27571Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 19 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1 st came safely to hand. I am sorry you have lost mr Elliot ; however the kindness of D r Cooper will be able to keep you in the tract of what is worthy of your time. You ask my opinion of L d Bolingbroke and Thomas Paine . they were alike in making bitter enemies of the priests & Pharisees of their day. both were honest men; both advocates for human liberty.
27572Enclosure: 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
27573Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 9 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 22. did not reach me till a few days ago. that of Feb 6 . had been recieved in that month. being chiefly a statement of facts, it did not seem to require an answer, and my burthen of letter writing is so excessive as to restrain me to answers absolutely necessary. I think, with you, that you had now better turn in to the study of the law. as no one can read a whole day...
27574Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 21 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you, my dear Francis , a Greek grammar , the best I know for the use of schools. it is the one now most generally used in the United States . I expect you will begin it soon after your arrival at the New London academy . you might, while at home, amuse yourself with learning the letters, and spelling and reading the Greek words, so that you may not be stopped by that when mr Mitchell...
27575Valuation of Poplar Forest Slaves by Richard Walker and Joel Yancey, [January 1823] (Jefferson Papers)
Fr. Eppes . Maria & 2 children 600 George Welch 275 Phill 400 Edmond 300 James Hanah s 300
27576From Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 26 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Aug. 9. & Sep. 21. were duly recieved: and altho’, according to the latter I may expect your servant tomorrow, if you succeed in the purchase of the horse, yet as mr Coles is now here & proposes to go by the way of Eppington I think it surest to answer by him. I have had your table, copying press & bust well packed in a box, and as I am sure it would be agreeable to mrs...
27577Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 6 th is rec e ived. I set out the day after tomorrow for Poplar Forest , and shall be there till the 1 st of May . you say you will be at home the 25 th . I really think Francis had better come on diret direct
27578Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
For want of time to consult you on it, I have taken a measure of great responsibility on my self as to Francis , for your pardon for which I must rely on the motives, and what I hope will be the effect of it. French is become the most indispensable part of modern education. it is the only language in which a man of any country can be understood out of his own; and is now the preeminent...
27579Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 9 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to learn by Francis’s letter that your you are not yet recovered from your rheumatism, and much wonder you do not go and pass a summer at the Warm springs . from the examples I have seen I should entertain no doubt of a radical cure. the transactions at Washington and Alexandria are indeed beyond expectation. the circumjacent country is mostly disaffected, but I should have thought...
27580Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 28 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with sincere regret the continuance of your ill health, placing at the same time much reliance on the vis vitae at your time of life, which is quite sufficient to promise a restoration of order to the system. the benefit you recieved from the springs the last year encourages confidence in a repetition of the experiment. I think with you that it has been unlucky that Francis so early...