am fully convinced that it will not. However as in this case perhaps the inquiry into the...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of June 23. arrived at Monticello on the 4. of July and made us happy by mentioning the beneficial effects of your journey. We take the first opportunity to inform you that we are in good health ourselves. In a late letter you desire us to let you know our success with the seeds you sent from Philadelphia. The Sugar maple has failed entirely, a few plants only having appeared which...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter containing the seeds of the Acacia came safe to Monticello. Patsy and Miss Jane, who have become quite enthusiastic in gardening and Botany, are much pleased with the charge and promise themselves the satisfaction of presenting you the Shrub reared by their hands, in Septr. The employment will be doubly agreeable to them and myself as there is a prospect of your enjoying its...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you most heartily for the information your last letter contained and beg you to favor me with communications concerning the French whenever you have leisure as we may expect the grossest misrepresentations in the papers and I feel myself warmly interested in their affairs. Their late misfortunes have excited a general sorrow in this part of the country: all persons with whom I have...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 24 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your letter to Mr. Randolph Jefferson a Mr. James Kinsolving applied to Clarkson on the 16: inst: for Dinah and her children. Their value was fixed by Colo. Lewis and Colo. Bell, 139:17.6 for which sum he has given his bonds on the terms of your sale in Bedford. He is a very substantial planter himself: one John Burnley a man allso in very good circumstances is joined with...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of the last week missed the usual conveyance by the untimely departure of the post rider. I sent it to Charlottesville as customary the day before the ordinary post-day, but it was too late for the mail. In it I had given you an account of your loss by the frost at Poplar-forest which Clarke rendered me by letter of 10. inst. He says that you will have less Tobacco for market by one...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
We are unhappy at not being able to transmit you as regular accounts from Monticello as you are desirous of having. The discontinuance of the post throws us entirely on the Waggons for the conveyance of our letters, a method not only irregular but extremely uncertain. It is particularly painful to us to be frequently in doubt from the same cause about the state of your health as there is...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 25 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In your last letter you mention nothing of your trip to Virginia, which makes us fear that it will take place later than you expected some time ago. Be good enough to inform us in your next if we may still expect the pleasure of seeing you in July. By Freneau’s paper of the 14: we learn that the National Assembly has authorized hostilities against the King of Hungary: we will thank you to give...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 23 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Martha, Maria and myself have just returned today from a visit to your Sister Mrs. Carr. The journey to Eppington has been postponed for a short time, partly from necessity, having no horses of our own as yet, but principally from our unwillingness to part so soon with little Maria. It should not have been delayed a moment, had we not been convinced that you would not have hesitated to gratify...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We find by your letters not coming as usual that the Northern mail has been delayed by the Snow. Monticello and the country adjacent were covered with it to the depth of 12 inches at least and yet today not a particle is to be seen the Weather has been so uncommonly warm. The farmers say, it has been of great service to the Wheat which really suffered from drought in the middle of Winter. For...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 27 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that a great part of your young trees from Long-island is alive notwithstanding the hardships they underwent during the Winter. The apple, peach, Nectarine and plumb trees, the poplars and balsam of Peru, the filberd and cranberry plants with all the roses except the moss rose are evidently reviving. We are yet in doubt concerning the Venet. Sumach, and allmost despair...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 2 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Polly has allready informed you of the addition of a little Grand Daughter to your family and of its unexpected arrival; which was pleasing to us as it was not in the least premature. Mrs. Fleming had been kind enough to offer her assistance to Patsy during her confinement which we expected would have commenced about the end of February, and I had gone down to accompany her up. But Mrs....
