1Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
In the number of gratulations on your return to private life I present mine with assurences that no one, is more sincerely gratified at the honorable termination of your Political career than I am, or derives greater happiness from the additional lustre reflected on your character, which has even impressd your enemies with sentiments of respect and admiration May Heaven spare you long to your...
2Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note made me very happy as I began to entertain doubts of the safety of the letter in question I will take it as a favor when you write to the President to tell him I am not insensible to his very polite attention and return him many thanks any time when convenient to you will answer my purposes either sunday or any later day I am with Sincerity your ever obliged and affectionate friend...
3Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 7 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I gratefully thank you My Dear Sir for your kind and friendly letter which I received by yesterdays mail—it was a pleasure that I had not contemplated I had not written to you fearing it might fearing it might lay your politeness under contribution when I was well aware that your time wou’d be more usefully and Satisfactorily employ’d than it cou’d by replying to my details of unhappiness...
4Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The only hope I have of your remembrance of me, is that you are not apt, to forget those whom you have once honor’d with the Appellation of friend, under that impression I can not deny my self the pleasure of once more addressing a few lines to you, not to trouble you with unavi unavailing regrets for the misfortunes and sorrows of those whoese welfare my heart takes the deepest interest in,...
5Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind favor with the pamphlet I rec d with great pleasure and have perused it with attention as I do every publication that bears your signiture in this instance I felt a desire to be convinced as it was the only circumstance that ever occurd in which my weak Judgment had been so operated upon as t not to subscribe implicitly to your opinions but the Analysis of your Work which was...
6Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I shou’d have made my acknowledgements ere now for your kind favor accompanying The History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, but I was on a visit to M rs Tucker in Pittsylvania when it arrived, and just as I got home M r Burwells carriage came to take me to Franklin , tho prevented from setting off for three days in consiquence of two days heavy rain swelling the water courses your letter...
7Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind favor by last weeks mail, accompanied by one from my daughter now Madame S t Julian de Tourneillon occasiond my heart to glow with feelings that it has been long a stranger to, a reiteration of your continued friendship and good wishes, and assurences of her happiness in consiquence of the change in her condition were calculated to animate my mind to an enthusiastic degree of...
8Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your kind favor of the 1 st of last month with my usual feelings of gratitude for the many kind and friendly attentions I have experienced from you, my having obtruded M r Davèzac letter upon you for translation was inexcuseable for you mention’d in your last , from poplar Forest the little leisure you had for writing while at Monticello but that consideration never came into my...
9Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing is more grateful to my heart than assurances of friendship and remembrance from those I love and esteem. your favor therefore with the Book you may be assured was most joyfully received to hear that M r Randolph had resign’d his Military Commissi on and that the family were all well gave a Zest to the pleasure, God grant that every blessing may be extended to them, that your health and...
10Elizabeth Trist to Thomas Jefferson, 17 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long wish’d to address you but have been deter’d, from a fear of being troublesome, I want to know what you think of the state of our Country at present, The disasters at Washington has been a mortifying and distressing event, but when I had Reason to think that it woud be productive of good in the end, by rousing the people from the torpid State which they were beguiled into, by the...