As soon as I arrived at home from Varina, about the middle of this month, I wrote to thank you for your very acceptable favor of the 27. Oct., but through some accident my letter was not carried to the P.O., and made its appearance on my table this morning, upon my removing some papers. I do not...

At the moment of my leaving Richmond on Monday the 21st inst. Mr John Forbes of the Richmond Bar, my very old and much esteemed acquaintance, informed me that the Decree rendered in the U.S. Circuit Court, Nov. term 1805, in Chancery, against the Exrs of T R. ded, and more particularly against...

I learn from Mr Jefferson that Walsh has informed him very lately of a striking change in the countenance and appearance of Mr Correa, accompanied by a manifest sinking of his spirits. I am greatly distressed at the intelligence; for it can only proceed from a serious decline in his health. There...

We yesterday forwarded by mr Pollocks Waggon the articles as per Bill above, which We hope will answer your purpose—We found it extremely difficult to procure the right sizes of Iron, but have come as near as possible— We are sorry to hear the Box of Glass opened, has turned out to be somewhat...

I went to Baton rouge the other day & found at the post office two letters from you, one of the 6th Novb for myself and one of the 8th Decb for Browse, which caused us great pleasure as a considerable space of time had elapsed since last we heard from you. You mention in your letter to me...

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...

But one of the greatest curiosities I met with was Thomas Jefferson. Whether you will call this a natural or an artificial curiosity, I am puzzled to know. At all events, I went to see him at the exhibition-house at Monticello, up a long hill, which is almost daily trod by many a weary pilgrim’s...

I have not been in the habit of mysterious reserve on any subject, nor of buttoning up my opinions within my own doublet. on the contrary, while in public service especially, I have thought the public entitled to frankness, and intimately to know whom they employed.

I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. my hopes indeed sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.