22To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We received your favors of June 24. and 30. on the 9. inst. at night. We are extremely happy to learn that Maria has got well over the mumps. I send you now the scheme of cultivation which I formed last year and am adopting at Edgehill. An indisposition, and the preparation for a journey to Richmond prevent my accompanying it with any comment at present. You will observe that it differs from...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 4 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found it more convenient to send you a bill for the money you were so kind as to pay for me, than a Hhd. of Tobacco; allmost every Hhd. of mine, having been considerably damaged in their passage down the river, by heavy rains. Yours I am much afraid has allso been injured. I feel myself disposed to continue your debtor rather than make such an ordinary return as my thanks for this...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 17 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We arrived here yesterday Evening after a tedious and disagreeable journey thro’ the deepest snow within the memory of persons of my age. In the Sixty miles that we have advanced to the Northward the Snow has increased from a small quantity in the shade of hills and buildings to a general cover of ten or twelve Inches: if the progression continues what must it be about philadelphia? The whole...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We were rendered happy last night by the receipt of a packet containing all your letters and Pollies from the 20th. of November. Since the 28th. of that month on which day we left Monticello they have been accumulating there: they were not sent after us because it was uncertain where we were, and our constant intention of returning in a few days, defeated continually by the kindness of our...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 1 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Upon examining the Set of Buffon which you gave me in consequence of your kind offer to endeavor to procure in Paris the deficient volumes I find that the 15. des Oiseaux and the same of the Histoire [ On verso: ] Diary. Sept. 28. M.O. Th. 46. Large White frost. f. E. 56. f. 29. M. 51. f. E. 30.
27To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Patsy, the little girl Polly and myself have been in good health since you heard last from us. Your silence for the two last weeks, makes us fear that you are not so fortunate. Patsy had just begun to visit the public room, but a very deep snow which fell yesterday and today obliges her to return to her Chamber. During the whole of her confinement, she has scarcely felt the smallest...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We received two packets from you on the 20. inst. one of July 21. and another of Aug: 11. The former thro’ the negligence of the post-master somewhere, was sent to Kentucké. Some accident of this kind has happened probably to your last, as it did not come to Charlottesville in the mail. Your friend Mr. Madison has spent several days in our neighbourhood: he did us the honor of a visit on...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 8 February 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Patsy continues in very good health and would have written to you herself had I not prevented her from the fear of her being fatigued. The little one is perfectly well and increases in size very fast. We are desirous that you should honor her and ourselves by confering a name on her and accordingly have deferred the christening till we can hear from you. Polly is very well and prepares to give...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just been with Mr. Browns Clerks to make enquiry concerning the package of the Servants Cloaths which you sent last fall. He is not in town himself: from them I can learn nothing more than I have hitherto received. They do not remember that it came to them. Your furniture &c. is safely deposited in a lumber-house at Rockets. Mr. Browns Clerks inform me that you have ordered a part of it...
31To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 8 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We returned to Monticello on the evening of the sixth inst. Our journey has only increased our relish for retirement and our fondness for this charming spot which we quit allways with the greatest reluctance. Patsy and the children are well. We are unhappy at Maria’s indisposition but put much confidence in the strength of her constitution. Your desire respecting a horse shall be particularly...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote last a parcel of bonds to the amount of 560 £ have been deposited with me for you by Bowling Clarke. Those taken by Mr. Hylton for Elkhill have not yet come into my hands: according to your desire I should have brought them up with me but I left Richmond with an expectation of returning in a day or two, which did not happen. We are apprehensive of great loss in our grain from the...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have set George and his company to work in the canal according to your desire: Jupiter is with them and is constantly employed in blowing the rock at the upper end which it was their first business to lay bare for him. Part of the timber intended for the house has been brought up, and the remainder will be in place before the middle of next month. The two houses for the servants I am sorry...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 13 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will observe by the abstract of my diary that we have had an uncommon proportion of rainy weather this spring; our fields of Wheat and Rye from this will give a smaller and a meaner product than we have hitherto expected from them. The plants, where they were tall and stood close, have “lodged” as the farmers term it and of course cannot perfect the grain; where this has not happened many...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely sorry it is not in my power to forward to you Andersons account of the Hebrides as I promised: it was lent by Mr. Forster to a friend who mislaid it and as yet it has been searched for in vain. You will probably meet with it at Mr. Dobsons Bookseller 2d Str. Philadelphia. The bargain with my Father will be droped alltogether I believe as I have been with him several times in...