To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 19 April 1805
From Martha Jefferson Randolph
Monticello April 19 1805
My Dearest Father
Mr Randolph’s election is almost certain the polls stand, Alb. TM.R 503 W.L. 140. Amh. TM.R. 390. WL. 474. which leaves Mr Randolph a majority of 279, so that independant of his influence in Fluvanna which is great, he is safe. we are all well, but I am moored here till thursday as he1 stopped a day with us on his way to Fluvanna where he now is, of course I am obliged to stay till his return. the weather is very favorable to your new plantations but many of the thorns I am told are certainly dead. adieu My Dear Father it is so late I am in danger of Losing the post yours most tenderly
MR.
RC (ViU: Edgehill-Randolph Papers); endorsed by TJ as received 23 Apr. and so recorded in SJL.
W.L.: Walter Leake, also of Albemarle County, later governor of Mississippi (Dunbar Rowland, Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, 2 vols. [Madison, Wis., 1907], 2:63).
Amh.: Amherst County.
For TJ’s new planting of thorns, see Joseph Dougherty to TJ, 22 Mch.
1. Randolph here partially canceled “[bare]ly.”