I have been intending, and intending, to write to you every sunday ever since I got your letter, but something has always prevented me, for which, I am very sory sorry, and will promise that I will never neglect you again, if you answer this letter with one of your delightful long letters, that...

Will you take the trouble to deliver the inclosed to T. E. Randolph for me. It contains the halves of Bank notes to amount of 470$ remitted him. I have paid Wm Woods 250$ and Micajah Woods 200$ on acct of Wa my Bonds to G I. Garret for John Watson. I hope the other will wait a little for I am...

feeling dispose to solicit your patronage Again for imployment at the University, which I acknowledge myself much inbeted for the past, I do not apprehend its your wish or intention to reduce me in the price. this season, in case you should Be kind Enough to give me any, the maner in which the...

I wrote to Mrs Coolidge by the last mail, but really in a state of mind so unfit that if there had been any probability of it’s being more composed before the crisis of the 8th was passed I would certainly not have sent the letter. but it had been already too long though unavoidably delayed, and...

I am surprised that you do not Receive my letters in due time, for those your Brother and self write me, are seldom more than 21 days before they reach me and a free communication with your self and Brother is the greatest happiness that I at present enjoy, I am sorry to hear that you have been...

Though I am labouring under a tolerably bad head ache, the effect of having got so much interested last night, in Stewart’s Philosophy of the human Mind, which I have bega begun to study, as to sit up two or three hours after my usual bed time (11 o’clock); I will not let a mail pass without...

I was not a little delighted by th receiving a second letter from my dear brother, for I was really beginning to be seriously apprehensive least I should never again have that honour, that you might have no excuse for dropping the correspondence, I had determined to answer yours the day after...

I have been waiting with the utmost impatience for you to commence a correspondence with me as you promised to do, but as it seems to have escaped your memory I have determined to give it a little jog, (if you’ll allow me the expression) for I had anticipated a great deal of pleasure from a...

We have been in despair my dear cousin, ever since the news reached us of cousin Jeffs loss on the journey. I trust it is not a very serious one to him, but it is a dreadful thing for us. we had all written long letters by him, letters which we would not have trusted to the mail which we would...

Although we have been nearly a fort night in Richmond, I have nothing to tell you my dear cousin that is worth inking my fingers for; Virginia I suppose has given you full account of the ball, and except on that occasion we have never gone out but to return morning calls.—certainly we have had...