71Martha Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 13 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The emergency of the occasion must apologise for the liberty I took in opening the enclosed. but as to morrow is Buckingham court and not knowing the danger that might accrue from a dissappointment I ascertained by opening the letter whether it was your self or the witnesses only that were wanting in which latter case they could have been summoned without applying to you but as some thing more...
72Martha Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
We recieved your letters last night only, and the necessary preparations for the boy’s Journey would take up so much of the day that we determined not to send them till to morrow morning 21 st Wormley will see to every thing but the bulbous roots. the kinds you mention are all growing at present and could not be moved with out destroying them but I have sent you a number of off sets of tulips...
73Martha Jefferson Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I found very readily the two bundles of papers which I enclose. to Capt Peyton who has been with us lately says that he has your cement, and books, but that the river is so low that not a boat can float— the smith’s shop took fire a few days since and but for the circumstance of his being here with M r Randolph & F Gilmer it would certainly have burnt down. there was no man upon the mountain...
74Extract from Martha Jefferson Randolph to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to Jefferson your idea of removing the negroes to a country where they would be so much more profitable, he assented at once to the advantage of such a step, but said what I knew to be the fact that his Grandfather would never lissen listen to such a proposal it for a moment , a l though moving them in a body it would occasion little or no distress to them, not a tenth part which a...
75Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ann C. Morris, 27 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
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 no t 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 rise to them still exist, and strange to say we are as much interrupted by company here as at...