1From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 3 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The account of your illness my dearest Maria was known to me only this morning. nothing but impossibilities prevent my instant departure to join you. but the impossibility of Congress proceeding a single step in my absence presents an insuperable bar. Mr. Eppes goes off, and I hope will find you in a convalescent state. next to the desire that it may be so, is that of being speedily informed...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
A thousand joys to you, my dear Maria, on the happy accession to your family . a letter from our dear Martha by last post gave me the happy news that your crisis was happily over and all well. I had supposed that if you were a little later than your calculation, and the rising of Congress as early as we expected, that we might have been with you at the moment when it would have been so...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 29 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
This evening ought to have brought in the Western mail, but it is not arrived. consequently we hear nothing from our neighborhood. I rejoice that this is the last time our Milton mail will be embarrassed with that from New Orleans; the rapidity of which occasioned our letters often to be left in the post-offices. it now returns to it’s former establishment of twice a week, so that we may hear...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you, my dearest Maria, the paper which you lent me for mr Page, and which he has returned some days since. I have prevailed on Doctr. Priestly to undertake the work of which this is only the syllabus or plan. he says he can accomplish it in the course of a year. but in truth his health is so much impaired, and his body become so feeble, that there is reason to fear he will not...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 27 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is rare, my ever dear Maria, during a session of Congress, that I can get time to write any thing but letters of business: and this, tho’ a day of rest to others, is not at all so to me. we are all well here, and hope the post of this evening will bring us information of the health of all at Edgehill and particularly that Martha and the new bantling are both well: and that her example gives...