Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [ca. Feb.–Mar. 1816]
I wrote to you by the last post, but instead of delivering my letter to th ...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 2 Feb. 1816 [Quote]
man … feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day; when there shall not be a man in the state who will not be a member of some one of it’s councils, great or small, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner...
Edward Govan to Dabney C. Terrell, 4 Feb. 1816
Your letter came safely to hand I have paid all your debdts as far as the money wil go Dr Foulk and Sam brought in larger bills than I expected. Machir has not the money he owes you but he will get it soone. that will pay all but the 5 for the diploma. I will get the diploma and Machir will take...
Mary Trist Jones Tournillon to Nicholas P. Trist, 4 Feb. 1816
I should have answered your letter of the 22d sooner, but I did not receive it until the day we were moveing; although it has always been my wish that you should study law, yet you must be sensible my dear Child I only desired to advise y ...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 7 Feb. [1816?]
You will percieve my dear mother that the enclosed letters were written, to send by Mr Carr; he has been leaving Washington every day for more than a week and I was so foolish as to keep my letters for him instead of sending them by the post. I am afraid not hearing from me for such a length of...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 7–17 Feb. 1816]
I have recieved your letter of the 20th in which you mention for the first time, the accident which happened to you last month. oh how sincerely I thank you for not permitting the girls to tell me of it for I should for it would have made me very miserable. even now I cannot help feeling...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 17 Feb. [1816]
I thank you most sincerely my dearest Mother for writing as ...
Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 18 Feb. 1816
The fears that you expressed of my having scolded a great deal at your not answering my letter by Brother Jefferson were groundless. I assure you I was not so unreasonable as to expect you to write when you were sick or busy you mention’d in your last letter to Brother that you had heard of Mama...
Virginia General Assembly Resolution on the subject of a system of Public Education, 24 Feb. 1816
Be it resolved, by the General Assembly, that the President and Directors of the Literary fund be requested to digest, and report to the next General Assembly, a system of public Education, calculated to give effect to the appropriations made to that object by the Legislature, heretofore, and...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 28 Feb. [1816]
I have only time to write to one of you, and as you were the first from whom I recieved a letter, you must also be the first to get an answer. Washington is very gay and I go so much into company that I have scarcely a moment to devote to writing or reading. I have had severally books lent me...
Dabney C. Terrell to Martha J. Terrell, 1 Mar. 1816
I received your most affectionate letter a few day before I left Baltimore and should have answered it immediately, but as I had writen to Aunt Carr a few days before I thought it would be better to write to you from the Capes. We left Baltimore 5 days ago and on account of adverse winds have...
Mary Trist Jones Tournillon to Elizabeth Trist, 3 Mar. 1816
We moved here last month to the plantation which Mr Tournillon purchased, it is six miles from the River and thought to be a healthy situation, he is to give $30,000 payable in ten years for 1,000 acres of land and eight Negro Men, there is a Saw Mill on it which yeilded $4000 annually to the...
Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 24 Mar. 1816
For the first week after the Birth of your daughter Jane was uncommonly well, she then had a fever for twenty four hours, after which it left her—& she has been since threatened with sore breasts. This evening the Doctor says she has a smart fever & thinks she has caught some cold. She...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 26 Mar. 1816]
Your letter my dear Mother caused me a great deal of surprize and uneasiness. I recieved the letter containing the draughts four days after date, and wrote by return of post, to you, to acknowledge their reciept. by the ...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [ca. 26 March 1816]
I have recieved Papa’s letter and and enclosing the order on the Cashier of the Bank of Columbia and yours with the 55$. this is merely to inform you that the business shall be executed as quick and as well as possible and that I...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 Mar. 1816
I have followed your directions in executing the commission with which you entrusted me. the notes are enclosed to Mama under cover to Grandpapa by this mail. they are of the Columbia bank, I could not get Baltimore notes without paying a premium for them. Mr Gales’s & Mr Milligan’s accounts...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [Apr. 1816]
I cannot help feeling very uneasy at not hearing from you my dearest Mother. I have recieved but one letter from home since I left Washington and that was written by Virginia before you knew of my intention to visit Philadelphia. I am as you may suppose delighted with this city. I have recieved...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [Apr. 1816]
I cannot express to you my dearest Mother the delight your letter gave me. I had not heard from you for such a length of time that my spirits were beginning to fail and I was preparing with a heavy heart for a splendid party at Mr Lisle’s to night when your welcome packet arrived and dissipated...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 Apr. 1816 [Quote]
I would strongly recommend to their consideration, instead of one immense building, to have a small one for every professorship, arranged at proper distances around a square, or rather three sides of a square, to admit extension, connected by a piazza so that they may go dry from one school to...
Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 Apr. [1816]
I arrived here the day before yesterday after a pleasant journey in the steam boat and met with a most hospitable reception from Mr & Mrs Bache. as I have not time to put you “au fait des choses” I will merely tell you that Mrs Bache is a charming woman and that I have met with the most...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Note for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, enclosed in Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 Apr. 1816 [Quote]
the most sacred of the duties of a government, to do equal & impartial justice to all it’s citizens.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 8 Apr. 1816 [Quote]
I regret that distance separates us so widely. an hour of conversation would be worth a volume of letters. but we must take things as they come.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 8 Apr. 1816 [Quote]
I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. my hopes indeed sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Etienne St. Julien de Tournillon to Nicholas Philip Trist, 16 Apr. 1816
Je Suis Enchanté, mon cher trist, que Vous Soyez Devenu plus raisonnable et que vous ayez abandonné vos projéts gigantesques d’Embrasser une profession pour laquelle, je pense, vous n’êtes jamais né, et qui d’ailleurs n’offre dans tous les tems que L’aspect de toutes les vicissitudes de La Vie....
Elizabeth Trist to Catharine Wistar Bache, 24 Apr. 1816
I am at a loss to account for your long Silence, I am unwilling to ascribe it to design, for I have had too many proofs of your goodness to allow that Idea to take hold on my mind, for my pride wou’d then take the alarm and oblige me to relinquish what I have not the power to retain and altho I...