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The papers\n         include correspondence between \n          Peter Carr (1770-1815), nephew of \n          Thomas Jefferson , \n          Hester \"Hetty\" Smith Stevenson\n         Carr (1767-1834), \n          George Pitt Stevenson (d.1819), \n          Dabney S. Carr (1802-1854), \n          Maria Jefferson Carr (1804-1825), \n          Jane Margaret Carr Cary (1809-1903), \n          Wilson Miles Cary (1806-1877), \n          Wilson Jefferson Cary (1784-1823), and \n          Virginia Randolph Cary (1786-1852), with\n         other members of the \n          Jefferson , \n          Randolph , \n          Carr , and \n          Cary families.","All Thomas Jefferson correspondence has been transferred to\n         the Thomas Jefferson Papers and is not listed in this guide.\n         The Jefferson letters are included in the calendar \n          The Jefferson Papers of the University of\n            Virginia compiled by Constance E. Thurlow and Francis L.\n         Berkeley, Jr. available in the Special Collections Reading\n         Room and on the Special Collections web page under Digital\n         Resources \u0026 Exhibitions -Guides to the Collections.","Topics include family and social news of \n          Charlottesville, Virginia , and \n          Baltimore, Maryland , agricultural matters\n         and plantation life; relationships between slaves and their\n         owners; family advice, education and study of law; the\n         increasing financial distress of the period and other\n         financial matters of the family; religious thought; local and\n         national politics; scattered references to the \n          University of Virginia and Thomas\n         Jefferson; with genealogical notes by \n          Wilson Miles Cary .","Topics also include proposed and subsequent sale of\n         Carrsbrook; the sale, hire, and purchase of family slaves;\n         Hetty Carr's move to Baltimore; a fight between \n          Charles Lewis Bankhead and \n          Thomas Jefferson Randolph and its after\n         effects; \n          John Addison Carr 's career in the navy;\n         concern for dental care; the controversial proposal of either\n         a lottery ora subscription for the financial relief of Thomas\n         Jefferson; and travel to \n          Florida . The papers also contain\n         correspondence, 1793-1807, of \n          Thomas Mann Randolph (1768-1828,\n         son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, concerning agricultural and\n         social matters; the possible engagement of \n          John Leslie as a tutor for the \n          Randolph family ; a letter, 1802, from\n         Thomas Mann Randolph to Peter Carr concerning his plans to\n         respond to \n          James Thomson Callender 's accusation\n         against Thomas Jefferson, and his decision not to do so; and a\n         letter, 1826, from Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875)\n         concerning Thomas Jefferson's death and desire for keeping his\n         father from misusing money from Jefferson's estate.","The papers also contain a letter, 1797, from \n          George Washington commenting on the\n         divisive nature of politics and on political attacks aimed at\n         him; a letter, 1800, from \n          James Monroe regarding the hire of slaves\n         and financial matters; a statement, 1814, by \n          Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead on Thomas\n         Jefferson Randolph's courtship and marriage to \n          Jane Hollins Nicholas (1798-1871); an\n         obituary, 1815, of Peter Carr by \n          William Wirt ; two student essays by Peter\n         Carr; and poems by \n          Virginia Randolph Cary .","Financial documents consist of receipts for payments of\n         fees for Peter Carr at \n          William \u0026 Mary College ; receipts for\n         payments of fees related to the education of D. Terrell and\n         George P. Stevenson; Peter Carr's account with \n          Hollins \u0026 McBlair of Baltimore; a\n         receipt for blacksmith work; Hetty Carr's memorandum\n         concerning money due her from Robert Carter Nicholas from a\n         plantation in \n          Louisiana ; accounts of Mrs. Virginia\n         Cary; and an account of the estate of Wilson J. Cary.","Sources for information about the Carr \u0026 Cary families\n         include: \n          The Virginia Carys by Fairfax Harrison, \n          The Carr Family Records by Edson I. Carr, and \n          The Carrs of Albemarle a University of Virginia History Thesis by Elizabeth\n         Dabney Coleman.","[advises further practical study in England,\n               mentioning the mines of Derbyshire, the canals \u0026\n               works of the Duke of Bridgewater, the pottery methods of\n               Mr. Wedgwood, the libraries at the University of Oxford,\n               and the natural history specimens and antiquities in the\n               museums of London, and suggests some books to read (1788\n               May 12); anxiously inquires if he has heard anything\n               from Thomas Jefferson on the subject of his own possible\n               immigration to America