I received yours of the 17 April last evening to hear from you always gives me...

On Saturday next the youngsters of Monticello intend to adjourn to the South-Pavilion and dance after Beverley’s music. Elizabeth has promised to illuminate the party by her presence, and if Sister Jane will also honour us with her presence hers, they will we shall consider them ourselves...

I expected to have left Richmond in the stage which carries this letter, my dear Mother, but Papa’s business will detain him some days longer; Virginia is decided to return home at the same time, as she does not consider that the pleasures of the town will compensate for the loss of the society...

I am fill’d with extreme anxiety by your long silence: it is very mortifying to one...

I have received letters from all the girls my dear Mother, and none from you, but I cannot let Phill go up without writing, and as I have so many debts, I must reverse the old proverb, and be generous before I am just. I am at present staying at Dr Watson’s A few days ago, I came to visit Aunt ...

What in the name of heaven has got in to the weather? it is to that you must address your self my Dear Sister, for I never knew...

I send the girls harness to you, as V....

When I received the letters from home, containing our remittances I wrote you two or three lines from charlottesville, at Leitch’s request, inclosing your check, that you might endorse it payable to James Leitch and send it on to remit it again to charlottesville. I beleive I told you that if you...

You know enough of me to ascribe my long silence to the right cause, an insuperable aversion to wrighting writing and to a procrastinating spirit which is my greatest misfortune, and I therefore hope for your forgiv pardon, and a renewal of those letters which have given me so much pleasure....

I thank you My Dear Nicholas for the proofs you give me of your remembrance, which to hearing you are well & doing well constitutes my greatest pleasure and happiness my anxiety that you shou’d make the very best use of the opportunity afforded you and that you will acqi acquire habits of...