Extract from Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist

Mr Jeffersons when I last saw him a bout ten days since look’d as well as he did 10 years ago, and to day tho the wind is blowing a perfect Herricane he rode through Charlottesville to visit the College to morrow he purposes to set out for Poplar Forest to spend a month.

RC (NcU: NPT); torn at seal; addressed: “Mr Nicholas P– Trist West Point New York”; stamped; postmarked Charlottesville, 10 Mar.; endorsed by recipient: “9th March 1819.”
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