1From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 21 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Miss Eleanor W. Randolph to Th: Jefferson D. 1805. May 21. To a letter which ought to be written once in every 3. weeks, while I am here, to wit from Jan. 1. 1805. to this day, 15. weeks 5. Cr. Feb. 23. By one single letter of this day’s date 1 Balance due from E. W. Randolph to Th:J. Letters 4 5 So stands the account for this year, my dear Ellen, between you and me. unless...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 28 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your letter (without date) with great pleasure, for it always gives me pleasure to hear from Edgehill. in return for your news from thence, I have none to give you from this place which would interest you, except that mrs Harrison Smith is well, dined with me the other day, & desired me to present her love in the first letter to you. she is now in the country at a neat little box...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 July 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
To answer the question in your letter of the 4th. I must observe that neither the number of the fine arts, nor the particular arts entitled to that appellation have been fixed by general consent. many reckon but five Painting, sculpture, architecture, music & poetry. to these some have added Oratory, including, within that, Rhetoric which is the art of style & composition. others again, add...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10th. did not get here till the 19th. and this is the first post-day since that for answering it. I am afraid that sending your letters a few minutes too late, only arrive at Milton after the departure of the post & lie there a week. I am very doubtful that something like this must have happened with the letters of the 16th. if any were then written, as they ought to have...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with deep concern, my dearest Ellen, that the family has been unwell generally, that you have been ill, and your Mama indisposed. Anne informs me you are getting better but does not say whether your Mama is so also. yet, in the absence of your Papa, her health is doubly important because her care is necessary for you all. I hope this will find you all recovered. your friends here are...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 30 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved two letters from you since I left Monticello. by Davy I sent you a pair of Bantam fowls; quite young: so that I am in hopes you will now be enabled to raise some. I propose on their subject a question of natural history for your enquiry: that is whether this is the Gallina Adrianica, or Adria, the Adriatick cock of Aristotle? for this you must examine Buffon &c. mr Burwell...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
This is our postday, and I have been so engaged that the hour of dinner & company are arriving before I could begin a letter to you. I shall therefore merely say we are all well, & I hope we shall hear to-night that all are well at Edgehill. tell your Mama, while you kiss her for me, that Rigden has returned & delivered me her watch neatly done, which will be sent by your papa. I send you...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 8 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe it is true that you have written me 2. letters to my one to you. whether this proceeds from your having more industry or less to do than myself I will not say. one thing however I will say that I most sincerely wish to be with you all, and settle the point vivâ voce (if you do not understand these two Latin words, you must lay Jefferson’s Latin under contribution that you may know...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid I shall be bankrupt in my epistolary account with Anne & yourself. however the tide of business, like that of the ocean, will wait for nobody. I send for Cornelia a little poem, the grasshopper’s ball, to begin her collection. the yankee story is for yourself. thank Mary for her letters, but tell her it is written in a cypher of which I have not the key. she must therefore tell it...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 29 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe I have recieved no letter from you since I came from Monticello, but perhaps there is one on the road for me. hope is so much pleasanter than despair, that I always prefer looking into futurity through her glass. I send you some poetical gleanings. our newspapers have been rather barren in that ware for some time past. whether the muses have been taking a nap, or our news writers...