You will have no cause to complain of my neglecting you on the contrary I fear I shall become tiresome but you will excuse me when you know my motive is to give you pleasure. last Sunday I received a very affectionate letter from your Dear Mother date 22d ...

Yours of the 2nd came to hand last week and I was some-what astonished to hear that I. W. M,s creditors intend to persist in their course. I think it would be well to get Patterson to forbid the sale; But I expect it would be requisite in that case for him to have a power of attorney, or to act...

—On the manners and ways of the Students— —First, and the worst class— People would not be apt to think at a place so much spoken of as this, and founded by one of the most learned, as well as worthy sages of this Country, that there was such a vast difference in the character &c, of the...

I am afraid mammy did not like my not telling her good bye when I came away tell her I did not forget it but I could not go up stairs after grand papa call’d me to go.

we arriv’d here in safety after a journey pleasant enough, for the weather was very fine except being rather cold mornings & evenings, but we were well wrapt up having a cloak a piece of grand papa’s besides our own things.

Your letter My Dear Jane has relieved My mind from a weight of anxiety that would most effectually have bannished sleep I had figured to my self Jefferson seriously ill too much so to leave home & alone. and had tormented my self in to hysterics when your welcome note arrived Ellen has a...

No apology is due to me Dearest Nicholas for any delay in answering my letters, who have now before me two of yours unanswered. It is really a singular circumstance that loving you, and thinking of you as much as I do, I should still be so much under the influence of a habit contracted in early...

We went yesterday my dear Virginia to hear Mr Meade preach & our hearts are all won, not by his sermon, for I w can never consider think his doctrine any thing but monstrous, but by the appearance of the man himself; I was very p much prejudiced against him for many things, the principal...

Your favor of the 28th of March came to hand came to hand on on the 18 April I had just sent of a letter to your Mother which will inform you all that I have to communicate from the quarter you wish most to hear from I have not had a letter from Monticello since 22d March the date of Virginias...

I beg My dear Nicholas that you will never again suffer your self to be made seriously uneasy by any possible length of silence from me. I am so notorious an offender in that way that if you did but know it, I deserve thanks and praises at your hands so far, for having treated you to so much...