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Burke, Martha Jefferson Trist, 1826-1915. Jefferson, Randolph and Trist family papers, 1791-1874.

Title: Jefferson, Randolph and Trist family papers, 1791-1874.

Jefferson items include a copy or draft of a customs declaration 1791 Feb. 28 about the importation of wine by Jefferson and a letter, 1824 May 4, James Michael O'Connor to Jefferson sending a book and commenting on the current election. The collection contains a commonplace book, 1825-1908, of Mary Jefferson Randolph and Martha Jefferson Trist Burke which contains an entry by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette. Also included is a letter of Elizabeth House Trist describing Lafayette's visit, five letters of Cornelia Jefferson Randolph to Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist and Nicholas Philip Trist about her trip to Boston, manners of the Bostonians, life in the Coolidge house and Virginia's and Ellen Coolidge's babies. Other items include Trist's appointment as Acting Secretary of State by James K. Polk; a pamphlet containing the Proceedings of the Committee Appointed by the Citizens of New York at Their Meeting Held [1 May 1826] for the Relief of Mr. Jefferson; a copy of Trist's 1850 letter to Winfield Scott about his financial situation and claims against the government, and his misunderstandings with Polk. Further items include: The Last Days of Jefferson, by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, refuting Edmund Bacon's narrative on the same subject; a floor plan of Monticello drawn by Cornelia J. Randolph and her sketch of a column at Monticello; a bread pudding recipe of Martha Jefferson Randolph; a list of linens at Monticello; a child's note; and the words of two songs.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

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Randolph family. Papers, 1834-1838.

Title: Papers, 1834-1838.

Correspondence between members of the Randolph family concerning weather, health, the engagement and marriage of Meriwether Lewis Randolph and Elizabeth Martin, travels, the death of Lewis Randolph and settlement of his estate, and other family news. Correspondents include Joseph Coolidge, Elizabeth Martin Randolph Donelson, Cary Anne Randolph, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Mary Jefferson Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, and Septima Randolph. Also included is a copy of an agreement concerning the division of land in Arkansas in which Lewis Randolph was a partner.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. The Life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth [manuscript], ca. 1819.

Title: The Life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth [manuscript], ca. 1819.

This manuscript version of Jefferson's cut and pasted book was copied by Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, Mary Jefferson Randolph and Martha Jefferson Randolph from a volume now in the National Museum (Smithsonian).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647896752 View

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868. Papers of the Trist, Burke, and Randolph families [manuscript] 1832-1886.

Title: Papers of the Trist, Burke, and Randolph families [manuscript] 1832-1886.

Chiefly the correspondence (drafts) and notes of Nicholas P. Trist relating to his activities in the peace negotiations with Mexico, 1847-1848, and to his controversy with Generals Scott and Pillow. Included is a copy of the "Leonidas letter" with annotations by Trist. Persons mentioned and correspondents include James Buchanan, Caleb Cushing, James L. Franer, Henry W. Hilliard, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, Maj. Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, and R.C. Winthrop. The collection also includes a manuscript map, Mapa de la Sierra Gorda, 1848, with annotations by Robert E. Lee. The remaining portion of the collection pertains to the Trist and related families and includes the correspondence of Martha Jefferson Trist Burke, John Woolfolk Burke, Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, Sidney Coolidge, E.H. Janne, Lewis Randolph, Mary Jefferson Randolph, Mary Page Randolph, and Virginia Jefferson Trist. A letter of April 19, 1865 discusses the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 175 items.

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Coolidge, Ellen Wayles Randolph, 1796-1876. Correspondence of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1810-1861.

Title: Correspondence of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1810-1861.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence between Ellen Coolidge and her mother Martha Jefferson Randolph, and sisters Virginia Trist, Cornelia Randolph and Mary Randolph. They discuss family and friends; trips to Richmond, Philadelphia and Baltimore; life in Boston, and at Monticello and Poplar Forest; the University of Virginia students, faculty and Board of Visitors; Thomas Jefferson's illness and death, debts, the proposed lottery, and the sale of Monticello and his slaves. Also Martha Randolph's life in Washington and continuing financial problems; the careers of Joseph Coolidge in the China trade, Nicholas Trist in the diplomatic service, Benjamin Franklin Randolph in medicine and George Wythe Randolph in the navy; and the publication of "Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson. Other topics of interest include Richmond dentistry, 1819; the panic of 1819 and financial ruin of Wilson Cary Nicholas; Thomas Mann Randolph's strained relations with his family; Lafayette's visit to Monticello; the sale of Jefferson's paintings; Harvard College politics; historian Jared Sparks; Nat Turner's rebellion; the Hemings family, Ellen's maid Sally [Cottrell Coles]; and contrasts between slaves in the South and domestic servants in New England. The collection also contains autobiographical reflections by Ellen Coolidge and a volume of copies of correspondence between Ellen Coolidge and Henry Stephens Randall concerning Jefferson and his family.