to continue as Randolph's teacher\n               (1788 Jun 22); informs Randolph of his terms for\n               employment in Virginia (1788 Aug 2); refers to his stay\n               in Virginia in 1789, his happiness at the news of\n               Randolph's marriage, his connection to the Wedgwood\n               family, his paper \n                Observations on Electrical Theories , encouragement to complete the natural history\n               of Virginia which his father-in-law had sketched (1792\n               Sep 27), all these letters are bound together; regrets\n               at leaving the Randolph family, request for seeds to be\n               sent to him in Scotland, and his impressions of\n               Philadelphia (1789 Jun 16); his stay at Etruria,\n               Staffordshire with the Wedgwoods and the marriage of\n               Randolph (1790 Jul 23); and his letter of introduction\n               for John Wilson, mentioning the conflict between Great\n               Britain and the United States (1807 Aug 28)]","[assures her of his affection and tells of his plans\n               to accompany Captain Lilly with Mrs. Griffin, to New\n               York City, where he hopes to see many of the important\n               men of the new Congress, including James Madison and his\n               uncle, Thomas Jefferson, after his return from\n               France]","[suggests that William try to buy lime in Richmond,\n               James is setting out for Varina Grove with the horses\n               for Mr. Hughes and will also have the deed for Edgehill\n               to present to Colonel Randolph for his acknowledgment of\n               the signature, and mentions the necessity of hiring\n               labor to help in his wheat fields]","[mentions his child Ann Cary (1791-1826), and the\n               upcoming Christmas party at Beverly Randolph's]","[congratulates him upon his approaching marriage (in\n               June 1797?) to Hester Smith Stevenson]","[discusses political divisions and the attacks made\n               upon those in government, perhaps referring to the John\n               Nicholas affair]","[discusses how Dr. Walker has violated the principle\n               that the public interest should be preferred to private\n               advantage]","[discusses his suit in the District Court, Lexington,\n               Kentucky, over land in the forks of the [Elkhorn?]\n               River, and their hope that Thomas Jefferson will win the\n               election]","[the murder of [Samuel] Burch of Charlottesville,\n               Virginia, by George Carter, who was angry over not being\n               allowed in the Burch home to see Betsy Minor; the\n               natural death of Tom Fleming; the hiring of slave woman\n               Rose by Mr. Lott; the schooling of his stepson, George\n               P. Stevenson, who has a private tutor at the home of\n               Colonel Nicholas, and the sickness of little Jefferson\n               (died in infancy)]","[discusses his financial arrangements to meet his\n               obligations to \"some Jews in Richmond,\" which involve\n               [the slave hire of?] two girls presently with their\n               grandmother \"at the mountain,\"and Lucy who has served\n               her term of three years with Mr. Carr]","[dancing master concerning his account for George P.\n               Stevenson]","[discusses Hetty's (Hester Stevenson Carr) deed for\n               the wharf property and procuring a carriage from\n               Philadelphia for Carr]","[mentions the deed for the warehouse property in\n               Baltimore and offers condolences to Hetty (Hester\n               Stevenson Carr) and Peter Carr on the loss of their son,\n               Jefferson]","[refers to the charges against Thomas Jefferson by\n               James Thomson Callender]","[discusses politics and the Republican party, the\n               report of the Ways \u0026 Means Committee, his desire for\n               Meriwether Jones to become the commissioner of loans,\n               news of the Spanish troops disembarking at New Orleans,\n               his expectation that the Louisiana Territory will pass\n               from the French prefect to the United States without\n               difficulty, and the two remaining matters before\n               Congress being the creation of a Louisiana Territory\n               government and the impeachment of a drunken judge]","[discusses horses, family matters, and a duel between\n               Mr. Windom Grimes, of Richmond, and Mr. Terrell, with\n               Wilson J. Cary (1784-1823), Peter Carr's nephew, as his\n               second]","[asks Peter Carr to pay his brother, Dabney Carr\n               (1772-1837) a debt for a horse incurred by Cabell, if it\n               is convenient]","[mentions the sale of slave woman, Nelly and her two\n               children, to Mr. Rothwell for six hundred dollars and\n               the hire of [Sary]","[politics in the Virginia General Assembly and the\n               eloquence of several speeches, especially T.L Preston of\n               Rockbridge]","[reports on his studies at Warren, Virginia, and his\n               