Your note of the 17th was duly received and incessant occupation must be my excuse for not answering it sooner. There is not one of Mrs Jefferson’s numerous descendents who has a paper bearing the stroke of her pen. The nearest thing to it is the label on a paper containing a golden curl from the...
Your letter of the 3d was received to-day and I hasten to write and thank you for sending me the enclosed slips containing a copy of my great-grandmothers letter. I am afraid from Mrs Smith’s letter that neither “love nor money” could ever get the original from her for you. There is just a bare...
You have been sadly neglected my darling children, since Poor Harry’s illness. We felt so anxious & unhappy about him that no one had the heart to write. Now he is improving steadily & sent his love to every body in his mother’s last letter. She is charmed with the whole family of Jone’s,...
Extract from a letter written by Elizabeth Eppes—wife of Frances Eppes. to aunt Jane (Mrs T. J. Randolph of “Edgehill.”) July 7th 1828. “Poplar Forest” Speaking of life at Monticello “before death had changed those scenes of peace & happiness I have ever felt cheered & enlivened in my...
My cousin Mrs Harrison, begs me to add some of my “memories” of
what I have heard, from my mother & aunts on the subject of their child life
at “Monticello”
“As Jefferson’s daughters were both married before his 1st Presidential term, it is his grandchildren who appear on the roll of the “Children of the White House”; and in the roll of “children of his old age” we find the children of “Dear Patsey” Mrs T. M. Randolph and her chivalerous lover like...
Relics from “Monticello” 1st The old french clock supported between black marble Obelisks. This clock was brought from France by Thomas Jefferson, and stood always near the head of his bed on a wooden bracket which is at Edgehill. When the sale of Mr Jefferson’s personal property took place at ...
First mention of the name Jefferson in Colonial Virginia” x x x x x x The first time that the name of Jefferson appears in any record of the affairs of Virginia which happens at as early a period at as twelve years after the settlement of the Colony. It was known that a house of Burgesses had...
There are several other relics small & insignificant in themselves but valuable as having belonged to “Thomas Jefferson” A silver stock buckle”—a pair of shoe buckles of steel, a pair of silver shoe buckles with small crystals set in them, and a stock buckle to match: this buckle he was...
Small Articles of Jewellery & other relics of Thomas Jefferson. 1 stock buckle & small pair of shoe buckles of “Paste” or crystal set in silver, the stock buckle he was wearing at the time of his death, 1 Silver stock Buckle— 1 Silver pencil case made to hold a cedar pencil, & with a ...
Obituary written by “Alexander Garrett” of Charlottesville Va & published in “Richmond Enquirer” June 1828 On the 20th Instant at “Monticello,” died in the 60th year of his age, Thomas Mann Randolph late Governor of Virginia. In death, as in life, the same fearless, intrepid individual. Mute...
List of silver made June 20th 1901—Copied from a list made April 20th 1891. revised & added to. my grand mother’s 2d husband, who requested that my father “Nicholas Trist” should take his name “Philip” which he did, Mr Jones left him all of his silver among other things a very handsome &...
My great grandfather “Nicholas Trist,” (Son of Browse & Elizabeth Trist of the town of Devonshire England) came to America during the Revolution, and was Lieutenant in the “Royal Irish” of which his brother Browse Trist was Col at Bunker Hill My great grandfather married in Phila a Miss ...
I am sending you the Papers in reference to my Mother and Father as I told you I would I have been very sick for the last six weeks or I would of sent them sooner Hopeing you may be successfull in placing them and the articles I gave you where they will be taken care of