1Mary Blair Andrews to Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Favor Sir of the 15 th Ul t has follow’d me to this place—most gratefully do I feel my Obligation to you, for the Trouble you have taken on my Behalf My Father ’s Estate in Albemarle was the only part of his property that he attempted to gaurd for the use of his own offspring, of which I am unhappily sole Survivor—the possibility of my being so, never occur’d to him, for he left two...