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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
the charcoal should be taken fresh from the fire and the moment it is cool enough beaten to an impalpable powder and sifted through fine muslin. when, immediately put in to a phial and corked tight, as exposure to the air destroys it’s virtue. if the coal is has been dead any time it must be...
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...
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...
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...
Whereas Thomas Jefferson Randolph has heretofore either wholly discharged or has assumed upon himself the payment of several large bonds, drafts, promissory, negotiable or protested notes and thereby has actually paid or become liable to pay the same to Thomas Mann Randolph the elder to a large...
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,...
articles of agreement between Daniel Piper and Frances his wife of the one part & Arthur S. Brockenbrough proctor of the university of virginia; witnesseth, that the Said Daniel & francis his wife hath this day sold to the sd proctor of the university of virginia & his successor in...
When I returned from albemarle the day before yesterday, I found your letter waiting me. I thank you for it, and as I shall have but a few hours to delay on the journey I shall go from Norfolk to Baltimore directly. and I hope find you there on tuesday morning, for I leave this on sunday for...
I was so busy on Saturday I could not go to seek you— I did not know you had come, & here I am on my way far from you without shaking your hand—Keep my council, and tell no one where I am gone, for what, or any thing about the matter—Say I am gone north, which is true,
Although the house does not afford a pen with which I can write decently, I will not longer delay answering my dearest Virginia’s last letter, especially as it was my intention to have written by the mail succeeding that which brought it to me, & was only deterred from doing so by the...
I went yesterday to the house of Commons, returned late, hungry & fatigued, and never heard of your note without date, ’till this morning, on the instant of my departure. I had locked up the paper in my trunk, & English coaches no more than tides, wait for any one. I will keep it with the...
My last will have put to rest your fears about the Wm & Mary interest, the note you sent me was filled up with $720 Dolls:, & discounted at the farmers Bank, $700 Dolls: of which I instantly placed at the credit of Mr. Christian, on that a/c, & advised him of it, both privately &...
The determination of Col. Bolling to leave us this morning, allous me but a moment to acknowledge the reciept of your favor of the 10th instant, with the kind and liberal supply of a portion of your excellent fruit, for which we pray you & Mrs Cocke to accept our gratefull thanks. The caution...
The time for my departure is now so near at hand, that I begin to despair of seeing you in England, which I was very desirous to do. The more so, because I fear you did not receive a letter I wrote you from Cambridge, the very day I I left London, in answer to your note sent to the Tavistock,...
In a casual conversation with your sister Bankhead a few days ago, I expressed a desire to purchase a farm near the University of Virginia, provided I could dispose of some lands in the county of Henry in this state; upon which she remarked, that you were desirous to dispose of one called as well...
My very dear Grand Son your letter of the 18th of last month I received with heart felt pleasure, last evening, tho its contents was not alltogether calculated to increase my happiness it relieved my mind from apprehensions for your safty having heard of the fever that raged in orleans and that...
I take it as rather scandalous in you not to have written to me more than once. You ask me how a man of my discretion, came in such a Ship, with such a Capt. &c. &c. Why Sir, the Ship is excellent, else it had never braved the billows of the Br. Channel—a rougher sea never rolled in...
I thank you for your letter inclosing two others. I should have written to you earlier but have not even yet been to Albemarle, nor seen Mr Jefn. I am however resolved on continuing at the bar: and shall open the debate on the 20th Jany. if my health permit. I am recovering my strength, slowly to...