22801From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 19 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th was recieved the day before yesterday, and as the season for engrafting is passing rapidly by I will not detain the apple-cuttings for mr Gray, until I may have other matter for writing a big letter to you. I send a dozen cuttings, as much as a letter can protect, by our 1 st mail, and wish they may retain their vitality until they reach him. they are called the...
22802From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter has been written near a fortnight and has laid by me awaiting a pacotille which your Mama was making up of some things omitted to be sent to you with those so unfortunately lost. that is now made up and will be immediately forwarded to Richmond to the care of Col o Peyton. Privately owned.
22803From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
This is our postday, and I have been so engaged that the hour of dinner & company are arriving before I could begin a letter to you. I shall therefore merely say we are all well, & I hope we shall hear to-night that all are well at Edgehill. tell your Mama, while you kiss her for me, that Rigden has returned & delivered me her watch neatly done, which will be sent by your papa. I send you...
22804Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 14 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been, my dear Ellen, without subject for a letter to you until one has been furnished by my the sale of my tobacco. in this you also will feel somewhat of interest, inasmuch as it enables me to replenish your moyens de jouissance , by remitting to mr Barnes 100.D. for you. I do this by the present mail , and have chosen his cover because I thought it would go safer in that way; and...
22805From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 25 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s & your Mama’s letters of the 20th. are recieved. tell her I will take care of her accounts with mrs Madison. I thank you for your care of my wines. I will endeavor to send bottles for the two doubtful casks into which you have drawn a part. I put a letter from Jefferson to your Mama into your Papa’s newspaper packet which went by the stage yesterday. yours to him shall be immediately...
22806From John Adams to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
You cannot imagin how much pleasure I have received from your kind letter of the 15th. It is perfectly beautiful, and I have given it to my Grand Daughters as a model of literary composition.— Your account of your G. F. activity and energey almost excites my envy, who have neither a manageable horse, nor capacity to mount him, if I had one. It is delightful to me to see and hear so many proofs...
22807James Madison to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 8 April 1830 (Madison Papers)
Your acceptable favor of Mar. 20 came duly to hand, & with it, the anticipated review of the published correspondence of your Grandfather. The Author of the review has given evidence not only of a candid mind rescued from preconceived error, but of a critical judgment & an accomplished pen. The light which pierced the film over his eyes can not fail to produce a like revolution in other minds...
22808From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 14 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 13. to mr Coolidge, I gave an account of the riot we had had at the University, and of it’s termination. you will both of course be under anxiety till you know how it has gone off?—with the best effects in the world. having let it be understood, from the beginning, that we wished to trust very much to the discretion of the Students themselves for their own government. with...
22809From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter was safely delivered to miss Forrest who was here yesterday well. I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. it is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrasments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions. we have had such a week of hot weather as has never probably been known before in this country. my thermometer has been as follows Monday...
22810From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with deep concern, my dearest Ellen, that the family has been unwell generally, that you have been ill, and your Mama indisposed. Anne informs me you are getting better but does not say whether your Mama is so also. yet, in the absence of your Papa, her health is doubly important because her care is necessary for you all. I hope this will find you all recovered. your friends here are...
22811From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 12 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Apr. 1. came to hand only yesterday. I presume you sent it a little too late for the post and that it has lain a week at Milton. you have guessed rightly both as to the pen and the Etc. I am entirely recovered from my head-ach. Congress have come to a resolution to adjourn on the 25th. of this month. I suppose I shall get away some time in the first week in May. what particular...
22812From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10th. did not get here till the 19th. and this is the first post-day since that for answering it. I am afraid that sending your letters a few minutes too late, only arrive at Milton after the departure of the post & lie there a week. I am very doubtful that something like this must have happened with the letters of the 16th. if any were then written, as they ought to have...
22813From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
To answer the question in your letter of the 4th. I must observe that neither the number of the fine arts, nor the particular arts entitled to that appellation have been fixed by general consent. many reckon but five Painting, sculpture, architecture, music & poetry. to these some have added Oratory, including, within that, Rhetoric which is the art of style & composition. others again, add...
22814From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 23 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am several letters in your debt, but I am in hopes that age and occupation will privilege me against your counting letter for letter rigorously with me. the loss of your geraniums shall be replaced. I have this day planted a sprig in a small & very portable pot of earth. you give a bad account of the patriotism of the ladies of Williamsburg who are not disposed to submit to the small...
