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John Hemmings to Septimia A. Randolph (Meikleham), 28 Aug. 1825

your Letter came to me on the 23th and hapey was I to embreasit to see you take it upon you self to writ to me and Let me know how your grand Pare was Glad am i to hear that he is no worst dear I hope you ar well and all the famely giv my Love to all your brothars Gorg with Randolph speculy i...

Nicholas P. Trist to Virginia J. Randolph Trist, 30 Aug. 1825

You will receive tomorrow, beloved wife, the letter I wrote from Poplar forest, and which, for reasons therein stated, I did not send by mail. I left the forest on Sunday morning; reached Liberty between nine and ten, and found that Mr Gilmer had set out the evening previous for albemarle. The...

Nicholas P. Trist to Virginia J. Randolph Trist, 30 Aug. 1825

You will receive tomorrow, beloved wife, the letter I wrote from Poplar forest, and which, for reasons therein stated, I did not send by mail. I left the forest on Sunday morning; reached Liberty between nine and ten, and found that Mr Gilmer had set out the evening previous for albemarle. The...

George G. Skipwith to John H. Cocke, 31 Aug. 1825

Though tardy in complying with your wishes perhaps it may still not be too late and that this may reach you before you send for us which should it you will do me a great favour to answer by Jessee when you send for us. Since you left us I have not made much progress in the Italian and Spanish...

Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 1 Sep. 1825

I must write to you My dear Ellen, when I can, and not wait for time to do it quietly and rationally. I have literally not one quiet hour from 5 in the morning my usual hour of rising, till 10 at night, when we generally retire. the odd half hours and quarters that I can command I will most...

Virginia J. Randolph Trist to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 3 Sep. 1825

I have atlength given up the keys & have time to write to you My Dearest Sister, to think of you I always find time even when most pressed by the labours of housekeeping & distracted by the crowds of company which we have had a constant succession of this summer. I believe I have entirely...

Benjamin F. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph Trist, [10 Sept. 1825?]

I received your letter by Boling Garrett which greatly cheered the me the melancholy feeling which I would have unavoidably at leaveng you all I am very much pleased with Mr Lewis although we do not fare as well as we aught to do I find no fault with the table but we have to cut our wood make our...

Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 18-19 Sept. 1825

I wrote a hurried scrawl to Mr Coolidge by the last mail which would have been burnt if I had had time to collect my thoughts to do better, but although I went in to Nicholas’s pavillion and it rained furiously while I was there, I was so often interrupted, and even forced to leave My letter to...

Joseph Coolidge to Nicholas P. Trist, 27 Sept. 1825

I have been long silent; and perhaps even now do not choose a favourable moment to write you; for you may still be at the Springs, wh. I am glad to hear from mother have been of service to you. You know that we did not stop, as we had intended, at West-Point; and your kind letters, of course,...

Joseph Coolidge to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 Oct. 1825

I have received yours from the White Sulphur Springs; & am glad that you are better for your journey to them; indeed this is evident without your ing me so in set phrase; for the tenor of your letter is cheerful and shews improved health of body and mind. Ellen and myself often speak of , not...

John Wayles Eppes, Jr. to Martha B. Eppes, 9 Oct. 1825

You dont know how much I want to see you, and my sisters, I was truly sorry to hear that Sister Mary had been very sick, but I hope by this tim, her health is entirely restored to her again. I am sorry to inform you that some body attempted to break in the house, but did not succede in the...

Joseph Coolidge to Nicholas P. Trist, 10 Oct. 1825

a fine fellow—a clergman by name John Brazer, (now a unitarian preacher in Salem, about 15 miles from Boston,) who when I was at Cambridge was the latin tutor, is going south—perhaps, to Monticello; and has offered to take charge of any thing we may wish to send. Ellen gives him a line to...

George G. Skipwith to John H. Cocke, 12 Oct. 1825

I avail myself of this opportunity offered by Mr Chapman going to Bremo to write you a few lines thinking that this would probably reach you before you are on your way to Brunswick. I hope you will not think that I act in conformity with Mr Chapman’s wishes but on the contrary with what I think...

Lafayette to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 12 Oct. 1825

I Most Affectionately thank you, my dear friend, for the letter I Have Received on the moment of my departure. Melancholy it Has Been, indeed, to Hear that Your Beloved father was Not Better and that the Omission of One night’s Laudanum Has Caused So much pain. the doctor Had Hopes to Remove it ...

Lafayette to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 12 Oct. 1825

I Most Affectionately thank you, my dear friend, for the letter I Have Received on the moment of my departure. Melancholy it Has Been, indeed, to Hear that Your Beloved father was Not Better and that the Omission of One night’s Laudanum Has Caused So much pain. the doctor Had Hopes to Remove it ...

Philip St. George Cocke to John H. Cocke, 12 Oct. 1825

I received your letter of the 11th this morning, by Mr Maxwell; and take the favourable opportunity of answering it by Mr Chapman, who is going down to Bremo tomorrow—Since the late unhappy occurrences here; every thing seems to be changed for the better; the young men are becoming more studious...

Arthur S. Brockenbrough to John H. Cocke, 13 Oct. 1825

Mr Chapman informs he intends over to see you today, believing some unfavorable impression had been made on you relative to his conduct here as one of the keepers of the Hotells—As to myself I can say nothing to his prejudice—as a...

Extract from Bernard Peyton to John H. Cocke, 13 Oct. 1825

P.S.I have been deeply mortified to hear of the late commotions at the University, I hope the Visitors have drawn the Cord of discipline much tighter than heretofore, & given greater authority to the Visitors Faculty in the way of punishments: our accounts no doubt are greatly exagerated—

Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 13 Oct. 1825

Your last letter My dear Ellen, is a fresh proof of the infalibility of my judgement. the old dutchess de la Ferté could not have predicted with more confidence than I did, that it was only necessary for you to become acquainted with Boston for you to be pleased with it. and it appears...

Hore Browse Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 16 Oct. 1825

Your letter from the Springs reached me a few days ago. I am anxious to learn the effect of the water upon your system & whether it has been as efficacious as I hope it has. If it fails you must trust to care & the hand of time, which may by degrees invigorate your frame—I am just...

Virginia J. Randolph Trist to Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, 16 Oct. 1825

Cornelia being now on a visit to Carys-brook, my Dearest Sister, the cares of house-keeping have devolved upon me, with the heavy addition of my being obliged to finish Sidneys trimming in the course of a week, and both together give me scarcely time to sleep & take my meals, but this is...