A hope of being able through your medium to serve an unfortunate family reduced to absolute want, has induced me to write to you My Dear Mrs Madison as the only person to whom I could with propriety apply in the present emergency. you have no doubt heard of the total ruin of David M. Randolph. he...

G. Granger presents his Complements to Mr Randolph and inform him that a Post Office is this day established at Timberlakes’ Store Va

Mr Jefferson left us on Monday. He desired me to inform you that he would write to you from Fredericsburg or Alexiandria, his business having rendered it impossible from Richmond. He tells you likewise by me, that you may make yourself perfectly easy about the affair mentioned in your letter, and...

I have been long intending to address a few lines to you, on some of those objects of public interest, in which, it has been my good fortune in to cooperate, successfully, with you, for the common benefit, I trust, of our fellow citizens at large. It is an unquestionable fact, that the...

We arrived here in safety, my dearest mother, at four oclock in the morning, & have taken up our quarters at Gadsby’s within a stone’s throw of the Vails. they have all, except the old lady, been to see me this morning & it made my heart swell to find myself once more re-united with...

You must excuse the size of the paper, for it is the only piece I have, the delay of this answer you must also excuse, for I have been suffering lately the tortures of the damned inflicted by that infernal fiend the tooth ache, created I fancy to give men an Idea of what hell is: I have likewise...

I am on the Wing for the Presidents Mrs Hay came for me yesterday but I was too unwell to accompany her and am far from being well to day Mrs Monroe is very unwell the family here are all, except poor little George in tolarable health tho the Girls often complain Virginia has had a Severe attack...

it is with extreme diffidence my dear Madam that I venture to ask a favour of you, altho’ my acquaintance with your generous & humane disposition induces me to do so. to you I am already in great measure indebted for the support of my family, as your patronage keeps my Husband in a situation...

Your kind, & welcome letter my dear Madam reach’d me only a few days before I was under the disagreeable necessity of quitting my home, my Husband, & part of my little family to cross the Ocean; without a protector, seeking in the bosoms of my natural friends, & my beloved Country an...

relying on your goodness I have taken the liberty to introduce to you particularly Mrs Onis Lady of the Minister plenipotentiary & Envoy extraordinary of Spain, whose excellence I am sure will gain on you each time that you are in her company. I feel myself so much interested in her forming a...