Permit me to introduce to You my much esteemed friend Col. Callava, late Governor of this province. In him, you will find an Honorable High minded, gallant soldier, & gentleman. As a Virginian, I abhor the cruelty, & despotism with which, he has been treated by Gen Jackson, and which I...

and even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. in short, the flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776. have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the...

As Lilburne sets out tomorrow, I have laid aside Caleb Williams which I count among the most interesting novels I ever read, to write to you, to tell you we have arriv’d safe & sound & in health, without any accident on the road or any great fatigue from the journey, which is almost every...

Received of Mr H. B. Trist One Hundred & Thirty Eight Dollars 25/100 in full of all Accounts to this date

Having been against our expectations detained at this place, my dearest Mother, I my first care is to perform my promise of writing to let you know that we have advanced so far in safety, and have little doubt of reaching Washington under the same favorable auspices. Nicholas seems perfectly well...

a line from my good old friends is like balm to my soul.

The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia ... Respectfully representeth ... That the value of science to a republican people, the security it...

I have always observed my dearest Mother, that your letters have a secret charm, a spell, by which vapours and blue devils are speedily expelled; in whatever mood I may be, to hear from you is like a dose of æther to an hysterical patient; I am at once animated revived, & things & persons...

In answer to yours of a few days date ago on the subjec of hireing slavs. I concluded when I offerd to take seventy dollars round for my four men that it was to put an end to the business and sent to You Mr Maupins note to me to let you see his offer—it is true he priced Wilson 10$ lower than the...

It is really so long since I wrote last that I am ashamed of addressing one against whom I have sinned beyond the hope of pardon, but as in withholding them, I deprive you of nothing but repetitions of a truth that you already know, the scarcity of my letters ought to add some what to their value...

Sonnet to Mr Jefferson written in 1822 Immortal man! not only of thine own The best and greatest, but of every age; Thou whose meridian strength was prompt to wage For liberty the war against a throne! When thy gigantic mind had plac’d thee lone And high, thou didst controul the wildest rage Of...

Your letter from Cincinati, after having loitered 20 days on the road found me still amongst the mountains, from which I most sincerely congratulate you to have made your escape before the cold weather set in. the month of december was one of unusual discomfort here, and must have been much worse...