It gave me great concern to have been prevented by ill health from attending the last meeting of the agricultural society, but I requested Mr: Garnett to explain my views to you, as I presume he did. Indeed they were chiefly explained in my letters and inclosures to Doctor Adams. And nothing for...

Shakespear, in Hamlet, makes Polonius give his son Laertes some very good advice, of which I send you a part in his own words, this I do because I think you want it, as all of the sentence can’t apply to you I make a mark under that which can “The friends thou hast, and their adoption tryd tried,...

Your letter of the 22d of September produced in me a variety of sensations, delight at the proof of friendship Mrs Randolph and her family have given you; and melancholy at the possibility that in a few years you may be more indifferent to their good opinion, for I agree with Mrs R— that a change...

I was expecting a letter from you for some time but my expectations were not realized until yesterday, when by the same mail I received your letters of Novr 6th & 9th My Grandmother had been rendered uneasy by your letter from New York in which you complained of the head ach, rheumatism &...

“I have made it a rule, said he, whenever in my power, to avoid becoming the draughtsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body. I took my lesson from an incident which I will relate to you. when I was a journeyman printer, one of my companions, an apprentice Hatter ... was about to open shop...

We arrived here last night evening about sun-set, we found the roads, ruff, and bad, as long as were in Albemarle, but afterwards, they were the greater part of the way very fine, we got to Mrs Tinsleys, by four Oclock, not in the least fatigued, my cholick soon evaparated, but poor Sall, had not...

I hope my beloved cousin does not impute my long silence to neglect, for I assure her that not a single day has past since I last saw her without my thinking of her, and wishing for the time when we shall again meet; but I have been so much engaged with company and other things, that I have...

Margret had got this far in her second letter, but could never get a syllable farther, and as I think it a pity to finish waste the paper (money being very scarce) I will finish it to you. I suppose mama told you what a pleasant journey we had down, & how much we were delighted with the sofas...

I Nelson Barksdale of Albemarle county and Ludlow Brannum of Louisa county do promise to pay Pallison Boxley of Louisa county the sum of Six Hundred and Seventy dollars current money of virginia on or before the 25th day of Decmr 1819 it being for the hire of Four negro men two boys and a woman...

your letter, which I received last Monday; Made me quite happy, I had been in terror, least the disturbance which I knew you would receive from our dear little Patt, would be more than you could bare, I am surpris’d that you should whip her, I think I informed you that whipping, always put her in...

Mr John M. Perry is fully autherised to Conclude the settlement with you for the Brick work done by me this year at the Central Colage therefore any settlement made by him shall be binding on me

We received yours of the 14th inst. after four days passage: and I am surprized to hear that you had not received my letter addressed to you or another of prior date addressed by Ragland and me to all the Cadets thro’ ...