1From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, 26 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you, my dear Cornelia, on having acquired the invaluable art of writing. how delightful to be enabled by it to converse with an absent friend, as if present. to this we are indebted for all our reading; because it must be written before we can read it. to this we are indebted for the Iliad, the Aeneid, the Columbiad, Henriade, Dunciad, and now for the most glorious poem of all,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, 23 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by the last post your letter which you desire me to answer by the succeeding one. I have accordingly set down to do it, & to find out the points in your letter to which you wish an answer. they are rather blunt & difficult to ascertain. they seem however to be these. 1. you thank me for the Terrapiniad. to this I answer, you are welcome. 2. you have pasted it in a book. I answer,...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, 3 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have owed you a letter two months, but have had nothing to write about, till last night I found in a newspaper the four lines which I now inclose you: and as you are learning to write, they will be a good lesson to convince you of the importance of minding your stops in writing. I allow you a day to find out yourself how to read these lines, so as to make them true. if you cannot do it in...
4Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia J. Randolph, 3 June 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately recieved a copy of mrs Edgeworth’s Moral ta le s, which seeming better suited to your years than to mine, I inclose you the first volume. the other two shall follow as soon as your Mama has read them. they are to make a part of your library. I have not looked into them, preferring to recieve their character from you after you shall have read them. your family of silk worms is...