33331To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 21 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My dearest Grand papa must not imagine because he received no letter last post that I did not write for the post now goes out Friday and my letter was too late for it but I send it to him now. we have had blue and white lilac blue and white flags and Jonquils I found also in the woods a great many mountain cowslips and wild Ranunculus besides other wild flowers. I have got the seed of the...
33332To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The post is going directly and I only have time to write a few lines to let you know that we are all well and I hope you are so. I wrote to you last saturday and shall wait impatiently to hear from you soon. I have not time to write any more to you now but I will very shortly make amends for this short letter Mama and all the children send their love to you give mine to Mrs K. Smith adieu my...
33333To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Rev. M r Brazer, a Unitarian Clergyman of Salem in this State, asks from M r Coolidge or myself a letter of introduction to you, as he proposes to make a tour through the middle states, & wishes to visit Monticello, & pay his respects to you there. knowing, as we do, how much you are harassed and oppressed by the crowd of strangers who think themselves privileged to waste and misuse your...
33334To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 20 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
How was I disappointed at not recieving a letter from my Dear Grand Papa this Post in answer to one I wrote him: you said in your letter to Sister Ann, that you expected but a short one from me, however I am determined to keep up a regular correspondence, if possible. you said also, that you would catch me in bed the morning of the 18 19 or 20 of this month; I hope you will not, for I shall...
33335To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 30 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been a long time since I have heard from my Dear Grandpapa although he is two letters in my debt one of which I expected last post but not recieving it I concluded it would be better to set down and write to put you in mind of your promise of writing to me sometimes. Jefferson has returned and so has Mr Ogelvie who is going to be married to a Mrs Bankhead of Port Royal who is the widow...
33336To John Adams from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
My Grandfather informs me that you have expressed a wish to hear from him through my means, since he is deprived of the power of writing to you himself by the accident which has disabled one of his wrists. this accident was much less serious than might have been apprehended from the circumstances under which it took place. the fall was to the ground from a terrace about three feet high; my...
33337To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 4 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved my Dear Grandpapas letter with great pleasure and should have answered it last post but by some neglect it remained untill tuesday in the office and therfore I could not answer it as the post went out saturday. We are all recovered now except Mary who is still unwell but she is now much better than she was a few days ago and I hope she will soon be entirely well Aunt Jane has...
33338Extract from Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 13 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
We have reached our journey’s end my dear Mother, in safety, not without some disagreable adventures, such as being confined one whole day by the rain— at Flood’s tavern . we left Uncle Eppes ’s before sun-rise monday —the morning was lowering, and it was dropping rain before we set out, but you know Grand-papa —he was morally certain we should have “a cool agreable cloudy day for our journey,...
33339To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I have only a torn sheet of paper to write upon yet rather than to neglect writing at all I will make use of it; as I have no paper it will not be in my power to write again shortly to you or any body. Little Benjamins eye is almost well and I hope the next letter you receive from me will inform you that there is no more of that troublesome rising which incommoded him and alarmed us for...
33340To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 22 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I hardly think it worthwhile to write to you for I have no news nor any thing agreable to tell you but as I know you are always glad to hear from Edgehill I will take up my pen to inform you that all are well here. I am reading Millot in French and Homers Illiad in English I have begun to study Geography and I am very much pleased with it James grows sweeter and better every day he can speak...
33341Enclosure: Edy Turner’s Vocabulary of the Nottoway Language, 4 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Vocabulary of the language of the Nottoway Tribe of Indians, obtained from an old Indian Woman of the name of Edie Turner , the 4 th of March 1820 . Nouns. Of the Universe 1. The Sun Aheeta 2. The Moon Tethrāke 3. The Stars Deeshū
33342To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose a bill for the brandy &c my dearest Grandpapa, by which you will see that we have still a few dollars remaining of the sixty sent by Col Peyton. there are also such receipts for dressing the fish & tongues & sounds as I could obtain, but these dishes, especially the latter, are scarcely ever brought upon table in Boston, owing, I suppose, to their being so easily obtained as to lose...
33343To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 17 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I suspect that it would be more reasonable to think that your owing me 3 letters proceeds from my having more time than industry although a very little part of this winter has been spent by me in Idleness still however I think that you must have a great deal more to do than I have. Mama has been unwell for several days but I hope she will soon recover all the children are in good health as for...
33344Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [after 29 August 1817], document 3 in a group of … (Jefferson Papers)
Johnny’s arrival gave us great pleasure as we began to be very anxious to hear from you, and I thank you very much for having spared time to write such a long letter. the head of Christ is really a great curiosity, Grand-papa is almost as much pleased with it as we are, and considers it extremely ingenious & original. it is certainly a very fine face and the character is so decided that I...
33345Thomas Jefferson to Edward Everett, 24 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with much satisfaction the reply of mr Everett your brother to the criticisms on his work on the state of Europe , and concur with him generally in the doctrines of the reply. certainly provisions are not allowed, by the consent of nations, to be contraband but where every thing is so, as in the case of a blockaded town with which all intercourse is forbidden. On the question...
