I am once more so far on my way back to my own dear home; rendered dear to my me by my dearest wife & our little ones. When I shall fairly get under way for home them, as yet I know not: the tickets are nearly all ready we shall come out with the prospectus next week and tickets offered at...

I can scarcely believe my senses when I recollect that I am 750 miles from all that is dear to me and yet the facilities of travelling by steam are so great that one passes two three hundred miles with as much facility as we do in Virginia 50 or 60. we left N. York 3, o clock Tuesday evening &...

What do I think of W. Gilmer? I only wish that I could find language strong enough to express my abhorance for his most unfeeling & ungrateful conduct, for surely nothing could be more unfeeling than his writing against the lottery, let his opinion of it be what it might, when we consider his...

I hasten to announce to you the birth of—what do you think, yes tis even so another daughter, I cannot sympathize with you in your disappointment it is called Esther Maria a name so dear to us all that I am sure we will love mo it even more than if it had been a boy, Jane is pretty well she says...

Know all men by these presents, that I Joseph Coolidge jr of Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for divers good causes and considerations, have made constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make constitute and appoint, Thomas Jefferson Randolph of Albemarle Cy.— in the...

You have heard before this of our having staid at Tufton to breakfast: we did not leave there ’till a quarter past six; and travelling very slow it was quite late before we got to Mrs Carter’s. There I got introduced to Wyndham Robertson, also on his way to the Springs, who has probably fulfilled...

At the instance of, & as agent quoad hoc of H. B. Trist, I enclose you a check on the Richmond Bank, for $350.—The second shall be remitted to you in due course. You may acknowledge the rect to Browse at Donaldsonville. I live in town now—that’s the most important tidings I have to impart.

My very dear Grand Son your letter of the 18th of last month I received with heart felt pleasure, last evening, tho its contents was not alltogether calculated to increase my happiness it relieved my mind from apprehensions for your safty having heard of the fever that raged in orleans and that...

I have just received your letter & proceed forthwith to make a reply. If $50 would suffice, I might retain that sum or thereabouts, for I could conscientiously leave a small debt in consideration that there is no uncertainty, unless fortuitous, as to my receiving money to discharge it. What...

Sonnet to Mr Jefferson written in 1822 Immortal man! not only of thine own The best and greatest, but of every age; Thou whose meridian strength was prompt to wage For liberty the war against a throne! When thy gigantic mind had plac’d thee lone And high, thou didst controul the wildest rage Of...