Extract from Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 [Quote]
Jefferson himself, the greatest democrat whom the democracy of America has as yet produced.
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ann C. Morris, 22 Mch. 1835
I have been long owing you a letter dear Sister but the state of my family has been such this winter that I have not had a moment to do any thing that I wished, and as for writing I believe I have not written three letters since I left Albemarle although two marriages have taken place in the...
Virginia J. Randolph Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 10–20 Apr. 1835
I despatched a letter to you yesterday, dearest Nicholas, and in the evening Mr. Van Buren informed us of the defeat of Brother Jeff. & Mr. Rives. The news came to him in a letter from Mr. W. Rives, who says the belief is that when a scrutiny of the polls takes place the number of bad votes...
Extract from Martin Van Buren to the Citizens of Philadelphia, 11 Apr. 1835 [Quote]
It is not, I assure you, possible that any one can cherish a higher respect for the memory of Mr Jefferson or be more sincerely disposed to do it honor than myself. He was the undisputed founder of our political School; & whilst we sincerely respect his principles & in good faith,...
Draft Will of Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 Apr. [1835]
Washington April 18th 2 o’clock in the morning Friday Saturday To my five daughters I wish to bequeath my property in the funds. To Benjamin & Lewis the two negroes now in Benjamins possession. my five remaining negroes Emily I wish liberated as soon as you break up house keeping here; Martha...
Extract from Edgar Allan Poe’s Review of an Address, on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas [after Apr. 1836] [Quote]
The appalling weight of responsibility of those who serve their country in such an expedition, is strikingly illustrated by the instructions given to Lewis and Clarke, in 1803, by President Jefferson ... The sage, who had conceived and matured the plan of the expedition to the far west, in his...
Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge to Virginia J. Randolph Trist, 24 May 1835
You will have heard from Mr Barrell and perhaps Dr Lovell, my dear Virginia, that we are so far on our way back to Washington. We shall be detained here until Tuesday morning and even then can get no farther than Trenton ...
Cornelia J. Randolph to Charles C. Gratiot, 26 May 1835
Eugenia is a slave formerly my property & purchased from me by Capt. Mordicai two years ago. She informs me that you requested I should write the above certificate.
Richard Bache: Pass for Travel of Eugenia Hemings Marks to Philadelphia, 26 May 1835
Eugenia, a yellow woman, the wife of Peter Marks, is known by the subscriber to be the property of Capt. A. Mordecai, of the U.S. Army, and it is believed from arrangements made by Capt. M. when last on here, and from conversation with him, that he wishes the Woman to join him in Philadelphia.
Charles C. Gratiot: Pass for Travel of Eugenia Hemings Marks to Philadelphia, with Instructions upon Arrival, 2 June 1835
The bearer Euginia, described in the Bill of sale of Cornelia J. Randolph to A. Mordecai in the possession of her Husband Peter Marks a Couloured Man has the pass of her Master to join him at Frankfort Penn which with the bill of sale were sent to him to be put in her possession. The woman has an...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ann C. Morris, 4 Dec. 1835
I have long been intending to write dear Sister but have been so closely employed as to leave me not a moment. I sincerely regretted seeing so little of you, but Mr Coolidge’s short stay and approaching absence with the task he had so much at heart that I should break up house keeping and live...
Nicholas P. Trist to Andrew Jackson, 18 Dec. 1835
On my way to the Steam boat at Baltimore, yesterday morning, I called at the post-office, where I found your kind passport to the confidence of your friends in the Southern country. I do not expect to have any time for making acquaintance with any body in my route; but I shall feel more...
Extract from Edgar Allan Poe’s Review of Francis L. Hawks’s Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America, Mar. 1836 [Quote]
It is with no little astonishment that we have seen Dr. Hawks accused of illiberality in his few remarks upon “that noble monument of liberty,” the Act for the Establishment of Religious Freedom. If there is any thing beyond simple justice in his observations we, for our own parts, cannot...
Will of Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 Jan. 1836
I Martha Randolph formerly of Albemarle but now a temporary resident of Boston, being of sound mind, and in my ordinary state of health, make my last will and testament in manner and form as follows I give to my daughters Ellen Cornelia Virginia and Mary & Septimia the debt due me by the...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Benjamin F. Randolph, 27 Jan. [1836]
I have no doubt dear Benjamen but that you have made the best possible arrangements in hiring our servants. I have two objects particularly in view paramount to every other, to ensure their being kindly treated and in families where they would be in the least danger from local situation of being...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Elizabeth Anderson, 4 Apr. 1836
Many thanks Dear Madam for the welcome intelligence of our dear Elisabeth’s safety it is a great relief to me to know that her hour of trial is past, and that she is now enjoying the sweet reward of so much pain and danger. with pleasure I take my place in the...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ann C. Morris, 5 Apr. 1836
I had been for some time intending to write to you dear Sister when I received your letter. I sympathise deeply and sincerely with you in your late sufferings, but we have both arrived at the winter season of life, with all it’s infirmities, so greatly encreased by the absence of warm weather,...
Andrew Jackson to Meriwether Lewis Randolph, 1 May 1836, enclosed in Elizabeth A. Martin Randolph (Donelson) to Meriwether Lewis Randolph, 16 May 1836
Your letter of the 13th ultimo, came safe to hand, giving me the pleasing intelligence of your happy meeting with your dear Elisabeth & of her presenting you with a fine son, and your honoring me with his name—for this signal mark of your kindness & respect I tender to you my grateful...
Elizabeth A. Martin Randolph (Donelson) to Meriwether Lewis Randolph, 16 May [1836]
I have given to our Dear boy the blessing and kiss of his Dear Uncle, who is without doubt one of the kindest and greatest of men, this letter was enclosed in one of the kindest letters of condolence to my Father, and left, unsealed for me to read if you had gone to Arkansas—Oh my beloved Lewis...
James T. Barclay and Julia Ann Barclay to Uriah P. Levy: Indenture for Sale of Monticello, 20 May 1836
This indenture made this 20 day of May 20th 1836 between James T Barclay of the County of Albemarle in the state of Virginia and Julia Ann his wife of the one part and Uriah P Levy of the county and state aforesaid, of the other part witnesseth that the said James T Barclay and Julia Ann his wife...
Andrew Jackson to Meriwether Lewis Randolph, 6 July 1836
Congress having, at last, adjourned it gives me a moment to acknowledge your letter of the 8th of May last—This I would have done sooner but I was waiting information from home, of what had been done, if any thing, with my the studs, before I could reply to this part of your letter—I am still...
Dolley Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Aug. 1836
Mrs Madison presents her best respects and regard to Mr Jefferson Randolph, and offers in the words of her departed Husband the relic he bequeathed him. In executing his Will she fully participates in the sentiments which guided the disposition he made of it. “I desire the Gold Mounted walking...
Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ann C. Morris, 17 Aug. 1836
It is a long time dear Sister since a letter passed between us, at whose door the ommission lies I do not know, but certain I am no blame should attach to either, for there never can exist any feelings between us deserving so harsh a feeling. My health which has been very miserable this spring...
George Wythe Randolph to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 23 Aug. 1836
I arrived here some time ago from the Mediteranean in a Merchant ship, having returned to prepare for my approaching examination which comes on shortly, as I did’nt know where Mama was I have not written to her yet, I wish you would give me Lewis’s direction when you write as I should like to...
Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 5 Sept. 1836
you have no doubt heard from George but lest you should not I send this letter which I have this moment received. Virginia left Newport on the 1st & I shall return to Boston by the 14th. I am as heartily tired of Newport as I ever was of any spot upon Earth. It is hard to say whether the...