It is scarcely necessary for me to express the gratification I have received from your letter of the 24th ult. I rejoice that the resolutions of our Legislature have been received in the spirit in which they were adopted, that they have been productive of some benefit to your mother; and I...
My time of life my affairs being much embarressed & my health precarious all admonish of the necessity & propriety of makeing & publishing my last will and testament which I do by these presents revoking all former wills. I vest in my sons Robert Carter Wilson Cary & John Smith...
Mr. Jefferson’s Debts—At the time of Mr. Jefferson’s death, his debts amounted to $107,000. This we know, from having seen a list, accompanied by unquestionable evidence of its correctness. From the Sales of personal estate, in January, 1827, and the funds which came into his hands, his executor...
$545 On or before the first day of January 1830. We Sydney R Pellet & Ira Pellet of Albemarle county, Virginia, promise to pay or cause to be paid unto THOMAS J. RANDOLPH, Executor of Thomas Jefferson, dec. his heirs or assigns, the just and full sum of Five hundred and forty five dollars...
A difficulty having been raised in the payment to me of a sum of between $26 & 2700 which I had been lead to to expect with perfect certainty to day and this difficulty as I believe raised with a view to extort from me an usurious deduction I am unable to pay in full my note of $5000 due at...
I am very sorry that there should have been any difficulty about your Mammy’s going to live with James. I had promised Priscilla that she might go with her husband when I broke up house keeping, before I knew what James arrangments would be; and having once pledged my word I do not feel at...
A requisition was made on me by your board some short time since to pay on the 5th of July next $2000 of the debt which I owe to your bank on acct of my fathers and grand fathers estates. In consequence of the bonds for the sale of the property falling due on the first of January next and the...
If, in the long years that have passed since we received your parting embrace, you have not had any earnest of my promise on that occasion, it is to be ascribed rather to the conviction that you already had more than a fair load of correspondence with our half of your double country, than to any...
This indenture made this the first day of November one thousand eight-hundred & thirty one, between Thomas J. Randolph and Martha Randolph of the County of Albemarle and state of Virginia of the one part and James T. Barclay of the county and State aforesaid, of the other part, witnesseth...
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...
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...
Every day life at Monticello The establishment at Monticello was regulated very much on the European plan. Amusements of various kinds such as, hunting, fishing, driving, & riding on horseback, were furnished the guests who generally dispersed after breakfast—Mr Jefferson retired to his...
Faithful to my promise, dearest —, I shall spend an hour every Sunday in writing all my childish recollections of my dear grandfather, which are sufficiently distinct to relate to you. My memory seems crowded with them, and they have the vividness of realities; but all are trifles in themselves,...
… Mr. Jefferson had suffered for several years before his death, from a diarrhœa, which he concealed from his family, lest it might give them uneasiness. Not aware of it, I was surprised, in conversation with him, in March, 1826, to hear him in speaking of an event likely to occur about midsummer...
No. 3. I have found it impossible to resume my pen until now when I have an hour or so of leisure before turning my attention to the daily cares & duties which admit of no postponement. The decay of my grandfather’s fortune was owing, as you know, to various causes, but to none more than the...
… The house at Poplar Forest was very pretty and pleasant. It was of brick, one story in front, and, owing to the falling of the ground, two in the rear. It was an exact octagon, with a centre-hall twenty feet square, lighted from above. This was a beautiful room, and served as a dining-room....
No. 4.Life at Poplar Forest. Randall’s Life of Jefferson. vol. 3d P. 342. “Mr Jefferson had once owned I believe something like ten thousand acres of fertile land, (to which the name of Poplar Forest was given,) in the county of Bedford near Lynchburg in Campbell Co. I do not know when he began...
Sent to Mr Randall with alterations or additions which I no longer remember, but the whole letter omitted in Mr Randall’s book No. 5. This letter is a continuation of the one of the 18h and I begin by correcting several small, unimportant inaccuracies. My grandfather’s visits to Bedford were...
I have received your letter of the 25th, and but being confined to the house by an attack of measles from which I am not entirely recovered, some little time may elapse before I can comply with your request in reference to the Publisher. It will give me very great pleasure to aid you in any way...
I have been prevented from writing, my dear Mr Randall, by the illness of one of my sons, and the absence of a confidential domestic who has for years been a sort of right hand on all household matters. I resume my pen uncertain how soon I may be compelled to lay it down. You ask for the...
I know not where to begin in reply to your enquiries, my dear Mr Randall, for many subjects press upon me at once. I will therefore take up the one to which I have already alluded. You say in one of your letters “From some remark that dropped from Wormeley, a former slave in your family, as in...
Enclosed you have part of a letter, which I began a week ago. Sudden and severe cold which confined me some days to my bed, prevented me from going on with it: I send it in it’s unfinished state. Yours of the 22nd with it’s enclosures, reached me yesterday. I am not strong enough to write much to...
For the details of Mr Jefferson’s funeral I must refer you to my brothers and sisters. I was not present nor was my sister Cornelia. She was with me in Boston when in July 1826, we received a summons to hasten on to Virginia if we wished to see our grandfather alive. We set off immediately but...
The House at Monticello, and the Garden. Mr Jefferson made great changes in the house at Monticello after his return from Europe in 1789. He got new ideas of architecture during his residence abroad, and the buildings at Monticello were completely re-modelled under their influence. The house...