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 19. ult: with Pollies of the same date only reached us last night. My letters I am convinced must not unfrequently be as slow in geting to you: how this happens, sometimes, I have just discovered, and will take care to prevent it from that cause in future. Our postmaster closes the mail for Richmond at no certain hour, alltho, he has given out, that it will be dispatched allways...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Randolph arrived yesterday with the packet for Mr. Madison which I delivered immediately to a trusty messenger, charging him to put it into no hands, but those of Mr. Madison himself. The messenger was directed to go first to Colo. Monroes and afterwards to Wilson Nicolases, as I knew Mr. Madison was in the county but knew not which of these places he was at. My Brother, who came yesterday...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 August [1791] (Jefferson Papers)
The Satisfaction my Fathers Success gives me, makes me communicate it to you. Colo. Harvey lies dangerously ill. I am Dear Sir your affectionate friend & devoted Servant RC (Thomas A. Lingenfelter, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1994); partially dated; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State Philadelphia”; stamped and postmarked; endorsed by TJ as received 27 Aug. 1791 and so recorded in...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 28 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter is borne by Serjeant Sydnor whom I must request you will aid in his suit to the Secretary of War for advancement in the army. His fondness for a military life induced him to accept of a post far inferior to what his character and acquirements intitled him. By giving him any assistance in your power to retrieve his loss you will much oblige Sir your most sincere friend & hble Servt....
40To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You are surprized no doubt that the letters which came to Charlottesville for you in the last mail of September, did not return to Richmond by the same post to be forwarded to Philada. I am much afraid that the detention may have caused you some trouble. The packet was sent up to Monto. improperly, by the postmaster as he must have been acquainted with your departure: it arrived when I was...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 7 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have inclosed and addressed to you today the papers you left with Patsy except the pamphlet (No. 21. The political state of Europe: July.) which I take the liberty to keep till the next post that I may have the satisfaction of reading it: I did not see these papers till today. I have inclosed allso three letters, one found among the papers mentioned, one on the table in the dining room, and...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I can give you no account of the objects of our mutual affection later than the 15. of this month when I left every thing well at Monticello. I came down principally to give my vote in the County of Henrico to my Father who is candidate for a place vacant in the Senate of Virginia. I had made a disagreeable mistake with respect to the day of the election and should have returned immediately if...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 30 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The news of my fathers death must have reached you before this thro’ the ordinary channels. Having been detained a day or two longer at Monticello than I expected when I wrote to you I did not arrive time enough to have any hand in the drawing of his will which was done by Colo. Harvie alone. As might have been expected from him, (the beggary of the younger children being likely to be more...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 4 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry it is not in my power to give you such an estimate of the probable product of your harvest this year as might be satisfactory. The subject must appear of more importance now as you have some thoughts of retiring from public life, and the hope of doing you a trifling service even, will allways be the most powerfull motive in my mind. However vague the expression, it may perhaps give...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 18 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to make a request which nothing should induce me to make, were I not convinced that it could not occasion any considerable inconvenience or trouble to you. In consequence of some pecuniary transactions with Mr. Archibald C. Randolph I am applied to for a bill on Philadelphia of forty Dollars and eighty three Cents to discharge a debt of his to Mr. Benjamin S. Barton of that...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 20 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter by the post before last has not yet reached Monto. and consequently we did not know of your having changed your resolution to retire in the spring till last week. The information throws a gloom over our prospects of happiness this summer and of course gives no joy at Monto. but your determination was received with much applause by the county at large where the interest in your fame...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 9 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the 26. of October I have not passed 6 successive days at Monticello and consequently have not paid that attention to the work you requested me to direct, which I could have wished. It is by no means so forward as it might have been. The Window frames which you ordered were prepared immediately. A quantity of Stone which appears to me to be about ⅔ of what will be required has been...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I know your time is allready so completely taken up, with important public concerns, that you are obliged to neglect your own private matters, allmost totally, I cannot refrain from asking a small part of it, for an affair of very considerable consequence, to myself and my family. I have mentioned to you before, tho perhaps I never related the particulars, that the land in Henrico ,...