George P. Digges to Nelson Barksdale, 30 Aug. 1818
Cesars month is at an end—therefore you will please give directions what for him to return home & send Bearer an order on the treasurer for $12 the amount herewith due me for his hire
Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 27 Apr. 1818
Owing to the negligence of my clerk (which I believe is unexampled) you have forwarded 42½ Tons Plaister instead of 35 as you wished which I hope will make no difference with you—the error was committed by not examining what had been sent until it was too late, the parcel was large & I...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, [ca. 31 July 1818]
Your letter My Dear Jane has relieved My mind from a weight of anxiety that would most effectually have bannished sleep I had figured to my self Jefferson seriously ill too much so to leave home & alone. and had tormented my self in to hysterics when your welcome note arrived Ellen has a...
Extract from William Henry Bogart’s Notes on Salma Hale’s Visit to Monticello, 7 May 1818, [after 1858] [Quote]
... such is the testimony given me by Mr. Hale, the author of a History of the United States, who numbered among the most fortunate incidents of his life that he made a visit to Monticello. Mr. Jefferson welcomed him, scarcely noticing his letters of introduction, and at once made his...
Mary Trist Jones Tournillon to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 May 1818
You were right in believing my dearest Son that nothing interests my heart so much as the happiness of my Children; therefore you must be certain that your letter of the 13th which I received last night was not read with indifference as it does not denote a mind as happy as I could wish, or you...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinando Fairfax, 10 May 1818 [Quote]
peace & prosperity are twin-brothers; so are war & demoralisation.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 17 May 1818 [Quote]
my repugnance to the writing table becomes daily & hourly more deadly & insurmountable. in place of this has come on a canine appetite for reading. and I indulge it: because I see in it a relief against the taedium senectutis; a lamp to lighten my path thro’ the dreary wilderness of time...
Margaret Smith Nicholas to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 21 May 1818
I sent you some Sturgion (I believe three peices) by a Waterman of Coln Randolph’s, which I hope you have received safe, I expect some of the Vinagar will be lost, if so, you must fill it up again, it is a convenient dish, and I expect will keep very will in your cool cellar. As Cary Anne has...
Margaret Smith Nicholas to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 23 May 1818
I know it to be so delightful to hear from our friends that altho I wrote to you the day before yesterday, I cannot allow Phill to return without a few lines, I can give you no account of Elisabeth R. as the girls were disappointed in making her the visit they intended yesterday. they will go to...
Peachy R. Gilmer to Nicholas P. Trist, 24 May 1818
Your very kind letter of the 4th of this month reached Liberty during my absence on the circuit. I must Join my admonitions to those of your excellent mother in warning you against a habit of procrastination, either in matters of friendship or business; It would be impossible for me to beleive...
Margaret Smith Nicholas to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 26 May 1818
I have this moment received your letter from kent, who had been on the look out for Col Randolph’s boat, as I had a box of plumbs, and oranges, and five tongues packed up to send by it. which I hope you may receive in good time. there are two dozen of oranges, you hear from us so regularly, that...
Margaret Smith Nicholas to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 27–31 May 1818
I am sorry you should think it necessary to write even with a severe head ach, to secure a letter from me, rest saticefied my dear Child, that I will give you a faithful, and accurate account of Sarah’s situation twice a week as long as she is Ill. and when I miss a mail you may be assured that...
Thomas Mann Randolph to Peachy R. Gilmer, 9 June 1818
I believe I may say at last that the affairs of our friend Trist, which were left with me to settle, are brought to a close. I need not remind you that the land, which I was especially instructed to sell as well as I could, was sold for the Bonds of diverse persons bearing interest, money at...
Etienne St. Julien de Tournillon to Nicholas P. Trist, 15 June 1818
Depuis trois mois, Sans éxagération, nous Sommes ici Sans pluie ou du moins Le peu que nous En avons Eue a Suffi à peine à abattre la poussière: je m’attendais cette année à faire une grande plantation et Elle était même déjà faitte; mais à mon retour de La ville, c’est à dire, Vers La fin d...
John Wayles Eppes to Francis Eppes, 20 June 1818
Our neighbour Captn Evans has been so good as to take charge of your virgil He thinks an opportunity will certainly offer of forwarding it while he is in Lynchburg—If none such should occur I have requested him to leave it with Mr Wells the Tavern keeper with whom I was formerly well acquainted ...
Receipt for Payment of Albemarle County Taxes on Central College Lands, June 1818
Proctor of Central College
Receipt for Payment of Albemarle County Taxes on Central College Slave Laborers, June 1818
N. Barksdale (proctor to central college) Ira Harris D.S for Ro. Davis
John F. Dumoulin to Nicholas P. Trist, 23 July 1818
It was with the greatest pleasure I received the letter which you were so good as to write me on the 22nd May. but which by the post appears not to have been forwarded untill Sometime in June—and a few days since I had the additional pleasure in of receiving a letter which your Grand-Mother did...
Hugh Chisholm’s Order on Central College, with John M. Perry’s Receipt, 29 July 1818
$800 Mr Nelson Barksdale Sir pay to John M. Perry or order Eight hundred dollars on account of Brick work done at the Central College
Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 30 July 1818
I have been so cruelly afflicted with a pain in my face all this week and am so much enfeebled by loss of sleep that I cannot ride as far as Warren for a week to come I have not been confined to the house any day yet all day but when I have been out I have been obliged to skulk from shade to...
Extract from the University of Virginia Commissioners - Rockfish Gap Report, 4 Aug. 1818 [Quote]
form the statesmen, legislators & judges, on whom public prosperity, & individual happiness are so much to depend.
John Wayles Eppes to Francis Eppes, 6 Aug. 1818
I received your last letter & feel some pleasure in observing the progress you are making—Your hand writing is much changed for the better & your style so much improved as to excite not surprise merely but heartfelt satisfaction—I look forward with great anxiety to the period of your...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 14 Aug. 1818
I detained Jem My Dear Jane in hopes Wormley would arrive in time for him to have some of a lamb I sent to Edgehill for this morning as he has not arrived I have had a quarter that was larded to braise wrapped up and such vegetables as our garden affords with orders to try and meet wormley and...
George Blackburn to Thomas Mann Randolph, 16 Aug. 1818
Happening to make a short visit to Virginia with my children in search of health and exercise, I found several of my friends in this state interested for the fate of the contemplated ...
Extract from the Diary of John H. Cocke, 26 Aug. 1818
Left Bremo accompanied by Genl Taylor his Son Robt & nephew Wm Eyre for the Springs—reached Charlottesville to a late dinner. Visited my friend Alexr Garret who accompanied us in the Eveng. as far as the central College; which we found progressing slowly towards completion—The first...