You will receive tomorrow, beloved wife, the letter I wrote from Poplar forest, and which, for reasons therein stated, I did not send by mail. I left the forest on Sunday morning; reached Liberty between nine and ten, and found that Mr Gilmer had set out the evening previous for albemarle. 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.

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...

With sincere contrition, my own dearest Virginia, I acknowledge my departure from those rules of conduct which I have so often recommended to you. But, believe me, though I have acted most foolishly, my conscience does not reproach me with having harbored any resentment against you. Had I given...

I know, my dear Virginia, that you will feel angry with me for not writing sooner, when I tell you that the mail by which your last letter came, also brought one which gives me the dawn of hope, of being able to keep my appointment with You for the 2d of June.—Yes, my beloved friend! I shall...

Having written to Ellen not longer back than the 26th, I should have deferred writing to you a few days longer, if business did not call me this afternoon down the bayou; from whence I do not expect to return until saturday.—The papers by yesterday’s mail arrived in such a soaked and mutilated...

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 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 shall not apologise for keeping your letter 3 weeks by me unanswered, exact punctuality is not in my power, fortunately perhaps for my correspondants. as you did not receive the Louisville packet in due season I am almost sorry that my part of it at least had not gone to the bottom, for old...