I returned from Albemarle on the 11th and found your letter of 27th april waiting me. I deplored sincerely, that your visit to Albemarle was not in May instead of June—You cannot I fear prolong (not defer) it, ’till the last of July. You are right, take Mrs Carr to the White Sulphur; even on the...

You will have known what to attribute my delay to, in answering your last letter. I have put off doing so, from mail to mail, in hopes that by the next I should have it in my power to inform you of the happy realisation of my expectations.—If, as they say, bad news always travels fast, I may...

I had the honour to receive your favor of 20th inst: at 3. P.M. Yesterday: sunday Jany 26. Some of my friends had entertained the belief from evidence, which they thought and I believed to be good, that Mr Buchanan had destroyed my Bond, with the intention to cancel the debt by way of Legacy to...

Mr Middleton leaves us this morning, my dear Mrs Madison, but is so polite as to wait until I can write one line to intreat in Mama’s name, in my own, in that of the whole family, that you will not disappoint us in the pleasure of seeing you with Mr Madison in the course of the present week—the...

I have been so poorly both in body and mind until within a couple of days back, as not to have had energy to obey the inclination of to answer your last letter, which was brought me the same day mine went to the office.—I will not try to conceal it from you, Virginia; I am not happy; nor could I...

I have ruined the sheet on which Ellen has been writing; and the day is so warm, and her black “Isaacs” so uncomfortable, that she has gone to lie down, awhile, and has left but a poor substitute, to continue her letter—; before doing so, I will transcribe what she had written. “Contrary to my...

Your Brothers long expected letter of July 24th I recd the 14th instant, it gives me pain to hear that you have had an attack of fever God grant that you may have better health in future and that your Brother may enjoy the blessing of health which I fear will not be the case if he removes to the...

Oh my beloved Friends what a Misfortune has come upon us, unexpected unlook’d for, if I cou’d have been taken from the world in her stead how freely wou’d I have resign’d my useless existance, but God knows best and we must endeavour to submit to his will, tis some consolation that her sufferings...

I received Your last some weeks before I left Monticello, but I believe you are so much accustomed to my bad ways that you do not require a fresh apology for every letter—I have in vain tried to be punctual, but bad habits are not so easily conquered, particularly when the causes which first gave...

You certainly will think me the most troublesome creature since I so often draw upon your friendly feelings towards me. It is now in the power of your dear, good, husband to render me an essential service. The land office is to be enlarged and it is supposed will be divided into two departments,...