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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Papers of Thomas Jefferson and the Randolph family, 1784-1918.

Title: Papers of Thomas Jefferson and the Randolph family, 1784-1918.

The majority of the Jefferson items are financial papers, including accounts with James Monroe, although a few convey family news. The remainder of the collection is an assortment of correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Randolph family. It contains financial papers, printed reminiscences, obituary notices, poetry, and architectural drawings. Topics include the publication of books by Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Sarah Nicholas Randolph, the settling of Jefferson's estate, refutation of libel against Jefferson by overseer Edmund Bacon in Parton's biography, the Edgehill school run by the Randolph sisters, and the last illnesses and deaths of several family members. Correspondents include John Barnes, William Bernard, Sue B. Blackburn, Mary Jefferson Bolling, Sidney S. Nicholas Carr, Reuben Clarkson, Joseph Coolidge, Susan Coolidge, John Dunlop, Francis Eppes, Maria Jefferson Eppes, John S.H. Fogg, Paul Leicester Ford, Eleanora Wayles Randolph Harrison, Maria Jefferson Carr Randolph Mason, and Caroline Ramsay Randolph. Other correspondents include Cary Ruffin Randolph, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, Cary Anne Nicholas Randolph Ruffin, Eliza McDonald Ruffin, Eliza McDonald Ruffin, John Speyer, Jefferson Randolph Taylor, Patty Taylor, Nicholas Philip Trist, and William Fanning Wickham.

ArchivalResource: 90 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254250 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter [manuscript] : Philadelphia, to Maria Jefferson Eppes, 1798 January 7.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : Philadelphia, to Maria Jefferson Eppes, 1798 January 7.

Jefferson's comments on his sister's inability to deal with her alcoholic husband, John Bolling, lead him into a general sermon on happiness in marriage through consideration and forbearance, and observations on how economy will be necessary in the depressed future of Virginia agriculture. Jefferson also advises Maria to cultivate the affections of her in-laws, urges her to write to Kitty Church, and asks her to send her watch to Philadelphia for repair.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter : Philadelphia, to Maria Jefferson Eppes, 1798 January 7.

Title: Letter : Philadelphia, to Maria Jefferson Eppes, 1798 January 7.

Jefferson's comments on his sister's inability to deal with her alcoholic husband, John Bolling, lead him into a general sermon on happiness in marriage through consideration and forbearance, and observations on how economy will be necessary in the depressed future of Virginia agriculture. Jefferson also advises Maria to cultivate the affections of her in-laws, urges her to write to Kitty Church, and asks her to send her watch to Philadelphia for repair.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254329 View