When I returned from albemarle the day before yesterday, I found your letter waiting me. I thank you for it, and as I shall have but a few hours to delay on the journey I shall go from Norfolk to Baltimore directly. and I hope find you there on tuesday morning, for I leave this on sunday for...

I wrote you pr Mr Cabell requesting you would send up your moulder & six boys as soon as possible, as I have not heared any thing of them and beleiving it possible for that letter to Misscarry, I again write to request you will send them without delay. Mr Chamberlain the bearer of this is on...

Expecting to have the pleasure of seeing you here to day I neglected writing in reply to your letter informing me you could let me have a brick maker and boys—expecting to get your hands I have made no other engagements—you will therefore please send up your Moulder and six boys as soon as...

I know, my dear Virginia, that you will feel angry with me for not writing sooner, when I tell you that the mail by which your last letter came, also brought one which gives me the dawn of hope, of being able to keep my appointment with You for the 2d of June.—Yes, my beloved friend! I shall...

Having written to Ellen not longer back than the 26th, I should have deferred writing to you a few days longer, if business did not call me this afternoon down the bayou; from whence I do not expect to return until saturday.—The papers by yesterday’s mail arrived in such a soaked and mutilated...

I recieved your letter about a week ago, and feel both sorrow and shame for the length of time which has passed since I wrote to you; I have however many excuses. My little delicate daughter and my sick husband necessarily engross so much of my time, that I have but little left for the other...

I returned from Albemarle on the 11th and found your letter of 27th april waiting me. I deplored sincerely, that your visit to Albemarle was not in May instead of June—You cannot I fear prolong (not defer) it, ’till the last of July. You are right, take Mrs Carr to the White Sulphur; even on the...

You will have known what to attribute my delay to, in answering your last letter. I have put off doing so, from mail to mail, in hopes that by the next I should have it in my power to inform you of the happy realisation of my expectations.—If, as they say, bad news always travels fast, I may...

I had the honour to receive your favor of 20th inst: at 3. P.M. Yesterday: sunday Jany 26. Some of my friends had entertained the belief from evidence, which they thought and I believed to be good, that Mr Buchanan had destroyed my Bond, with the intention to cancel the debt by way of Legacy to...

Mr Middleton leaves us this morning, my dear Mrs Madison, but is so polite as to wait until I can write one line to intreat in Mama’s name, in my own, in that of the whole family, that you will not disappoint us in the pleasure of seeing you with Mr Madison in the course of the present week—the...