We have spent so much of our time in visiting that I really am afraid I shall do very little with my books after all, for besides the time taken up by the act of dressing and visiting I really am so stupid and so much fatigued when I return that I find the bed the most proper place for me for...

When you see Elizabeth make my appologies to her for not answering her letter by this post as I intended, but you see what sort of a piece of paper I am obliged to write to you on and I have not another scrap,...

The Cotton has been ready for some time waiting for a boat, the Man who promised to take it to town has not yet arrived but as we expect him hourly I trust your Father will send you a check for $300 next week; I cannot express to you my dear Child half the pain this want of money has cost me I...

Your Father wrote you on the 11th of this month enclosing a bill for $ 150 on Mackie Milne & Co of New York at sixty days after sight, and on the 14th he sent you another on the same house, for the same sum drawn at sight, and on the 18th I enclosed you the dupt duplicate of the one drawn at...

We have had in contemplation a visit to Mill Brook for some time but first one thing and then another has deprived us of this pleasure, the most serious preventative has been the indisposition of my dear Mr Thweatt, his leg (that was brook) has frequently pained, swelled, & confined him to...

I avail my self of the space left in your Brothers letter to acknowledge your favor of the 12th Jany, I left Mr Minors on the 23d. it had not begun to snow altho it threatend untill about noon just as the carriage arrived and Mr J Fry from Kentucky at whoes House your Father staid, on ( ...

I got back last night to monticello from Mr Eppes where I have spent the vacation in some measure to my satisfaction, would have written to you while I stay’d there but could not do it conveniently for reasons which are not worth stating. I give myself credit for writing to you now; at the dull...

aujourd’huy 5. fevrier je reçois votre lettre Du 3. de l’expiré: Je vois avec peine que celles que je vous écris ne Vous parviennent pas: Depuis le mois D’octobre je vous En ai adressées trois, Deux contenant deux checks de $150. chaque et plus deux lettres de mes Correspondants à la ne or. pour...

The arrival of my brother’s promised letter by John Nicholas, has put us all in high spirits this evening, and although sometimes fearful of being tiresome & importunate to my gayer friends, I feel too secure of...

Lesson’d indeede I should feel in my own opinion my dearest Brother to condem any act of yours—Your reasons are not singular, & assure yourself of this truth your Sister will be the last to put unfavourable constructions on your conduct—The only sentiment I feel, is the sincerest regret, that...

’Tis now about 4 weeks since I received the pamphlets which you were so good as to send me, which I read with pleasure, long may the sentiments expressed it in continue to animate the bosoms of Americans, the case of the Cadets was exactly that of America before the revolution, their grievances...

La Lenteur que j’ai mise, L’année dre a Vous envoyer Vos fonds a dû vous faire Soupçoner que j’étais comme tant d’autres dans une disette d’Espèces qui, ici comme ailleurs, ne Se fait malheureusement que trop Sentir. le produit, de nos récoltes quoiqu’abondantes, nous Laisse à peine de quoi...