1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
We rec’d. your two letters of the 22d. Feb. on the 3 inst. and that of the 2d. on the 10th. I have not been able to procure horses for George and Page yet tho’ I have taken very considerable pains myself and they as far as the hurry of the season would permit them have been looking about. There are none worth having in the neighbourhood but many pass along the road from Kentucki, for sale, and...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, [22 April 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
I am confident I could have served you considerably but I thought it better to trust to the motives upon which you depended than risk the consequences of a sudden relaxation of strict command. I scarcely look to the Nailery at all—George I am sure could not stoop to my authority & I hope and believe he pushes your interests as well as I could. The papers with the dispatches from our envoys...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not expect to have written by this post as I was much engaged in preparing some papers & in the business of the farm my Overseer being abroad on some affairs of his own, and Martha had written fully this morning. I recollect however now (7 oclock in the Evening) that tis necessary to inform you the Nailery will soon be out of iron if it does not receive a supply from you. George came...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since I returned from a journey of 3 weeks into the lower country during which from perpetual hurry and weariness I failed to write to you. Your favor of Ap. 26. I rec’d. May 5th. the Evening before I sat out; that of May 24th. yesterday; the intermediate letters passed me on the road, in the mail for Richmond, whither Martha had sent them not expecting me so soon, my absence being...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
We had no mail last week from Richmond or Fredericksburg which lost us our weekly joy of reading your letter or knowing you are well. I rec’d. your present of Fauchet’s pamphlet which I read eagerly myself and communicated to our friends: I have not yet learnt the character it bears: I believe it myself to be just in all its statements & views, and I admire greatly the moderation with which it...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be alarmed at a report Richardson will make of an occurrence at Monticello which I have had notice of only since my indisposition & have not been able to go over & learn the truth of the matter & the magnitude of the Mischief, if any has been done. Jupiter came over to me yesterday evening—he says there has never been the smallest mark about the Door or lock, of the room having been...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 31. May to Martha arrived yesterday with the pleasant news that your horses w’d. be wanted in the course of another week. Your directions shall be implicitly followed and the horses ready to depart next Saturday Morning. We rejoice here that such wild and ruinous measures as are now taking are to be no longer sanctioned by your presence. While it was possible to avert the...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
We remained at Monticello after you left us till Christmas day on which we paid a visit to George Divers with as many as we could carry; Virginia, Nancy & Ellen-we passed the Christmas with Divers, P. Carr, & Mrs. Trist; assisted at a ball in Charlottesville on the first day of the year and returned on the 4th. to Monticello where we found our children (whom I had not neglected to visit) in...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Tadeusz Kosciuszko, [14 April 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
I lost the passage to Lisbon and I afraid of this to Bordeau. and when you will go to Virginia my hopes are at an end. it may perhaps be found one going to Lisbon. do not forget that i am under your protection. and you only my resource in this Country. your Humble and Obedient Servant. RC ( NNPM ); undated; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Apr. 1798 and so recorded in SJL .
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I visited Monticello yesterday and entered your room with great anxiety but was soon much comforted by finding little change in the position of the different things which are exposed to the eye: I had got the general order of the room very much in my mind from the many visits I had paid and am satisfied from its being so little broken that no great mischief has been done. Indeed the villain...