ArchivalResource: 251 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51207509 View

Meikleham-Randolph-Trist-Coolidge Family Papers, 1799-1887

Title: Meikleham-Randolph-Trist-Coolidge Family Papers 1799-1887

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Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828. Letter to Mary Jefferson Randolph, Tufton [Va.] [manuscript] 1826 Dec. 13.

Title: Letter to Mary Jefferson Randolph, Tufton [Va.] [manuscript] 1826 Dec. 13.

Replying to her letter, and mentioning plans for his departure.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Burke, Frances Maury, 1861-1933,. Trist-Burke family papers, 1834-1936, bulk 1836-1889.

Title: Trist-Burke family papers, 1834-1936, bulk 1836-1889.

The collection contains two items in Jefferson's hand: a copy of Byron's poem "Enigma," and a memo of mileage distances to Poplar Forest. Correspondence of the Trist and Burke families chiefly conveys news of family and friends with many scattered references to political events of the day including the Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidaljo negotiated by Nicholas P. Trist, the election of 1844, the Wilmot Proviso, the Civil War, which divided the family, and Reconstruction in Alexandria, Va. Other subjects of interest include Thomas Jefferson Trist's education in Philadelphia, particularly his art studies, and Thomas Jefferson's religious philosophy. There are also brief mentions of Henry Ward Beecher, Robley Dunglison, the 1863 New York draft riots, a speech by Alexander H. Stephens, renovations of Monticello, and the Trumbull portrait of Jefferson. Architectural materials include a copy of Jefferson's plan for the "Parlor floor at Monticello" and one for his first version of the home. With these are a list of sources for the column style of each University of Virginia pavilion, and a drawing of "Tristford," an ancestral home in Devonshire. Copies of Jefferson family material include letters between Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell on hedges; inventories of the estates of Peter Jefferson and Jane Jefferson; the will of Peter Jefferson; and the will of Jane Randolph Jefferson which mentions apportionment of slaves. The diary of Martha Burke, 1878-1889, contains Burke genealogies and news of family and friends. With it are Burke's notebook listing Monticello relics and nursery songs sung by Martha Jefferson Randolph, a scrapbook of clippings, 1875, and a volume of tributes to Charlottesville Railroad director John Woolfolk Burke. Miscellaneous material includes a collection of riddles; 19th century German maps; an 1856 Fremont pamphlet; a marriage certificate for Thomas Jefferson Trist signed by Thomas Gallaudet and resolutions, 1890, adopted by the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb eulogizing Trist; and newsclippings chiefly pertaining to Jefferson descendants and Monticello.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

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Burke, Martha Jefferson Trist, 1826-1915,. Papers of the Trist, Randolph, and Burke families [manuscript], 1721-1969 (bulk 1800-1861).

Title: Papers of the Trist, Randolph, and Burke families [manuscript], 1721-1969 (bulk 1800-1861).

