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Francis W. Gilmer to Dabney Carr, 15 Jan. 1821

I have just received your letter apprizing me of your resolution of being in Albemarle soon after the 20th. The more the pity that I cannot join you. Mrs. R. left Richmond near a week ago and is now at Tuckahoe. She was much admired as she ever will be where she is seen. I was at many parties...

Inventory of Wilson Cary Nicholas's Personal Estate, 13 Jan. 1821

In obedience of the annexed order to us directed by the worshipfull Court of Albemarle we have this day (the 13th January 1821) proceeded to make out an inventory & appraisement of all the personal estate of Colo Wilson Cary Nicholas Deceased or so much as was shewn us by the Administrators...

Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 28 Jan. 1821

Your Brother and Self occupy so constantly my thoughts that if I am more than a month without hearing from you I begin to be uneasy and find solace in writing to you it is perhaps puting you to unnecessary expence and these are hard times and Money scarse but while I have Money on credit I can...

Etienne St. Julien de Tournillon to Nicholas Philip Trist, 26 Jan. 1821

Enfin, mon cher trist, j’ai le plaisir de Vous annoncer, par cette présente, L’envoi De Votre Sabre et De Votre épée, par le navire phoebé ann, ci-Joint Vous En trouverez le Connaissement: comme La Caisse qui renferme ces objets a été Sujette depuis Son départ De France à plusieurs inconvénients;...

Joseph C. Cabell to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 31 Jan. 1821

I thank you for your favor by Capt: Perry and wish I had time to write you a more full & satisfactory answer. My time is now entirely occupied. It is painful to me to tell you that clouds of difficulty roll over our horizon & darken our prospects. Yet I hope that we shall be able to...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Mantz, 1 Feb. 1821 [Quote]

Th: Jefferson recieved yesterday Mr Mantz’s present of very handsomely dressed leather, for which he begs leave to return him his thanks, and to express the pleasure he recieves from new discoveries and advances in the ar useful arts. those who by che new processes cheapen the comforts of life...

Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 9 Feb. 1821

Your letter of the 25th Jany reach’d me on the 7th I had been expecting to hear from you and began to be anxious, not because I did not get a letter as soon as I wish’d but the severity of the winter made me fear for your health in that bleak Northerly situation where exposures are apt to create...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 15 Feb. 1821 [Quote]

I learn with deep affliction that nothing is likely to be done for our University this year. so near as it is to the shore that one shove more would land it there, I had hoped that would be given, and that we should open with the next year an institution on which the fortunes of our country...

Mary Trist Jones Tournillon to Nicholas Philip Trist, 28 Feb. 1821

After experiencing great anxiety about you and Browse we were made happy last week by receiving four letters, one from your Brother of the 6th of January, and three from you, dated the 24th and 28 of December, and the 12th of January. Yours were some what in a mutilated state, however we made out...

Mary Trist Jones Tournillon to Nicholas Philip Trist, 28 Feb. 1821

After experiencing great anxiety about you and Browse we were made happy last week by receiving four letters, one from your Brother of the 6th of January, and three from you, dated the 24th and 28 of December, and the 12th of January. Yours were some what in a mutilated state, however we made out...

Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Mann Randolph, 1 Mar. 1821

On casting my eye over the paper respecting the poor school system I find an error in the case of Nelson County. There is no draft for 1820. Whereas I am sure the county did draw—and it is manifest that this must have been the case—because so great a balance could not otherwise exist. Might it...

Thomas Mann Randolph to Joseph C. Cabell, 2 Mar. 1821

My desire to keep myself from being involved in any error which the extreme hurry might produce alone induced me to make known that I took no part in the Tuesday meeting of the Board of the Literary Fund. It would have given me much pleasure to have aided in any way, in or out of Board, in...

Francis W. Gilmer to Dabney Carr, 4 Mar. 1821

You are in the right when you say man is not wholly a mean and selfish being. your friendship to me is a practical proof. Indeed I can say of you, as Louis 16th did to Dupont, “you are ever at hand when there is need of you.” Never did I more require the balm of your cordiality. The death of poor...

Alexander Garrett to Joseph C. Cabell, 5 Mar. 1821

Your favour of the 1st instant I have just recieved, for which accept my thanks, we had (through Mr Dyer) learnt the passage of the University bill, I assure you it gives no small portion of joy to Albemarle. our little friend in Richmond has already written up on the subject and takes care to...

Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 9 Mar. [1821]

I must write to you my dear Mother in a short and hurried manner, for breakfast is nearly ready and my letter must be finished immediately after that Burwell may take it with him to the office; but short & hurried as it may be it will serve to let you know that I am well and amused—since the...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 9 Mar. 1821 [Quote]

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. that body, like Gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, & unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulphing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. the recent...

Jane H. Nicholas Randolph to Sarah E. Nicholas , 12 Mar. 1821

I have been intending, and intending, to write to you every sunday ever since I got your letter, but something has always prevented me, for which, I am very sory sorry, and will promise that I will never neglect you again, if you answer this letter with one of your delightful long letters, that...