Why dont I receive a letter from You?—your last has been written nearly two months; (December 2d); and, but for one I received the other day from Mr Gilmer wherin he mentioned having met Jefferson, and heard from him that you were all well, I should be miserable.—From the knowledge I have of my...

I reciev’d your letters yesterday My Dear Virginia while writhing under one of those infernal pains, & with the horrors of being oblig’d to sleep that night in a room full of girls, for Mrs Carr & her daughters were expected last evening on their arrival from Baltimore; she is to spend...

The arrival of my brother’s promised letter by John Nicholas, has put us all in high spirits this evening, and although sometimes fearful of being tiresome & importunate to my gayer friends, I feel too secure of...

I should have answered your first letter immediately on receiving it, my dearest Virginia, but expecting the carriage every day, I thought it probable that I should reach Monticello as soon as any letter I could write. the post goes up but twice a week and it is not always convenient to send on...

When you see Elizabeth make my appologies to her for not answering her letter by this post as I intended, but you see what sort of a piece of paper I am obliged to write to you on and I have not another scrap,...

We have spent so much of our time in visiting that I really am afraid I shall do very little with my books after all, for besides the time taken up by the act of dressing and visiting I really am so stupid and so much fatigued when I return that I find the bed the most proper place for me for...

I am very much oblig’d to you my Dear Virginia for your two letters & am quite outrageous at Elizabeth ...

As sister Ellen is writing to mama my Dear Virginia, I will write also by this opportunity, to you, for I suppose you will expect a letter in return for the one you favour’d me with when you were here. we arriv’d here in safety after a...

I have only time to write to one of you, and as you were the first from whom I recieved a letter, you must also be the first to get an answer. Washington is very gay and I go so much into company that I have scarcely a moment to devote to writing or reading. I have had severally books lent me...

You were right in suposing My Dear Virginia That we would have written sooner but for want of your address. the moment we recieved it Mary wrote to you. I was very sick after you left us, the walk I believe was the cause of it, for I was taken with a violent fever and headach that night which...