1To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 15 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
You wrote me some time ago that you could discharge any pressing debts for me. My haveing a Daughter Married and to fix off for Kentucky after which it is hardly probable that I shall ever see her agane has put me to some unusual expence this together with my bad management Obliges me to ask your assistance. If you could let me have Seventy five or Eighty Pounds you would do me a great favor....
2[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 3 December 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 3 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL Index. Not found.]
3To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 3 December 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long wisht for an Opportunity of writing to you but since Mr. Madisons departure from this state I have been at a loss how to convey my letters untill he made me a polite and friendly offer to inclose them to him and put them into some post office. This method I shall take now as Peter is going down and can carry this. Yours of July 25th. came to my hands in about two Months from the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 27 April 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed that your little Girl is to Embark on the first of May. My constant prayers attend her. God grant that she may have a Safe and Speeddy passage to your Arms, tho I have many fears and feel sensibly for her Sufferings at parting with the Eppington family particularly Mrs. Eppes from whome she has Experienced the tenderness and fondness of a parent. I have flatter’d myself with the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 26 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I am most unlucky in my Corrispondence with you for when I expect my letters are in France they are either returned or I hear that they are still in Virginia. The Inclosed is just return’d. I suppose Mr. Madison (to whome it was derected) is gone to Congress. But as I have an Opportunity of writing to Peter I must scribble a little more to you and get him to contrive it.—I heard from Eppington...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 2 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your request I have written to you more frequently this Summer than usual but by a letter which I have lately received from Mr. Madison I find one I wrote the first of May has not yet left Virginia. I have spent five or six weeks of the last Summer at Eppington and do very much admire that amiable Ladies management of the little Girls. She pays the upmost attention to them and...
7[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 22 May 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Eppington, 22 May 1786 . Entered in SJL as received 3 May 1787. Not found.]
8To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 22 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Eppes has this morning received yours of Dec. the 11. and poor Dear Polly has been in tears, tho after much ado she is so far pacified as to wipe her eyes and set down to write to you. We have endeavoured to amuse her by every little account of what children look upon to be Luxurys, and tell her they are to be found in France, but to all She turns a deef Ear. Her avertion to going is such...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 5 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 20. came to hand some time in Feby. and releived me from much anxiety as I had had Alarming accounts of your Ill state of health, and even a report of your Death had prevail’d here. I was sorry to find your spirits ware so much depressed but hope A resignation to the devine will with the assistance of time (that Salve for every Sorrow) will restore your mind to Serennity...
10[To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Carr, 6 May 1785] (Jefferson Papers)
[ 6 May 1785 . Recorded in SJL as received 22 July 1785 “by Mr. Mazzei.” Not found.]