1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 16 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you most heartily for the information your last letter contained and beg you to favor me with communications concerning the French whenever you have leisure as we may expect the grossest misrepresentations in the papers and I feel myself warmly interested in their affairs. Their late misfortunes have excited a general sorrow in this part of the country: all persons with whom I have...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 22 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote last a parcel of bonds to the amount of 560 £ have been deposited with me for you by Bowling Clarke. Those taken by Mr. Hylton for Elkhill have not yet come into my hands: according to your desire I should have brought them up with me but I left Richmond with an expectation of returning in a day or two, which did not happen. We are apprehensive of great loss in our grain from the...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A report of your having resigned your office is in circulation here and receives great credit from us mostly perhaps because we wish to have it so but considerably too from our not having received letters as usual by the two last posts: we conclude that the hurry of preparing for your departure and the expectation of seeing us soon have prevented your writing. We are strongly impressed with...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 13 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
You will observe by the abstract of my diary that we have had an uncommon proportion of rainy weather this spring; our fields of Wheat and Rye from this will give a smaller and a meaner product than we have hitherto expected from them. The plants, where they were tall and stood close, have “lodged” as the farmers term it and of course cannot perfect the grain; where this has not happened many...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 19. ult: with Pollies of the same date only reached us last night. My letters I am convinced must not unfrequently be as slow in geting to you: how this happens, sometimes, I have just discovered, and will take care to prevent it from that cause in future. Our postmaster closes the mail for Richmond at no certain hour, alltho, he has given out, that it will be dispatched allways...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 11 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We received your favors of June 24. and 30. on the 9. inst. at night. We are extremely happy to learn that Maria has got well over the mumps. I send you now the scheme of cultivation which I formed last year and am adopting at Edgehill. An indisposition, and the preparation for a journey to Richmond prevent my accompanying it with any comment at present. You will observe that it differs from...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 19 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just been with Mr. Browns Clerks to make enquiry concerning the package of the Servants Cloaths which you sent last fall. He is not in town himself: from them I can learn nothing more than I have hitherto received. They do not remember that it came to them. Your furniture &c. is safely deposited in a lumber-house at Rockets. Mr. Browns Clerks inform me that you have ordered a part of it...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I prepare now to give you some reasons according to promise for my preference of the plan of cultivation I transmitted you 3 weeks since to the one you did me the honor to consult me on. The system of small fields in my plan, is nothing more than an extension of method beyond what you thought requisite in farming. The crops of this rotation, alltho of small value comparatively, are yet worth a...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 14 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have set George and his company to work in the canal according to your desire: Jupiter is with them and is constantly employed in blowing the rock at the upper end which it was their first business to lay bare for him. Part of the timber intended for the house has been brought up, and the remainder will be in place before the middle of next month. The two houses for the servants I am sorry...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We received two packets from you on the 20. inst. one of July 21. and another of Aug: 11. The former thro’ the negligence of the post-master somewhere, was sent to Kentucké. Some accident of this kind has happened probably to your last, as it did not come to Charlottesville in the mail. Your friend Mr. Madison has spent several days in our neighbourhood: he did us the honor of a visit on...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 31 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Randolph arrived yesterday with the packet for Mr. Madison which I delivered immediately to a trusty messenger, charging him to put it into no hands, but those of Mr. Madison himself. The messenger was directed to go first to Colo. Monroes and afterwards to Wilson Nicolases, as I knew Mr. Madison was in the county but knew not which of these places he was at. My Brother, who came yesterday...