1Extract from Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 3 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced to take up the pen tho I have so recently address’d you, to inform you of an event that will give you pain, as it has me and indeed every one that witness’d the action, to be Brief then, I shall inform you of what I have heard, Bankhead had written a very abusive letter to M rs Jefferson Randolph , what gave rise to his doing So I cant conceive for her health has not admited of...
2Extracts from Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 7–9 February [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
… the affair of Jefferson and Bankhead is to be examin’d into by the Court to morrow Bankhead sent for his Father and Brother and I do suppose they have arrived, and M r Randolph
3Hore Browse Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, [ca. 19 October 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I have walked this morning from monticello to Peter minor ’s, grandmother ’s residence at this present moment, I started immediately after breakfast, reached this in about an hour and a half, the morning was perfectly well adapted for a jaunt of that kind, & they say that there is no situation in which a man feels more independent and noble, than that of a pedestrian of a fine, cold, bracing...
4Extract from Martha Jefferson Randolph to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to Jefferson your idea of removing the negroes to a country where they would be so much more profitable, he assented at once to the advantage of such a step, but said what I knew to be the fact that his Grandfather would never lissen listen to such a proposal it for a moment , a l though moving them in a body it would occasion little or no distress to them, not a tenth part which a...
5Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Books Recommended for Reading Law, [ca. 9 April 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
Bracton . English Brooke ’s abridgment. 4 to edn. Thomas ’s Coke Littleton 3. v. 8 vo Coke ’s 2 d 3 d and 4 th
6Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas P. Trist, 14 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of April 14. came to hand on the 8 th of May . the tragedy of L d Byron was immediately put into the hands of the family & was I believe read by every member of it. I do not know whether I gave you a Catalogue of the Law-books necessary for a course of Law-reading. having lately had occasion to make out one for Francis Eppes , I shall subjoin it to this letter, lest I should not...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Philip Trist, 13 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 18. came to hand in December. our legislature was then in session, and I postponed acknoleging it’s reciept until the proceedings of that body should enable me to say something of our University, in which I knew you took an interest. they did not act finally on it until the day of their rising, in March. they have released the debt of 180,000.D. which had been lent us to...