mr. jefferson’s estate We cannot forbear inviting the attention of the reader to the advertisement of the intended sale of Mr. Jefferson’s property—We understand all that the Executor can controul has been brought forward for sale; and that the residue of the lands will be offered as soon as...
Will you oblige me so far as to deliver the two vols. sent by Mr R,—to your care, to Mr Jones at his Bookstore. they were sent to me by mistake, or in lieu, of another, but as I had them already on hand, I informed C. & H. that I should take this method of returning them.—I recieved a letter...
I have availed myself of the first opportunity that presented itself to perform an act so much wished for as well by Colo Randolph as his family and so congenial with my own feelings that of giving him public employment—It is as a Commissioner on the part of the U. States to run the dividing line...
I have yours of novr 1— Your letter-paper, to the amo. of half a ream, all he had, was sent to James, by Hilliard, at least a fortnight since: and Jefferson who left us this morning is the bearer of your shaving-brush, a cake of English shaving soap, a box of English tooth-brushes, and tooth...
I have been longing to write to you dearest sister, for some time; our only pleasure is in writing & recieving letters from Boston at present, but I have been so busy for some days past that I could not write. The day before yesterday a box was packed & despatched to you which when you...
We arrived here yesterday my dear Virginia sometime before sunset and as a post goes out tomorrow (the post goes from here to Lynchburg twice a week) I will write to you though I feel as stupid and unwilling to do any thing as I usually do after a journey. the day we left you was a very...
at last my dear sister we have quitted Monticello and are doing our best to reconcile ourselves to our change of abode, here we shall meet with kindness and comfort, and when time has lessened our regrets for all we have left, I hope we...
I was extremely Mortified dear Sister at having past through New York without seeing you as I had intended. but we were detained so long in Baltimore by a violent cold and sore throat that I had, that we were obliged to come on as rapidly as possible that Jefferson might return immediately. as it...
You will do me a favor if you will inform me what will be the terms of the intended sale of the negroes belonging to Mr Jefferson’s Estate. Are they to be sold in family’s or individually. If the Executor is authorised & willing to part with 50. or all the negroes by private sale on what...
Proceedings of the Board of Visitors December 1826 J. M. At a meeting of the visitors of the University of Virginia, held at the University on Tuesday, December 5th 1826, at which were present James Madison Rector, James Monroe, John H. Cocke, and Joseph C. Cabell. The board being occupied in...
I have been so constantly employed in copying those manuscripts, my dearest sister, that I have not been able to write to mama or yourself, or indeed any of my beloved family; I have thought nevertheless incessantly of you. Mama’s spirits still seem to be bad, from her letters, worse even than...
I thank you for the recent pleasing information from Boston. I am not surprized to hear that you all caught colds upon the transition from such a house as Monticello to that at Tufton. I received the other Albion yesterday & inclose it now. I am hurrying my departure all in my power and begin...
I send you two Albions Nos. 23 & 25: Nov. 18. & Dec. 2d. of that intervening I know nothing. I was quite unwell from a most distressing jaw ache the early part of last week. I had been compelled to extract a very large jaw tooth myself, on acct of toothache, & it unluckily broke &...
In compliance with your favour of 11th received today we enclose a pair of Spectacle Glasses—these are of 6 Inches Focus which is a very old sight—there can however be no certainty that they will be suitable—the better way might have been to have sent one of the Glasses from the Spectacles now in...
I have recd your letter from washington; the check enclosed will be has been appropriated as you desire;—I have notified mr Perkins that appleton’s drft will be paid on presentation.Mr Sparks, upon whom you may remember we called while you were in Boston, is on his way to washington: You know the...
It is with feelings of the proudest sensibility that I now address you. The Legislature of this State on this day, with the magnanimity ever characteristic of its proceedings unanimously voted Ten thousand Dollars for the use and benefit of the child of him who penned the declaration of...
At a meeting of the Faculty of the University of Virginia on the 20th day of December 1826 The Chairman Presented to the Faculty a letter from the Proctor giving information that certain Hotel keepers had during the last Session been in the habit of playing at games of chance with the Students in...
At a meeting of the Faculty of the University of Virginia on the 20th day of December 1826 The Chairman Presented to the Faculty a letter from the Proctor giving information that certain Hotel keepers had during the last Session been in the habit of playing at games of chance with the Students in...
Although old statues adorn the Hall on all sides Edmund Drummond, never heard of any Hotel keeper playing with students at Cards—last session before last not last session saw he thinks a hotel keeper drinking in dormitory with students— Chapman—Has heard that students have played with Hotel...
Although old statues adorn the Hall on all sides Edmund Drummond, never heard of any Hotel keeper playing with students at Cards—last session before last not last session saw he thinks a hotel keeper drinking in dormitory with students— Chapman—Has heard that students have played with Hotel...
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Thomas J. Randolph, Executor of Thomas Jefferson, deceased, for and in consideration of the sum ofdollars, the payment whereof to me, as Executor aforesaid, is duly secured byofbefore the sealing and delivery of these presents, have bargained and sold, and,...
Private I write to you once more on the subject of the approaching sale at Monticello, and wish this letter to be the one which directs you in the purchase of the several articles for our acct, the amount of which Jefferson will draw for, though B. Peyton, upon T. Bulfinch & Co, at 3 days...
Sarah
stays at home this sunday afternoon, dearest Virginia, & I, of course, have it in my power to write to you. I heard a most admirable sermon this morning upon the misemployment of the sabbath, but I cannot think it an abuse of the privileges of th...
My indisposition was of short duration: Dr Dunglison’s prescription dispelling the fever & other unpleasant circumstances with which it was attended, in three or four days. So that on the thursday succeeding, the weather having moderated, I was enabled to go out. The printing, I am sorry to...
le jour de la réception de Votre lettre je finissais ma campagne. je n’ai fait que 80. Boucauds 100. milliers environ je crois que les Sucres Se Vendront bien ils Sont présentement à 6 p et 7c. j’ai eu cette dernière année beaucoup de Désagrements; mon moulin a manqué, j’ai Donc été obligé de le...