22815From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 12 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you some poetry, but am not sure whether I may not have sent you the same pieces before. my letters to your Mama will have informed you of my having been indisposed with a swelled face. it rose, suppurated, and has left me with a hard swelling still on the jawbone, which however I am in hopes will go down. it still confines me to the house for fear cold should affect it. otherwise I am...
22816Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 16 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I confess, my dearest Ellen , you have reason to think I have too long neglected the acknolegement of your letter of Dec. 12. which was 10 days on it’s passage. but negligence has not been the cause of this tardy answer. I have waited in daily expectation of remitting you at the same time the money for the busts of the President and of mr Madison , which I will gladly take. the fact is that...
22817From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 8 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe it is true that you have written me 2. letters to my one to you. whether this proceeds from your having more industry or less to do than myself I will not say. one thing however I will say that I most sincerely wish to be with you all, and settle the point vivâ voce (if you do not understand these two Latin words, you must lay Jefferson’s Latin under contribution that you may know...
22818From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 20 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to you stated the plants which had been sent, & I was in hopes, after you had been enabled to distinguish them, you would have informed me of their respective conditions. but no post has arrived for this week from Milton & consequently no letter from you. in about three weeks I hope to be with you, and then we shall properly be devoted to the garden. what has become of mrs...
22819From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 3 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As you insist I shall write you one more letter before my departure this is to inform you that altho’ I have not entirely abandoned the hope of setting out on the 5th. yet I think it more probable I shall be detained to the 6th. so that if I do not catch you in bed on Sunday, expect it on Monday. Your’s affectionately MHi : Coolidge Collection.
22820From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 30 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved two letters from you since I left Monticello. by Davy I sent you a pair of Bantam fowls; quite young: so that I am in hopes you will now be enabled to raise some. I propose on their subject a question of natural history for your enquiry: that is whether this is the Gallina Adrianica, or Adria, the Adriatick cock of Aristotle? for this you must examine Buffon &c. mr Burwell...
22821From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 29 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of the 25th. and have also to acknolege that of the 18th. you ask whether the pen which is not to wear out is made of glass? No.—guess again. I am glad to hear you expect a family of Bantams. take good care of them. is it not best to put the hen into a tobacco stick coop, in & round which the chickens will always stay. the properest way to make an et-caetera is thus...
22822From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 29 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe I have recieved no letter from you since I came from Monticello, but perhaps there is one on the road for me. hope is so much pleasanter than despair, that I always prefer looking into futurity through her glass. I send you some poetical gleanings. our newspapers have been rather barren in that ware for some time past. whether the muses have been taking a nap, or our news writers...
22823Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 7 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Money, my dearest Ellen , is very hard to get in these times. no better proof of it than that it was not in my power till this day to remit you the inclosed sum of 50.D. which is in notes of the District where you are. it is to pay for the busts of mess rs Madison and Monroe , & for their package, the balance for yourself for your commission on the transaction, or for your menus plaisirs if so...
22824From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of the 11th. & rejoice to hear that all are well with you. I inclose a letter from Dr. Wistar the perusal of which will be agreeable to your Papa & Mama as it respects Jefferson; & to your Papa what relates to the Mammoth, return it to me. I am glad to hear that the sweet scented grass got safe, altho’ the pot did not. the sooner you put it into a larger box the...
22825From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 8 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you a letter, and very fortunately have one to inclose from an acquaintance which you must consider as a paiment in full of my debt. for having nothing to write about I should otherwise have been puzzled to make paiment, had it not been for this god-send. I could tell you we are all well. but that is a thing of course. I could tell you it is now very cold, but the air of the morning has...
22826From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 20 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of the 15th. and I shall take care to have your book bound. the letter to Jefferson went on direct. I have not heard from him for some time, but Doctr. Rush in a letter just recieved says ‘your grandson has not called upon me as often as I expected, but I hear with great pleasure that he is absorbed & delighted with his Anatomical & other studies.’ I have been...
