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

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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.

90 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7309690

University of Virginia. Library

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Monticello (Va.)

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Fogg, John S. H.,

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Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892,

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Great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Photograph of Sarah Nicholas Randolph [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647808071 Great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, author and schoolteacher. From the description of Letters to John William Weidemyer, 1888 April 16 and 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50734429 Great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, author, school teacher. ...

Parton, James, 1822-1891

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English-American writer. From the description of Papers of James Parton [manuscript] 1860-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934391 Author. From the description of Letter of James Parton, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454871 Parton was an American biographer. His The life of Horace Greeley : editor of "The New-York tribune", from his birth to the present time was published in 1872 and his Life of Voltaire was published in 188...

Bacon, Edmund, 1785-

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Overseer at Monticello. From the description of Memoranda book of Edmund Bacon [manuscript], 1802-1822. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807746 ...

Mason, Maria Jefferson Carr Randolph, 1826-1902

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Eppes, Maria, 1778-1804

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Edgehill School (Albemarle County, Va.)

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Dunlop, John S.

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Bernard, William,

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Lego (Albemarle County, Va.)

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Randolph, Caroline Ramsay, 1828-1902,

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Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875

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Randolph family.

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Barnes, John

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Georgetown factor and friend of Jefferson. From the description of Letter to Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 1801 June 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959322 From the description of Letter to Van Staphorst & Hubbard [manuscript], 1801 June 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647807857 Georgetown factor and Jefferson's business agent. From the description of Letters of John Barnes to Charles C. Ludlow, 1798-1805. (Univer...

Eppes, Francis

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Francis Eppes was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson and a long-time resident of Tallahassee, FL; he came to Florida in the 1820's and served as mayor of the city and head of the Seminary West of the Suwannee, which eventually became Florida State College for Women and later Florida State University. From the description of Francis Eppes Letter, 1838. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 40098509 ...

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Coolidge, Joseph, 1798-1879

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Blackburn, Sue Rolston

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Coolidge, Susan, 1835-1905

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American author of stories for girls. From the description of Papers of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, 1876-1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136346 American author of stories for girls; writing under pen name of Susan Coolidge. From the description of Papers of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey [manuscript], 1876-1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844474 ...

Randolph, Cornelia J. (Cornelia Jefferson), 1799-1871

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Randolph, Cary Ruffin, 1857-1910,

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Carr, Sidney S. Nicholas,

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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

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American author and historian. From the description of Letters, 1898, Brooklyn, to Worthington Chauncey Ford. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580858 American historian and novelist. From the description of Papers : of Paul Leicester Ford, 1888-1905. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 29734016 From the description of Typed letter signed : Brooklyn, New York, to [George Haven] Putnam, 189? May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Bolling, Mary Jefferson, 1741-1817

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Monroe, James, 1758-1831

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James Monroe, fifth president of the United States of America (b. April 28, 1758, Monroe Hall, Virginia-d. July 4, 1831, New York, New York) fought with distinction in the Continental Army, and he practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a young politician, he joined the anti-Federalists in the Virginia Convention which ratified the Constitution, and in 1790, an advocate of Jeffersonian policies, he was elected United States Senator. As Minister to France in 1794-1796, Monroe showed strong ...

Clarkson, Reuben,

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Harrison, Eleanora Wayles Randolph, 1824-1896,

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