1From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 27 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your affectionate letter, my dear Ellen, of the 1 st inst. came to hand in due time. the assurances of your love, so feelingly expressed, were truly soothing to my soul, and none were ever met with warmer sympathies. we did not know, until you left us, what a void it would make in our family. imagination had illy sketched it’s full measure to us: and, at this moment, every thing around serves...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 14 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Oct. 13. to mr Coolidge, I gave an account of the riot we had had at the University, and of it’s termination. you will both of course be under anxiety till you know how it has gone off?—with the best effects in the world. having let it be understood, from the beginning, that we wished to trust very much to the discretion of the Students themselves for their own government. with...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter has been written near a fortnight and has laid by me awaiting a pacotille which your Mama was making up of some things omitted to be sent to you with those so unfortunately lost. that is now made up and will be immediately forwarded to Richmond to the care of Col o Peyton. Privately owned.
4From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 19 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th was recieved the day before yesterday, and as the season for engrafting is passing rapidly by I will not detain the apple-cuttings for mr Gray, until I may have other matter for writing a big letter to you. I send a dozen cuttings, as much as a letter can protect, by our 1 st mail, and wish they may retain their vitality until they reach him. they are called the...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 5 June 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
A word to you, my dearest Ellen, under the cover of mr Coolidge’s letter. I address you the less frequently, because I find it easier to write 10 letters of business, than one on the intangible affections of the mind. were these to be indulged as calls for writing letters to express them, my love to you would engross the unremitting exercises of my pen. I hear of you regularly however, thro’...