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Elizabeth Trist to Catharine Wistar Bache, 10 July 1809

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...

Harriet Hackley to Dolley Madison, 10 Aug. 1809

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...

Nicholas P. Trist to Elizabeth Trist, 25 Sept. 1809

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...

Marie Jacinthe de Botidoux to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 4 Oct. 1809

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...

Nicholas P. Trist to Elizabeth Trist, 5 Oct. 1809

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,...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 30 Nov. 1809]

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...

Samuel Carr's Advertisement for a Runaway Slave, 4 Dec. 1809

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...

William Bentley to John Wayles Eppes, 23 Dec. 1809

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...

Lucy Eppes Thweatt to Martha B. Eppes, 28 Dec. 1809

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...