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Jane H. Nicholas Randolph to Cary Ann Nicholas Smith, 27 June 1826

I received your affectionate letter last saturday & cant’ express to you how much gratified I am by it; nothing is so gratifying to me as to hear from my friends expressions of interest in me, which I never think of but with the greatest pleasure, & return with the truest attachment;...

Jane H. Nicholas Randolph to Cary Ann Nicholas Smith, 27 June 1826

I received your affectionate letter last saturday & cant’ express to you how much gratified I am by it; nothing is so gratifying to me as to hear from my friends expressions of interest in me, which I never think of but with the greatest pleasure, & return with the truest attachment;...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, [2 July 1826]

After passing a very good night; this morning my dear grandfather began to give unequivocal indication of approaching dissolution. he sank rapidly for some time and is has since remaining remained stationary bearly sensible, occasionally, we look from hour to hour to a close to the scene.My...

Alexander Garrett to Evelina Bolling Garrett, 4 July 1826

Mr Jefferson is no more, he breathed his last 10 minutes before 1 Oclock today allmost without a struggle. no one here but Col. Carr & myself, both of us ignorant of shrouding, neither never having done it, ourselves or seen it done, we have done the best we could, and I hope all is right....

Extract from the Ana of Robley Dunglison [after 4 July 1826] [Quote]

At all times dignified, and by no means easy of approach to all, he was generally communicative to those on whom he could rely; and in his own house was occasionally free in his speech even to imprudence to those of whom he did not know enough to be satisfied that an improper use might not be...

Nicholas P. Trist to Joseph Coolidge, 4 July 1826

I’ve missed the last mail or two, from a desire to communicate something definitive, which some little fluctuations that have occurred rendered impossible. There is no longer any doubt. Unless one chance to a hundred thousand, or a Million, may be ground for doubt. He has been dying since...

Henry H. Worthington to Reuben B. Hicks, 5 July 1826

Your favour of the 31st of May last should have been acknowledged before this but for the presure of my studies. I have had more to do here of late than during any other part of the session. Most of the proffessors intending to go to the springs this summer & wishing to make up the time...

Andrew K. Smith's Account of the Funeral of Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1826

Jefferson. Mr. Andrew K. Smith, of the General Land Office, having noticed the death of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Virginia, sends the Washington Republican the following interesting personal remembrances of the deceased and of Jefferson. They constitute a valuable contribution to the...

Thomas Mann Randolph to Nicholas P. Trist, 6 July 1826

I have succeeded in stopping the letter which has thrown Mrs R into such agitation. I send it for your perusal on condition that the Executor be not permitted to read See it, or hear it read.” “as I do not consider myself a member of the family at all, and cannot reside at Monticello again, I do...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph to James Madison, 8 July 1826

Dr Dunglison is the bearer of a cane a legacy left you by my dear grandfather, as a token of that intimate friendship which had so long existed between you. The Dr can give you more fully than I could do in a letter any details interesting to a friend, which you might desire to hear. May I ask...

William Matthews to John H. Cocke, 10 July 1826

I addressed Mr Jefferson a short time previous to his death to know what arrangements had been made with respect to substitutes for arms for the students at the University—he stated in his letter to me that no definitive order had as yet been given, because of the doutfullness of the funds,...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Dabney S. Carr, 11 July 1826

Will you desire Lewis to send me a coat, thin black waistcoat (I have a thick one) a pair of thin and another thick pantaloons, all black. likewise a suit of mourning for Trist by measure enclosed. The most awkward part of the commission to yourself will be standing security untill pay day. tell...

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 14 July 1826

I received by the last mail yours of the 8th inst: The Article bequeathed to me by your Grandfather, had been delivered by Dr Dunglison, and received with all the feelings due to such a token of the place I held in the friendship of one, whom I so much revered & loved, when living, and whose...

Resolutions of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences on the Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 15 July 1826, enclosed in Asbury Dickins to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27

“In testimony of the profound respect entertained by the Institute for the illustrious memory of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two of the founders of the Republic, who descended to the tomb on the fiftieth anniversary of its independence; who, during a long life successfully devoted to their...

William Matthews to John H. Cocke, 15 July 1826

I addressed a letter to you on 10th inst which I expect you did not receive I therefore take the liberty of doing it again. A short time previous to Mr Jeffersons death I addressed him enquiring what arrangements had been made with respect to substitutes for arms for the students at the...

Edward Everett to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 22 July 1826

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has received, with great sensibility, the communication of the 11th inst. made by you, on behalf of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, upon the occasion of the decease of our late venerable associate, John Adams. The Fellows of the Academy...

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