Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 21 April 1823
To Francis Eppes
Mo Apr. 21. 23.
Dear Francis
I am necessarily detained here by a negocian for the Univy with the Literary board not yet closed, and our next ct which I must attend is now so near as not to allow me time for my visit to you and to get back to court. I must then defer it until our court is over. I mentd to yourself and to Jefferson that you must make use of our dairy, our flock of sheep Etc for your table until your own should become sufficient, and lest mr Gough should not have been apprised of this I write him the inclosed letter, which I pray you to deliver him. I think I shall be with you about the 10th or 12th of May. my crippled wrist and hand are still in an useless situation and not likely soon to be otherwise.1 Joe having got his axletree broken yesterday, is detained here to-day while we make a new one. present me affectionately to2 Elizabeth and be assured yourself of my constant attachment.
Th:J.
FC (CSmH: JF); on verso of bottom half of a reused address cover from Alden Partridge to TJ, the other half of which was used for Dft of enclosure; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure: TJ to William Gough, 21 Apr. 1823.
jefferson: Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
1. Omitted period at right margin editorially supplied.
2. Sentence to this point canceled, presumably unintentionally.
Index Entries
- Albemarle County Court, Va. search
- carts; axles for search
- Eppes, Francis Wayles (TJ’s grandson); and Poplar Forest search
- Eppes, Francis Wayles (TJ’s grandson); letters to search
- Eppes, Francis Wayles (TJ’s grandson); TJ’s relationship with search
- Eppes, Mary Elizabeth Cleland Randolph (Francis Wayles Eppes’s wife; Thomas Eston Randolph’s daughter); TJ sends greetings to search
- food; milk search
- Gough, William; as Poplar Forest overseer search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Health; wrist injury search
- Joe (J. W. Eppes’s slave) search
- Literary Fund; and loans for University of Virginia search
- milk; at Poplar Forest search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); and F. W. Eppes search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); dairy at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); sheep at search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); TJ plans visits to search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); as manager of Poplar Forest search
- sheep; at Poplar Forest search
- slaves; travels of search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- wheels and axles search