You did well to write to me before you commence the campaign of courts. our Lord Thurlow has broke up, & cleared out, much to the satisfaction of the whole bar. Tho’ I should not say it. To me he has ever been very civil & friendly: But had I known he intended to stick my name in the news...

I reached my Bachelor’s home on yesterday after a months visit to albemarle. But for inroads made upon my plans by Col. Nichola’s embarass’d & hopeless affairs I would have been with you at Shanandale. You are in the right touching the necessity, comfort, dignity, respectability, honor, &...

For your classical greetings on the return of xmas and the auspicious beginning of a new year I give you most humble & hearty thanks. That your money & beer are what may be called good things I do however reluctantly (as Serjeant Williams used to say) “candidly confess.” For that flower...

When you wrote yours of april 20th you little imagined that at the very time I was mounted on a large & warlike black moving with a lofty pace to Georgia with John Patterson to take possession of another el-dorado as full of promise as the first. Yet such was the fact. We moved by a pretty...

If any man say I have abated one jot of my love for Winchester and all that therein is, call him “a liar & a son of darkness.” The recollection of the pleasant days we had there is still fresh in my memory—no fortune can extinguish it—and I shall give you the proof some day yet. I felt for...

of all the persons I have known, Mr. Jefferson appears to owe most to the manner of his intercourse with mankind, there is nothing more fascinating about him than the appearance of perfect candour. He is much more of a courtier than I can ever be, with every aspect of the most unconcerned...

The old Citzn of Monticello is such a diplomatist, that he has quite baffled our schemes to obtain his opinion: and when we ask him one thing he tells us, he ‘has reason to believe’ something about another. A plague upon all diplomacy I say.

Peter Jefferson 400 Acres Form Page 1.1 George the Second &c: To all &c: Know ye that for divers good Causes and Considerations but more especially for and in Consideration of the Sum of Forty Shillings of good and lawful Money for our Use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in...

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly,School commissioners to be appointed by the courts of the counties, cities, &c annually. That for the purpose of duly applying a part of the income of the literary fund to the primary object of its institution, it shall be the duty of the courts of the...

what would you say to edifying the world by a chaste, elegant, and philosophical life of Citn Thomas your Uncle? He is in my judgement the best subject for biography after Gen: Washington which our country has afforded. This is a question worthy of consideration. It would be a great thing for a...