22827Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 22 February [1822] (abstract) (Jefferson Papers)
wrote to Ellen to get a print from of Col o Monroe . FC ( Edward Churchill, Haddonfield, N.J., 1991 ); abstract in TJ’s hand beneath endorsement of PoC of TJ to Randolph (Coolidge), 7 Feb. 1822 ; on recto of a reused address cover from Thomas Appleton to TJ; partially dated; one or more words trimmed or illegible.
22828Thomas Jefferson to Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 26 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The situation in which I left your dear Mama makes me very anxious to hear of her during my stay here. uncertain whether this may not find her in bed, I address it to you to pray you to write me a line letting me know how she is. if it is done, on the reciept of this letter and put immediately into the post office of Charlottesville , it will still find me here. direct to me at Poplar Forest...
22829From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 4 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heretofore known that the ability of the University to meet the necessary expences of a bell and clock, depended on the remission by Congress, of the duties on marble bases and capitels used in our buildings, a sum of nearly 3000,D. the remission is granted, and I am now authorised to close with mr Willard for the undertaking of the clock, as proposed in your letter of Aug. 25. I must...
22830From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 12 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The arrival of our Professors from abroad has at length enabled us to get our University into operation. their failure to arrive by the day we had announced for it’s commencementt lost us for a while many students, who supposing, with most of us, from the length of time they had been out, that they must have perished, engaged themselves elsewhere. we began on the 7 th of March with between 30....
22831From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 18 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson gives this Writing desk to Joseph Coolidge jun r as a Memorial of affection. it was made from a drawing of his own, by Ben Randall, cabinet maker of Philadelphia, with whom he first lodged on his arrival in that city in May 1776. and is the identical one on which he wrote the Declaration of Independance, Politics, as well as Religion, has it’s superstitions. these, gaining...
22832From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 24 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I should not have delayed a single day the answer to your interesting and acceptable letter of the 13 th inst. but that it found me suffering severely under an imposthume formed under the jaw, and closing it so effectually as to render the introduction of sustenance into the mouth impossible, but in a fluid form, and that latterly sucked thro’ a tube. after 2. or 3. weeks of sufferance, and a...
22833From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A clock is wanting for the Rotunda of the University; the size and strength of it’s works must be accomodated to two data. 1. the bell weighs 400. ℔ and is to be heard . with certainty 1½ miles 2. the dial-plate is to be about 6 . feet 3. I. diameter. it is to be fixed in the tympanum of the Pediment of the Portico. The triangle of this tympanum has not been measured exactly yet, therefore we...
22834From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 13 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is so long since I ought to have written to you that I am ashamed to quote your last date. the information particularly which you were so kind as to obtain and furnish me, as to the cost of a college clock should have been answered. but finding the price you mentioned far beyond our expectation and funds, I took time to have other enquiries made. these however did not result in bringing the...
22835From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 15 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the two last books you have been so kind as to send me. I have derived a great deal of information from Russel for the use of our University. I had only a borrowed copy, and had been disappointed in getting one from England: Bosworth is a treasure of Anglo-Saxon learning. there is much in him valuable, and new to me. he treads indeed in the footsteps of D r Hickes and...
22836From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 22 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 27. came to hand in due time; that of the 15 th inst. was recieved yesterday. I have this day directed our Proctor to have 250.D. immediately remitted to yourself for mr Willard, to hold 250.D. more ready to be called for at his convenience, & to count on paying the whole balance at the final conclusion. whenever therefore mr Willard’s convenience may make it acceptable to...
22837From James Madison to Joseph Coolidge Jr., 8 June 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your favour of May 28. with the printed & manuscript papers of Mr. Grund. The communication, with whatever other documents interesting to him may come to hand will be laid before the Visitors of the University at their meeting on the 10th. of July and will bring him into consideration along with the other men of Science disposed to fill the chair vacated by Mr. Key. The...
22838James Madison to Joseph Coolidge, Jr., 31 January 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received the copy of the Annual Report on the Harvard University: and I make my acknoledgements for the politeness to which I am indebted, with the more pleasure, as it offers an occasion for repeating to Mrs. Coolidge & yourself the regards & good wishes in which Mrs. Madison cordially joines me. FC (DLC) .
22839Thomas Jefferson to William Coolidge, 24 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 9 th has been duly recieved. I am able to give but little information on the subject of Madder. I know it has been cultivated, ever since I can remember, in this state for houshold use; and before the revolution it was cultivated on a large scale by some. Col o Harrison , a member of the 1 st Congress , was one of these and told me he did not believe it could be cultivated...
