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John C. Page to Martha B. Eppes, 30 Sept. 1823

It will be necessary for you, my dear Madam, to give your overseers orders, to collect all the stock, Farming utensils, &c &c previous to Thursday—the Negroes, stock &c at Smiths, had better remain there—the appraisers can come down, more conveniently, than they can be carried to the...

David M. Randolph (1798–1825) to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 Oct. 1823

I have just returned from Monticello the first visit I have made since I spent so many agreeable days there with you 5 years ago, as I have just learned your direction, you will not take it amiss that I have not before written to you. A Friend is a treasure, such a one as I have found in you, do...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Adamantios Coray, 31 Oct. 1823 [Quote]

the equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual are now acknoleged to be the only legitimate objects of government. modern times have the signal advantage too of having discovered the only device by which these rights can be secured, to wit, government by the people.

Cary Ann Nicholas Smith to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 2 Nov. 1823

I have been wishing to write to you for some time but as usual lazy, lazy. my desire to know what is the matter with mamma conquers that vile infirmity of mine. I think you must have been administering some sort of powders to her, for with the exception of her three precious pets, she appears to...

Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 24 Nov. 1823

Yours of the 21st: is now before me, covg a blank for Col Randolph’s note due thursdy next at Farmers Bank, which shall be put in in good time. I have pd P. N. Nicholas T. & Magruders dft: on me, in your favor, for $360, & also $3.25, on your a/c, the cost of protest, which is at your...

Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) to Nicholas P. Trist, 27 Nov. 1823

Mail after mail has arrived without bringing me a line from you My Dear Nicholas, for more than a month past. have you forgotten me? or are you sick? I assure you that enquiry, which I make of myself every hour in the day without being able to answer, torments me very much. the last letter that I...

Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Nicholas P. Trist, 22 Dec. 1823

If I did not, from experience, know you to be a “much enduring man”, my dear Nicholas, I should despair of forgiveness for my manifold sins as a correspondent; I can only assure you that I have been deterred from writing as much by the consiousness of having nothing new or agreable to tell you,...

Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 1 Jan. 1824

I have paid your half years interest to the Literary fund, say $225, and have requested Mr. Christian to make a statement of the interest due to the college, & call when he pleases, & the money shall be paid, I think I understood him to say he had some $9,000 of principal for you, tho’ am...

Elizabeth Trist to Mary House Gilmer, 30 Jan. [1824]

I am induced to trouble you a gain with my scrawl from hearing Mrs Randolph speak of the good effect she experienced from taking charcoal when her stomach was affected by acidity I beg’d her to write the receipt which she has just brought me, I shou’d have been very unhappy had I known your...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Jared Sparks, 4 Feb. 1824 [Quote]

In the disposition of these unfortunate people, there are two rational objects to be distinctly kept in view. 1. the establishment of a colony on the coast of Africa, which may introduce among the Aborigines the arts of cultivated life, and the blessings of civilisation and science. by doing this...

Nicholas P. Trist to Virginia Jefferson Randolph (Trist), 18 Feb. 1824

With sincere contrition, my own dearest Virginia, I acknowledge my departure from those rules of conduct which I have so often recommended to you. But, believe me, though I have acted most foolishly, my conscience does not reproach me with having harbored any resentment against you. Had I given...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph: Bond Payable to Opie Norris, 5 Mar. 1824

On demand, for value received, I, Thomas J Randolph of Albemarle county, promise to pay to Opie Norris, Admr. of John C. Ragland, decd. his heirs or assigns, the sum of twenty seven Dollars and fifty cents, current money of Virginia, with legal interest thereon from the 21st day of February 1824...

Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Nicholas P. Trist, 30 Mar. 1824

Really, my dear Nicholas, you are quite too modest and humble; you will never make your way in the world with so poor an opinion of your own merits; do you not know that with the common herd a man often passes current for the value he chooses to fix on himself & that impudence is the most...

Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) to Nicholas P. Trist, 8 Apr. 1824

I expect you have accused me of relapsing into my lazy habits of last Fall, Dearest Nicholas, and I hasten to vindicate myself in the very first moment that belongs to me. The meeting of the visitor’s which was to have taken place as soon as the assembly rose, was postponed until the usual time,...