The collection contains the correspondence of several generations of the Trist family and generally concerns family matters. The largest number are from Tryphena Pendarves re the education of her intended heir Hore Browse Trist [1832-1896] and his disputed inheritance. The correspondence of Nicholas Philip Trist includes letters to him at West Point and from him during his consulship at Havana. There is considerable genealogical information in the letters of Nicholas Browse Trist and Martha Jefferson Trist Burke and much about the game of whist. Of interest is a letter from Thomas Mann Randolph re the suicide of a slave and his theories of slave discipline. Other topics include the religious beliefs of Daniel Webster; John Randolph of Roanoke's challenging of Webster to a duel; an 1857 voyage to Rio de Janiero on the U.S.S. Vandalia; the money owed to Nicholas P. Trist for his Mexican War negotiations; and advice on good conduct from Thomas Jefferson to Cornelia Jefferson Randolph. There are copies of other Jefferson letters as well. The collection also contains the journal, 1783, of Elizabeth House Trist of a journey from Philadelphia to Louisiana, overland to Pittsburgh and by raft down the Ohio and Mississippi; the diary, 1791-1792, of a foreign student in Switzerland; and reminiscences, ante 1836, of Thomas Jefferson by Martha Jefferson Randolph. Nicholas Philip Trist material includes his Cuban journal, his memorial, 1848, to Congress re his salary, his memorial "To my country," and his notes and drafts for "A state," and "The power of the state." Later material includes an account of the death of George Wythe Randolph by Sarah Nicholas Randolph; a sketch of Nicholas Trist by Hore Browse Trist; "A diplomat with ideal," 1923, by Louis Martin Sears; a ficticious journal of an unknown Southern maiden; and "At Totness," an account of the Louisiana Trists during the Civil War. In addition there are family certificates, indentures, appointments, commissions, artifacts, newsclippings, military passes signed by Winfield Scott, photographs, and a manuscript map of the battle of Carnifex Ferry. Correspondents include Harry Flood Byrd, Joseph Coolidge, Hamilton Fish, Schuyler Hamilton, Herbert Hoover, Lady Caroline Melfort, Henry Stephens Randall, Mary Jefferson Randolph, Mary Louise Brown Trist Jones Tournillon, Elizabeth House Trist, Hore Browse Trist [1775-1804], Hore Browse Trist [1802- 1856], Nicholas Trist, Virginia Jefferson Randolph Trist, and Thomas Jefferson Trist. Papers of the Trist, Randolph and Burke families, 1800-1960, Accession #10487, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817519 View

Meikleham, Septimia Randolph, 1814-1887. Randolph-Meikleham family papers [manuscript], 1792-1882.

Title: Randolph-Meikleham family papers [manuscript], 1792-1882.

Papers, 1820-1882, of Septimia Randolph Meikleham, include correspondence concerning Monticello, Edgehill, the University of Virginia, family matters, social life in Virginia, Boston, Mass., and Washington, D.C., her schoolmates in Cambridge, Mass., travel in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, courtship, and fashion; narratives about the Lewis and Clark expeditions, Monticello, and James and Dolley Madison; legal papers; and poetry. The papers also contain miscellaneous correspondence, 1836-1839, of the Randolph, Meikleham, Coolidge, and Bankhead families, concerning family and social matters, travelling to Havana, Cuba, and a trip to Philadelphia, Pa., during which Martha Jefferson Randolph sat for a portrait by Thomas Sully; and three letters, 1840-1844, from Dolley Madison to Septimia Randolph Meikleham relating to social and family matters, and specifically Meikleham's marriage. Of particular note are letters from Meriwether Lewis Randolph concerning life in the frontier town of Little Rock, Ark., including fighting off wolves; a letter, 28 August 1825, from John Hemings, a slave, to Septimia Randolph pertaining to the grounds at Poplar Forest; a letter, ca. 1829, from Martha Jefferson Randolph, Lynchburg, Va., to Septimia Randolph, Edgehill, Va., providing an account of her trip to Lynchburg, sewing; and a letter from George Wythe Randolph, 1860 October 14, speculating on the effect of Lincoln's election on the South. There is also a letter, 1843 October 2, from Edward Everett, London, Eng., involving the "Cary estate" and his admiration for Thomas Jefferson; and a letter, 30 January 1878, from Charles Stewart Parnell, Rathdrum, Ireland, to Septimia Randolph Meikleham, concerning his mother's visit to the United States. Of particular interest are a letter, 1792 November 2, from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, concerning family matters and Virginia politics and mentioning Madison and Monroe; a letter, 1820 April 17, from John St. George Randolph, Amelia County, Va., to Thomas Mann Randolph, Richmond, Va., on the dismissal of an overseer; and a list, ca. 1821, in Thomas Jefferson's hand, of slaves' bread distribution. A letter from Archibald Cary at the University of Virginia, to Septimia Randolph, 1834 Dec. 15, mentions that her "acquaintance A. F. E. Robertson (the young man you saw at Davis' & thought so handsome) was shot in the back by an old fellow, while endeavoring to take a dead negro for our anatomical dissections." Additional items include drafts of poems by Septimia Randolph, and Mrs. Hemans, fragments of Cornelia Randolph's music, and a photograph of an unidentified family home.

ArchivalResource: 183 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647874530 View