The return of our well beloved friend Lee (who is the same excellent man he ever was) affords me too good an opportinity to be missed, of writing to you. Indeed as he is an officer of the court, I should fear an attachment, if I were not to send in, not my adhesion—but my warmest affections. You...

I am thus prompt in acknowledging your favor of the 27th Feby with the draft enclosed for 150$ which I did not receive without some painful sensations accompanied with grateful feelings to your dear Mother who has made me feel my dependent situation, less than I otherwise shou’d by her promptness...

Article of Agreemt made this 3d July 1764 Between the Honble Peter Randolph Esqr & John Wayles The said Randolph Agrees to Convey in Ffee unto the said Wayles or his Assigns two tracts of Land Viz Popler forest & Judys Creek containg about 5800 acres in Ffee. In consideration where of the...

I received your affectionate letter last saturday & cant’ express to you how much gratified I am by it; nothing is so gratifying to me as to hear from my friends expressions of interest in me, which I never think of but with the greatest pleasure, & return with the truest attachment;...

I have been expecting to hear from some of the family for the last two weeks for I think I mention’d to you that I shou’d look for a letter from some of you every month and it is near six weeks since I have had a line from Bedford I hope sickness in the family has not been the cause of your...

You did well to write to me before you commence the campaign of courts. our Lord Thurlow has broke up, & cleared out, much to the satisfaction of the whole bar. Tho’ I should not say it. To me he has ever been very civil & friendly: But had I known he intended to stick my name in the news...

I reached my Bachelor’s home on yesterday after a months visit to albemarle. But for inroads made upon my plans by Col. Nichola’s embarass’d & hopeless affairs I would have been with you at Shanandale. You are in the right touching the necessity, comfort, dignity, respectability, honor, &...

For your classical greetings on the return of xmas and the auspicious beginning of a new year I give you most humble & hearty thanks. That your money & beer are what may be called good things I do however reluctantly (as Serjeant Williams used to say) “candidly confess.” For that flower...

I certainly shoud not have written to you at present having so recently address’d you but I am in a delemma about the Book you sent by mail the Postage of which is 26 Dollars. when the servant went to Town after the letters and papers last saturday he mention’d that there was a large Book for me...

For very dear you are to me; so much do you occupy my thoughts, that I can not be happy without I hear from you at least once a month, your last letter was dated the 23d of Feby you then complaind of continuel headackes but attributed it to want of exercise and the weather has not been favorable...