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This is the draft of a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the last year of his life to a favorite grandchild, Ellen Wayles Randolph, who had recently married a young man from Massachusetts, Joseph Coolidge, Jr., and moved with her husband to their new home in Boston.
I have delayed writing to you, from post to post, my dearest Grandpapa, always hoping that I should be able to announce to you, the conclusion of my bargain for the busts: they are at length deposited in the hands of M r Barnes, and I have procured the engraving from Vanderlyn’s portrait of Col. Monroe, which I shall carry home with me as you desired. the busts are second hand, and one of ...
Martha Jefferson was the eldest child of Thomas Jefferson and of Martha Wayles, widow of Bathurst Skelton. She was born in January 1772, & lost her mother when she was but ten years old. She was one of several children, who all but herself and her sister Maria, afterwards M rs John Wayles Eppes, died in infancy.
Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, Jefferson’s granddaughter. Ellen was the fourth child born to Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph. Ellen was a favorite of her grandfather, Thomas Jefferson. She often rode with him on trips. Ellen called him "her earliest best friend." Ellen was educated by her mother and became an accomplished ...
RC (ViU: Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge Correspondence); mutilated at seal; last sentence of postscript deleted; addressed: “To M rs Joseph Coolidge Jun r Boston Massachusetts”; stamped; postmarked Charlottesville, 8 July; endorsed by Coolidge: “Cornelia.
He presented the desk to his grandson-in-law Joseph Coolidge, Jr., of Boston, who had married Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, one of his favorite granddaughters. He attached an affidavit to the desk: Monticello. Nov. 18, 1825.
From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 29 June 1807. Washington June 29. 07. My dear Ellen.