22840From John Quincy Adams to Henry Coolman, 18 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
Will Mr Coleman do Mr and Mrs Adams the favour of coming and dining with them, this day at five O’Clock—of if engaged this day, to-morrow? NNGL .
22841From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Coombe, 22 August 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): American Philosophical Society I rejoiced to hear of your safe Arrival and happy Meeting with your Friends. I hope every other Circumstance there will prove agreable [to?] you, if you chuse to continue at Philadelphia. [The?] Letter you intended me by Loxley did not come, so I shall expect that Pleasure. Things remain here much in the State you left them. Mrs....
22842From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Coombe, 6 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (letterbook draft): Library of Congress I receiv’d a few welcome Lines from you acquainting me with your safe Arrival at Philada. and promising me a long Letter, which I suppose has miscarried. So I know nothing of your Reception and Engagements, your Views, Pursuits or Studies, or what would please you best from hence, new Poetry or new Sermons; for the better Chance therefore of hitting...
22843From Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Coombe, Jr., 22 July 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library; draft: American Philosophical Society I received with great Pleasure you[rs of] May 15. as it inform’d me of your Hea[lth, and Hap]piness. I thank you for your Sermons [which I] read with Satisfaction: I am glad that [of my good] Bishop’s pleas’d you. I enclose a Speech [of his,] on the same Subject. It is deem’d here a [Master-piece] of Eloquence. I send also...
22844Thomas Coombe, Jr., to His Father, 8 October 1770: extract (Franklin Papers)
Extract of ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania I dined with Dr. Franklin the Day before yesterday, when he desired to be kindly remembered to you. My Affection for the good old Dr. increases every Time I visit him, which I do very frequently. An Anecdote just occurs which will make you smile. Calling to’ther Day to ask Dr. Franklin “how he did,” I found him sitting, with only a single Cap...
22845From John Adams to Elijah Cooper, 16 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 9th of this month. The defence of the American Constitutions, being public, any man has a right to publish a new edition of it, who will run the risque of a loss by it. I doubt whether you will find your account in it. As to additions & annotations it would be easy with time & leisure, to make many; but my time is the property of the nation, & every moment of...
22846Peter Augustus Jay to James Fenimore Cooper, 29 May 1829 (Jay Papers)
My good old father has paid the debt of nature. He died on the 17th. ins t . I need not tell you how much he was loved and venerated by his children. His departure was attended by every circumstance which can lighten affliction for such a loss. Yet the separation is very painful and I am not yet in a mood to write with levity. William will continue to reside at Bedford; the Estate there is...
22847From George Washington to Myles Cooper, 15 April 1774 (Washington Papers)
As your letter (& accot) to Mr Custis, was receivd by him posterior to the one written to me, & not immediately given into my hands, (as the young Gentn since his marriage has been good part of his time in Maryland) I could not make you the enclos’d remittance much sooner. You will now receive a Draft on Messrs Osgood Hanbury & Company for £65 Sterling, which please to dispose of, & with the...
22848From George Washington to Myles Cooper, 15 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
The favourable account you was pleas’d to transmit me of Mr Custis’s conduct at College, gave me very great satisfaction; & I hoped to have felt an increase of it by his continuance at that place under a Gentleman so capable of instructing him in every branch of useful knowledge, as you are: but these hopes are at an end; & at length, I have yielded, contrary to my judgment, & much against my...
22849From George Washington to Myles Cooper, 31 May 1773 (Washington Papers)
Inclos’d you have a sett of Bills for one hundred pounds Sterling which please to sell at the prevailing Exchange and retain the money in your own hands to answer Mr Custis’ Expences at College, & such calls as he may have for Cash to defray the Incident expences of his abode in this City—In respect to the first Article of Expence, I submit the matter wholely to your better judgement, under a...
22850From James Madison to Richard Cooper, 6 November 1801 (Madison Papers)
As it appears that you have not sold the Boat and Stores prepared for the expedition to Lake Superior I request you to do it on the receipt hereof, and then to make out a new account accompanying it with proper vouchers, in which credit is to be given for the amount of sales. The charges to be contained in it must have relation to the state of the business on the day of your receiving Mr....