Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

Dear Mother

[ca. 30 Nov. 1809]

I have waited with impatience for nearly two a month expecting to hear from some one of the family (yourself excepted) respecting my final arrangement for the winter; The house is very much crowded at present, but we experience no inconvenience from it, having a room in another, house I never see or hear the company without except at meals, when I generally go in after they are all seated & most frequently speak to no one, except Answering Aunt whos who is very solicitous to know if her Jeffy as she calls me, is helped; I am perfectly satisfyed with my situation. The school certainly does not equal my expectation[s] it will in all probability fail from Geradins Avarice once having felt the withering hand of poverty he seems determined to place himself far beyond its reach, We¹ do almost as what we please in school pro Geradin da does not attend regularly & Doyle the Latin teacher is drunk every night of his life & does little but blab between the teachers & boys. My old teacher Wood for I have little to do with any other is as good better tempered than most persons, we vex him he scolds & we laugh at him, he does the greater part of the business of the other teachers the consiquence is he is obliged to neglect those immediately und[er] him & we are often obliged to tease him to hear us; I have gone half through the 4, 5, 6 & nearly finished the sixth book of Euclid, as far as involution of f in Algebra, & am goning with class in Natural philosophy & french for the pronunciation.