I received your letter yesterday & tho’ I have very little time tonight I would not omit answering it for the world, least you should have a pretext for not sending me your address in Virginia, & thereby lay me under the necessity of putting a period to our correspondance; before I thank...
We are in such confusion ever since nine ’clock this morning, when the Duke decided to go to England tomorrow, which we should have been otherwise glad of, if we had not left you at Paris; the idea of parting with you hurts us more than we can describe, but as we have a great deal to do, we think...
We arrived here to day between two and three, and expect to sail at twelve ’clock at night, so we shall get to London tomorrow, where I intend writing you a long letter; I hope to hear from you by the next Courier, as that will give me some consolation now we cannot meet; we regret you if...
We arrived here Wednesday night having spent two days at Sir Horace Mann’s near Canterbury, where there was a Cricket Match, the house quite full of company, and very few people we knew, added to being very much tired with our journey, made us very glad to get away, I am sure if you had been...
It is impossible for me to discribe, how happy I feel at hearing from you, and what ever pleasure I have felt at seeing my friends in England, it has not been equal to the pain of a seperation from you, which if not eternal, is so distant, as to afford me very little hope, but I will no longer...
My dear Miss Jefferson I hope will not accuse me of neglect in not having thanked her for her letter & the canes which she has been so good as to send me. the truth is we have been in the country, where there was nothing happenned to entertain me sufficiently to write a very dull answer in...
I have this moment received your letter and take the first opportunity of thanking you for it, and am afraid you will still be set out before this reaches you, you cannot imagine how sincerely we all lament your departure to America, for my part it seems as a fresh seperation, for while you were...
I have just received my dear Miss Jefferson’s kind letter which surprized very agreeably as I had seen some time ago in the newspapers, that you were at Cowes, we have frequently thought of you since, imagining you were on the sea by this time—I do not think we shall be wrong in our conclusions—I...
Mercredi 4 Novembre 1789 enfin Ma Chere je vais aujourd’hui Commencer Mon journal, je n’ai pas eu Le Courage de L’entreprendre plutot, ainsi tu peux t’attendre que Cette Lettre sera 4 fois plus mal ecrite que Les autres puisque je ne pourrai pas me ressouvenir de tout en ordre pour Commencer par...
Samedi 7 novembre 1789 je viens de recevoir une Lettre de Curson ou elle me repond que son mari est outré de mes soupcons, quelle se brouillera avec moi si je refuse d’aller passer un an avec elle L’été prochain qu’elle ne me veut pas Cet hiver parscequ’elle n’ira pas à Londre, mais quelle...
16 15 Novembre 1789 voici un billet d’enterrement du Clergé qui Court paris. M. vous êtes priés d’assister au Convoi et enterrement de très haut très puissant et très magnifique seigneur Clergé. décédé dans La salle de L’assemblée Nationale Le jour des morts 1789. son Corps sera porté par mrs...
It was not my intention, when I wrote to you last, to offend you, disgust you, or even to give you any uneasiness even, for a moment but I find, from a paragraph in your letter: which I shall not quote to you; and to your leaving Tuckahoe in a hurry, and in bad Weather and going still Farther...
15 Decembre 1789 Mon journal n’est pas bien exact Comme tu vois Mais en verité ma chere C’est que je suis fort embarassée, tantot je pense que je t’ennuye en te racontant des choses qui ne sont pas plus plaisantes et que Ces details ne t’interessent pas du tout, ensuite je me ressouviens de nos...
It is impossible for me to express how much pleasure your kind letter gave me, which I intended to have answered last month, but was unfortunately prevented, I was quite unhappy to think you were in England without a possibility of our meeting, but I am now in expectation of hearing of your safe...
Lundi 21 decembre 1789= je t’ai dit Ma Chere que j’avois fait deux Conquêtes L’autre jour, je n’avois parlé qu’a une et de choses fort indifferentes, Lançon vient de M’apprendre une fort bonne Chose C’est qu’il se tuoit à me faire des Compliments sans que je m’en doutasse.=je t’ai dit plusieurs...
30 Decembre 1789— pour actuellement je ne peux pas dire qu’on ne me fait pas de Compliments j’en suis accablée par Le vte De mirabeau reellement Ma Chere tu ne peux te faire d’idée Combien il est aimable, Ce n’est point a Cause qu’il s’adresse à moi, mais vraiement il est impossible de dire de...
I was most extremely concern’d to find by a letter I received from Botidoux, that my dear Jefferson had been so much indisposed—illness has prevented my writing to inquire after you—but though I have hitherto been silent on that head, I trust you will easily credit the assurance of my having been...
Though I wrote to My Dear Jefferson but last Post, Yet I avail myself of a leisure moment, to thank her for a very friendly letter I received yesterday, & for the trouble she has so kindly taken to procure me a Cloak & etc—Believe me my dear Girl, I am truly sensible of the many marks of...
I am sensible my Dr Jefferson does not think it a trouble to oblige a friend therefore trust she will excuse ye liberty I am going to take in requesting she will execute ye following commissions for me: will you send for Mlle Bertrand & enquire what skins are ye most in fashion for Pelises, ...
I am extremely obliged to My Dear Jefferson, for the trouble she has taken about my Cloak—there is one part of her letter I do not perfectly understand, I will transcribe it—l’angola n’est pas tout a fait aussi beau, mais beaucoup moins cher et plus durable que le Cigne—I imagine you mean exactly...
I am very much obliged to you for the ring, which I shall value for your sake and I never will part with it. I am much hurt not to see you once more before we go, but Mr Jefferson likewise told the Duke it was better not, so we must submit: the waiscoat with the enclosed note is from the Duke, he...
premier janvier 178 1790= il y a un an ma chere que Nous etions ensemble. Comme Les tems sont Changés, autant je M’amusois autant je m’ennuye actuellement. si je voulois t’ecrire tout Ce que je pense de toi Le chagrin que je ressens de ton absence et Combien je t’aime, je finirois par t’ennuyer...
Samedi 2 janvier 1790= je vais te dire Comme Mde de sevigné que je te donne en Cent a deviner La Nouvelle que j’ai à t’apprendre. une religieuse s’est enfuie hier—devinerois tu qui encore? Sœur Catherine, elle est sortie par Le tour de La Cuisine qu’elle a brisé à une heure et demie de L’après...
Lundi 6 6. janvier 1790 Ce papier de L’ami du peuple a fait un bruit terrible dans La Maison don Frenelay a resté hier jusqu’à neuf heures du soir a faire un memoire pour envoyer à mr Bailly, on a aussi envoyé Un parent de sœur Madeleine chez mr marat pour Lui exposer les faits et La prier de ne...
8 janvier 1790— L’histoire de Ce sentinelle que je t’ai ecrite L’autre jour a bien changé C’est Ce sentinelle Lui même qui avoit fait Mis Le poignard dans sa guerite, il avoit ses affaires fort Mal arrangées et C’etoit surement L’espoir d’une recompence qui L’avoit Porté a cette fourberie, il a...