Your Brother and Self occupy so constantly my thoughts that if I am more than a month without hearing from you I begin to be uneasy and find solace in writing to you it is perhaps puting you to unnecessary expence and these are hard times and Money scarse but while I have Money on credit I can...

Mrs Nicholas arrived here yesterday at two o’clock having suffered no fatigue whatever from her journey. I am sorry that it is not in my power to announce the birth of a grandson yet, but I hope to have that pleasure in the course of a few days. Mr Godefroy will with great pleasure undertake the...

Margret had got this far in her second letter, but could never get a syllable farther, and as I think it a pity to finish waste the paper (money being very scarce) I will finish it to you. I suppose mama told you what a pleasant journey we had down, & how much we were delighted with the sofas...

We have thought of you a great deal since you left us, my dear Mrs Madison, and regretted that the circumstance of the weather, and of mama indisposition, should have rendered your visit so much less pleasant, than we were anxious to make it—I shall not however give up the hope of seeing you...

The depression of the price of produce, the suspension of the sale of property, some heavy disappointments, & the entire loss of confidence throughout the U.S. imposes upon me and every man in debt the obligation to husband his means so as to do the least injustice to his creditors. It cannot...

On my return from a visit to Aunt Cary, I found your letter of the 10th, my dear Mrs Madison, waiting for me at Monticello—we should have experienced no sort of inconvenience had you detained the books the whole winter, for we have all read them. a long absence from home must plead my excuse for...

Your charming letter of the 29th of March came to hand on the 4th instant. I had written but a few days before to Peachy or shou’d have replied immediatly, it mortifies and grieves me that so few of my letters reach you tho it is often painful owing to a Rhumatic affection in my right hand, to...

The desire of inducing her to “give up her family” is one of the last things I deserved to be suspected of by Virginia, for I knew her well enough to be certain that she would not accede to such a proposal, and she ought to have known me well enough to be convinced that I could not make such a...

The more I reflect on the idea which struck me during our conversation, the greater becomes my conviction of the advantages which would accrue to both parties from its adoption.—I will agree to settle, this fall, either at Baton-rouge or on some other land, the selection of which I shall leave to...

The interview I yesterday requested, and for the refusal of which, Hope forbids me to assign any other reason than your maiden modesty, was for the purpose of making a declaration of a passion which, unless my eye is not what the eye generally is “the index of the soul” you must have often read...