I have been so cruelly afflicted with a pain in my face all this week and am so much enfeebled by loss of sleep that I cannot ride as far as Warren for a week to come I have not been confined to the house any day yet all day but when I have been out I have been obliged to skulk from shade to...

I have taken the liberty of presenting to your notice my young friend Mr Wills who has been engaged in copying the M.S.S. of my late grandfather Mr Jefferson, and is now procuring subscribers for their publication. I have ventured to take this liberty, from the knowledge of the friendship which...

mr. jefferson’s estate We cannot forbear inviting the attention of the reader to the advertisement of the intended sale of Mr. Jefferson’s property—We understand all that the Executor can controul has been brought forward for sale; and that the residue of the lands will be offered as soon as...

Your note inclosing that of Gov. Wise is before me. I most fully appreciate his Excellency’s feelings and views, but as the nearest relative and sole Executor of Mr Jefferson I cannot disregard what I know to have been his cherished domestic feeling, fostered while he lived with a warmth and...

The Estate of Wilson Cary Nicholas with Tho. J Randolph Wilson C Nicholas & R C Nicholas his adms Debits

… Mr. Jefferson had suffered for several years before his death, from a diarrhœa, which he concealed from his family, lest it might give them uneasiness. Not aware of it, I was surprised, in conversation with him, in March, 1826, to hear him in speaking of an event likely to occur about midsummer...

Jesse arrived here with my mare, and my fathers in much better order than you will find yours I am afraid and a far better chance for colts. only one of yours has been to the horse at all (the old mare) and she only once they were regular sent upon the sent 9th & 10th days but owing to the...

I have waited with impatience for nearly two a month expecting to hear from some one of the family (yourself excepted) respecting my final arrangement for the winter; The house is very much crowded at present, but we experience no inconvenience from it, having a room in another, house I never see...

$900 On or before the first day of October eighteen hundred and nineteen I promise to pay Edmund Bacon his heirs executors administrator or assigns the sum of—nine—hundred dollars with legal interest from the first twelfth day of october 1818. to the true payment of which I bind myself my...

My friend Mr Harris the bearer of this, is desirous of getting his son in to the military school at West Point. will you inform what him what steps are necessary, to attain his object, and aid him as much as will be in your power