33346To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 13 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed to express the gratification wh. my visit to Monticello, (during the last Spring) gave me, until called upon to ask of you further kindness. During the fortnight which I passed so agreably in your family, the many valuable qualities of Miss Randolph made an impression upon me wh, at parting, I did not attempt to conceal:—I confessed to Mrs Randolph the interest her daughter had...
33347To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 15 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have seen Mr Willard, and given him your order for a clock and bell: in consequence of my conversation with him on the subject, some time since, he procured castings of the principal wheels, and made other preparations, at his own risk, which involved him in some expense and make an advance desireable; at present all he asks is 100 dls, and the work done amply warrants the payment of such a...
33348To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
After ascertaining the name of the best clock-maker in this place, I called upon him with the memorandum you had given me; he asked a few days to make his calculations, and then answered that a first-rate time-keeper, warranted to perform satisfactorily, and of the size wanted for the Rotunda, would cost eight hundred dollars: for this sum he engages to make “as good a clock as can be found in...
33349To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 25 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry that it was not in my power sooner to answer your very kind letter of April 12: I am told that a bell weighing about 400℔, would be heard always at the distance of one mile; the cost of which at 35 cts. pr ℔, with 14 dls. for a stock, and wheel—recommended to be made here—would be One hundred and fifty four dollars: from this a slight reduction might possibly be obtained by one...
33350To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 23 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On receiving your letter, I called on Mr Hilliard, and gave him all the information in my power relative to the university: upon some points he was desirous to hear farther from you; but, as one of the partners of the house of Cummings, Hilliard & Co will soon be in Charlottesville, I hope you will be spared the fatigue of an additional correspondence. You mention that, possibly, Mr Hilliard...
33351To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 27 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been very much gratified by the letters rec d from you since I left Monticello; those which contained accounts of the interruption to good order at the University were made use of to correct erroneous impressions upon the subject, wherever we found them to exist; and others, referring to the different small commissions with which you had honoured me, gave me an opportunity of shewing at...
33352William Coolidge to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
If an apology is necessary for this address, from an intire stranger, I trust its object will be deemed by you, as satisfactory, and accepted as such. The Agriculture and Manufactures of our Country have considerably improved, and are rapidly progressing; and while we can make the one, in a measure dependant on the other, it will tend, not only to promote both; but, in a degree, render us...
33353To James Madison from Griffith Coombe, 7 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
James Madison Esqr. To Griffith Coombe—Dr 1807 January 7th To 90 bushels Coal @ 35 100 $31:50 Cash pd for halling the same 3½ Cts Bushel 3:15 $ 34:65 Recd paymt in full RC ( DLC ).
33354To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Coombe, 17 April 1769 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Your favour of the 5th January, I receiv’d per Cap. Falconer. The Book you was pleased to send me, I also received, and accept as a mark of the Authors Friendship, tho the Instances of the very extraordinary kindness shewn my Son and your Assurances of it’s continuance, together with the Pleasure you are pleased to express in my recommending him to you, are...
33355To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Coombe, Jr., 24 September 1774 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library I take the earliest opportunity of acknowledging the receipt of your kind letter by Captain Falconer, and of thanking you for the present of books which accompanied it. Mr. Lindsey’s production was a curiosity that I had for some time been wishing to see. I had heard of his fame, but knew nothing of his particularities, till I saw his book, which appears to me to...
33356Thomas 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...
33357To Thomas Jefferson from Apollos Cooper, 15 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of a respectable number of the Republicans of the county of Oneida convened at the house of Mr. A. Loomis in Westmoreland, January 15, 1807. pursuant to public notice, for the purpose of adopting an Address to the President of the United States. Apollos Cooper, Esq. was chosen Chairman and Samuel Dill, Secretary. Resolved, That Francis A. Bloodgood, Joshua Hathaway, David W....
33358To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Brown Cooper, 7 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
A Letter has bin forwarded me from Eggharbour, requesting a Solicitation, (to you) for Joseph Whinner to the Office of Collector of the Port of Egg Harbour, in the room of A Freeling that has latterly taken to drink, this change will be highly recommendable in the neighbourhood of Egg Harbour and by the Republicans of the County at Large tho at this critical time in consiquence of the...
33359Enclosure: Charles D. Cooper to Philip Schuyler, [23 April 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
The malignant attack which my character has sustained in an anonymous hand-bill, to which your letter of the 21st inst. directed to the chairman of the Federal electioneering committee of this city is annexed; and in which you contradict certain facts contained in a letter, said to have been written by me to Andrew Brown , Esq. of Bern, will be my apology for repelling the unfounded aspersions...
33360To John Adams from Elijah Cooper, 9 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
It has been suggested to me by a number of respectable Gentlemen of this town and vicinity, as an object worthy attention, to publish a new & elegant edition of your Defence of the American Constitutions ; and I have promise of much support. If I can obtain the honor of your approbation, I shall immediately put the work to press, & finish it with all possible speed:—it will be impressed on the...