Your favour of yesterday is recieved, I will do the best I can to get John boarding where he wishes it, but am very fearfull that it will be a difficult matter to get it in a private family in this place I have been this morning to see Mrs Burnley. she declines takeing boarders. the truth is that...

The Cotton has been ready for some time waiting for a boat, the Man who promised to take it to town has not yet arrived but as we expect him hourly I trust your Father will send you a check for $300 next week; I cannot express to you my dear Child half the pain this want of money has cost me I...

Your last letter to me was dated 6th of august, if your Brother had not got a letter from you Since you returnd from your expedition I shoud be very wretched, indeed I am not altogether easey about you at present, tho our society here is numerous and generally agreeable but notwithstanding my...

We arrived here last night evening about sun-set, we found the roads, ruff, and bad, as long as were in Albemarle, but afterwards, they were the greater part of the way very fine, we got to Mrs Tinsleys, by four Oclock, not in the least fatigued, my cholick soon evaparated, but poor Sall, had not...

It is hardly worth the expence of Postage that you pay for my letters, but it is some satisfaction when I dont receive letters from my friends to write to them; I dont mean to complain of your not writing, tho it is six weeks and upwards since the date of your last, as your Brother, in a note...

aujourd’huy 5. fevrier je reçois votre lettre Du 3. de l’expiré: Je vois avec peine que celles que je vous écris ne Vous parviennent pas: Depuis le mois D’octobre je vous En ai adressées trois, Deux contenant deux checks de $150. chaque et plus deux lettres de mes Correspondants à la ne or. pour...

your letter, which I received last Monday; Made me quite happy, I had been in terror, least the disturbance which I knew you would receive from our dear little Patt, would be more than you could bare, I am surpris’d that you should whip her, I think I informed you that whipping, always put her in...

The D “Dusky Sally story—the story that Mr Jefferson kept one of his slaves (Sally Hemmings) as his mistress & had children by her, was once extensively believed by respectable men, & I believe both John Quincy Adams & our own Bryant sounded their poetical lyres on this very poetical...

I received your letter informing me that Montgomery will ask me $150. this appears to be an extravagant price. Mr Minor is not willing to give it. it would be cheaper t for him to send me in his carriage. you must tell montgomery this Mr Minor would give 7$ a day which is the price in Richmond....

I was surprised on looking into the drawer where I put my letters to find the enclosed, which I thought had been Sent to the post Office, I open’d it with the intention of taking Some extracts and of noticing some things that you had mention’d, that of the musick which was not in the letter, and...