I am very sure that the eruption that had broken out on you was certainly the Measles. And I flatter myself that you have got through it very favorably. It was in that way they commenced with my Margaret, and she had them more favorably than any of the girls. I think too that your confiniment...

I have just received your letter, and have left off making the prettiest trimming that you ever saw to answer it; I am making a trimming for my plain book muslin, after one that Margret has just received from Baltimore, I cannot describe it to you but, I assure you it is the prettiest thing...

Your favor of the 16th gave me infinite satisfaction. I shall want your legal powers to procure myself justice in more than one case. My statements shall be entirely sincere, very full, and I hope clear enough for you. They would not be for others, I know from experience. As I shall be Plaintiff...

I plead guilty to the charge of laziness which you have been pleased to prefer against me & am now about to atone for it in the manner you wished. I had partly discharged the penance imposed upon me by the decree before it arrived, on a small sheet of paper which I suppose at first excited...

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...

I received your letter on friday & should have answered it immediately but have been prevented by company untill the present moment Accept my most gratefull thanks for the interrest you have so kindly taken evinced on this occasion, and as the gentlemen have made you the Organ of...

I received a few days ago the inclosed letter with its contents, which I beg leave to submit for yr perusal & consideration. My labours have been such as to prevent my waiting on you, & having the honor and pleasure of doing in person, what I now do by letter. Be so good as to inclose me...

I do not know my dear Mother whether you will p ...

You have the boldness to say that I am in your debt to a considerable amount of epistolary specie, whereas, I am well convinced, if all accounts were settled between us, the balance would be in my favour. no doubt you find it some what more irksome to write a letter than to read one, and for that...

I have been in Richmond a week to day my dear Mother, and two posts have past without my hearing from home. Elizabeth and Virginia received letters to day from Harriet, but she says nothing of the Monticello family, & I wh I am beginning to be very anxious to hear from you all. Aunt Hackley...