Thomas Mann Randolph to Peter Carr
| Dear Peter, | Haymarket March 10th 1790. |
Mr Jefferson left us on Monday. He desired me to inform you that he would write to you from Fredericsburg or Alexiandria, his business having rendered it impossible from Richmond. He tells you likewise by me, that you may make yourself perfectly easy about the affair mentioned in your letter, and that you may apply at a tavern somewhere near your Mothers, which I suppose you know, for a copy of Coke to be left there for you by Coll Monro.
Patsy & Polly are well, they desire to be remembered to their Aunt & Cousins. We have not yet determind when we go to Varina. Write to me by the first opportunity at Tuckaho where we shall all reside the next 10 days.
For the affair mentioned in Carr’s letter, see Peter Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 5 Mar. 1790 (ViU). coke was the standard legal reference work by Sir Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: or a Commentary upon Littleton (4th ed., London, 1639).