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Elizabeth Trist to Emma Walker Gilmer (Breckinridge), 14 May 1820

I have been expecting to hear from some of the family for the last two weeks for I think I mention’d to you that I shou’d look for a letter from some of you every month and it is near six weeks since I have had a line from Bedford I hope sickness in the family has not been the cause of your...

Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 May 1820

I have been in Richmond a week to day my dear Mother, and two posts have past without my hearing from home. Elizabeth and Virginia received letters to day from Harriet, but she says nothing of the Monticello family, & I wh I am beginning to be very anxious to hear from you all. Aunt Hackley...

Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 May 1820

I have been in Richmond a week to day my dear Mother, and two posts have past without my hearing from home. Elizabeth and Virginia received letters to day from Harriet, but she says nothing of the Monticello family, & I wh I am beginning to be very anxious to hear from you all. Aunt Hackley...

Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 19 May 1820

I reciev’d your letters yesterday My Dear Virginia while writhing under one of those infernal pains, & with the horrors of being oblig’d to sleep that night in a room full of girls, for Mrs Carr & her daughters were expected last evening on their arrival from Baltimore; she is to spend...

Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 19 May 1820

I reciev’d your letters yesterday My Dear Virginia while writhing under one of those infernal pains, & with the horrors of being oblig’d to sleep that night in a room full of girls, for Mrs Carr & her daughters were expected last evening on their arrival from Baltimore; she is to spend...

Hore Browse Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 30 May 1820

You have the boldness to say that I am in your debt to a considerable amount of epistolary specie, whereas, I am well convinced, if all accounts were settled between us, the balance would be in my favour. no doubt you find it some what more irksome to write a letter than to read one, and for that...

Hore Browse Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 30 May 1820

You have the boldness to say that I am in your debt to a considerable amount of epistolary specie, whereas, I am well convinced, if all accounts were settled between us, the balance would be in my favour. no doubt you find it some what more irksome to write a letter than to read one, and for that...

Sarah E. Nicholas to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, [ca. 5 June 1820]

This is the fourth day that we have been expecting the carriage and it has not yet arrived nor have we heard from you by post, and, although the delay has been a very seasonable one, as I will convince you presently, still we cannot help feeling a little uneasy at your misterious silence; we...

Thomas Mann Randolph to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 June 1820

Your very acceptable favor of the 2d ult. has lain long unanswered from many causes, which I omitt to enumerate from my confidence in the stability of your friendly sentiments, and the consciousness of a permanent reciprocation of them in myself. General Lallemands proposals to publish his...

Martha B. Baker to Martha B. Eppes, 7 June [1820?]

You know not, how your letter has revived my spirits, every allowance is made by me, & am charitable in all I think, about you, for never have I seased to love & think of you, and as I knew full well your sufferings I have never blamed you for not writing, tho felt sorry I did not hear...

Martha B. Baker to Martha B. Eppes, 7 June [1820?]

We arrived here on thursday, & but for the horses giving fairly out, should have seen you with Mr Baker—my disappointment is very great, but will as soon as my horses recover visit you—You know not how much I think of you—& none of your friends feels your situation more than I do—Through...

Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 15 June 1820

Your favor of the 3d reached me last evening I have heard nothing of those articles that you were so kind as to order to be sent to me, perhaps there might not have been an opportunity to send them, there seems a difficulty attending geting any thing from Richmond Mr James wrote Your Brother that...

Mary Trist Jones Tournillon to Nicholas P. Trist, 27 June 1820

Your Father has this moment received the enclosed letter from Messrs Mackie Milne and Co your grandmother wrote to you last Sunday informing you of Your Fathers illness, since then he has recovered rapidly; Have you seen Lewis Livingston until this letter arrived I thought he had taken it with...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 30 June 1820 [Quote]

I know no error more consuming to an estate than that of stocking farms with men almost exclusively. I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm. what she produces is an addition to the capital, while his labors disappear in mere...

Lewis Livingston to Nicholas P. Trist, 1 July 1820

I have just received your two letters of the 25 and 28th ulto and I am sorry to find there is so little hope of seeing you in our neighbourood. Since you are so strict a disciplinarian and have put it all upon the score of duty I can not venture to say another word upon the subject but will...

Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 4 July 1820

I am on the Wing for the Presidents Mrs Hay came for me yesterday but I was too unwell to accompany her and am far from being well to day Mrs Monroe is very unwell the family here are all, except poor little George in tolarable health tho the Girls often complain Virginia has had a Severe attack...