I shou’d have embraced an earlier opportunity to make my acknowledgements for your kind favor by Jefferson Randolph but being on a visit to Mrs Monroe it did not reach me till the day before yesterday I beg you to accept my sincere thanks for your polite and friendly invitation and the unexpected...
FOR THE ENQUIRER. RECOLLECTIONS OF A VISIT TO MONTICELLO. Dining once at the President’s house, I was standing at a window, before the company assembled, conversing with Mr. Jefferson. I was admiring the scenery which lay before us, and speaking of the pleasure derived from a contemplation of...
During the hot months of July, August, and September, there is a kind of interregnum in society, when pleasure and happiness are equally suspended. Mr. Seymour and his family generally passed this leisure season at Ballston Springs, or the sea-shore; but this year, wishing to vary the scene, they...
In a visit Mr. J. made our little cottage last autumn, we were speaking of all the various charms of nature, storms of winter, “But,” said he, “you can here form no idea of a snow storm, No, to see it in all its grandeur you should stand at my back door; there we see its progress—rising over the...
We have been here two weeks the first nine days Phil was so ill that I never left my room his foot was extremely swolen for several days & he is better now then I have seen him for a year but I have been very sick a cold fell on my breast...
relying on your goodness I have taken the liberty to introduce to you particularly Mrs Onis Lady of the Minister plenipotentiary & Envoy extraordinary of Spain, whose excellence I am sure will gain on you each time that you are in her company. I feel myself so much interested in her forming a...
I am very sorry to hear that you are so very sick, I am very glad of the idea of going to New Orleans, Brother gives his love to you and says he tries his best to write to you, I hope you will go to New Orleans with us. give my love to Aunt Harriot if you please, we are now at Aunt Christinas I...
Je ne pourrai jamais te peindre Mon Etonnement Chere Jeff En recevant En recevant il y a deux Mois ta Lettre du mois de Mars dernier. Ladresse que tu avois mise hotel De Noailles, que j’ai quitté il y a Dix ans, La datte qui d’abord étoit de 1800, tout Me faisoit Croire que c’étoit un rêve et je...
Uncle Charles sets of tomorrow for Alexandria, Father and Mother have arrived at N. York, he was very well a week ago, but the gout has attacked him again it flies from his hand to the foot,—I hope Dear Grandmother you will forgive me for my neglect I hope Aunt Harriot will be soon with you,...
I have waited with impatience for nearly two a month expecting to hear from some one of the family (yourself excepted) respecting my final arrangement for the winter; The house is very much crowded at present, but we experience no inconvenience from it, having a room in another, house I never see...
notice.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, a negro man named POMPEY, about 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high, 18 or 20 years old, very black and straight—left the subscriber’s employment on Friday the 29th of September, 1809. It is probable he may attempt to pass for a f...
The papers that I inclosed to you the last Winter Session of Congress, to be presented to Mr Jefferson to obtain his permission for the Commissioner who sold a Tract of Land, under a decree of The H. Court of Chancery, which belonged to the Estate of Wm Ronald Decd, and which was sold to satisfy...
On my return last evening from Eppington I found my dear Sisters letter it gave me great pleasure as every proof of her affection will ever do, Sincerely do I regret my absence from home when it arrived, I fear you have experienced...