boarding at Mr. White's]","[regrets that Rice has beaten him in the election,\n               supposes James Madison will succeed Thomas Jefferson in\n               the presidency and mentions the Embargo]","[advice to Carr on campaigning as a candidate in the\n               state Senate, which he supports]","[asks concerning the possibility of selling his\n               property in Augusta County, Virginia]","[begs Carr to come and visit him before he moves to\n               southwest Virginia]","[assures her he has written to Mr. Divers concerning\n               Louisa, [a slave?]","[describes her travel, searching for items in the\n               Richmond stores for her sister Mary, and the letter has\n               a handwritten genealogical chart o f the Cary\n               family]","[William Newsum (1785-1828) gone to Norfolk on\n               business; includes some additional genealogical notes re\n               the Carr family]","[discusses his children, the progress of his school,\n               marriage of George P. Stevenson, and the election of\n               Dabney Carr as Chancellor of the Winchester\n               District]","[expresses his disappointment that George and Eliza\n               have postponed their trip to Carrsbrook, uncertainty\n               over placing his son Dabney, with George in his counting\n               house if they do not plan to visit very often, and his\n               anxiety that they are going to set up housekeeping for\n               themselves before George has finished his\n               apprenticeship; also mentions the land in Augusta\n               County, Virginia]","[requests he forward any letter of Carr's in his\n               possession]","[forwards the legal opinion of [John] Wickham about\n               money due from the Fairfax estate and holds the other\n               papers for Cary or his agent]","[gives his advice concerning a controversy with Mr.\n               N[elson] and Mr. Eustis involving Carr over an\n               appointment]","[writes concerning a visit of Thomas Jefferson\n               Randolph to Warren, Albemarle County to visit Jane\n               Hollins Nicholas, daughter of Wilson Cary Nicholas and\n               the future wife of T.J. Randolph (on March 16, 1815);\n               apparently the family was upset about remarks that Mrs.\n               Nicholas had supposedly made about Martha Randolph and\n               Ann Bankhead]","[writes concerning her trip to Winchester]","[hopes that Peter Carr's health has improved, tells\n               of difficulties on her journey home, the anxiety of\n               William Newsum over the sale of his Tennessee lands,\n               requests Virginia [Terrell] (1798-1816) to write,\n               mentions the pregnancy of Virginia Randolph Cary (with\n               Archibald Cary, born March 9th) and the fatal sore\n               throat prevalent around King William County]","[answers her letter to Jane (Cary Harrison) who is\n               away, makes arrangements to complete the bonnet to be\n               sent to Mrs. Cocke, and reports that both she and her\n               husband, Jane, and Lucy have all been sick]","[refers to the death of her son, Theodoric Randolph\n               (1794?-1815) and the burdens she bears alone; mentions\n               the possible visit of her sister, Harriet]","[refers to the death of Judith Randolph (1772-1816),\n               sister of Virginia Cary, and her childhood friend, and\n               the plans of Judith's son, John St. George Randolph\n               (1792-1857), to build at \"Bizarre\" and her uncertainty\n               if his uncle, John Randolph of Roanoke, will care for\n               him or not]","[discusses her financial situation, mentions James\n               Overton Carr and his wife, Mary Minor, lists the names\n               of the slaves that she sent to Mr. Kelly's, and warns\n               against early marriage]","[explains why his trunk did not arrive and promises\n               to see it off the next Saturday from Charlottesville,\n               mentions the death of Colonel John Mercer, and the\n               accident of Mr. Battaille]","[wants to get their mother to come to Baltimore and\n               see the surgeon, Dr. Gibson, for her hearing, and tell\n               her about the opportunity for Dabney to work in the\n               insurance office of Uncle Hollins, where he serves as\n               President, and Dabney can continue his studies at\n               night]","[Hetty Carr will set off for Baltimore by the end of\n               the week, and Uncle Samuel Carr hopes to take John A.\n               Carr to Washington to either sail on the Franklin or\n               join the navy, hopefully with a recommendation from\n               Thomas Jefferson]","[did not leave on Saturday because Sam persuaded her\n               to stay for a later stage which was unable to leave\n               because the water was to high, will bring Maria with her\n               to Baltimore, Dabney is delighted to remain there, and\n               notes that Thomas Jefferson did not receive George's\n               letter as soon as he should have, but will send a\n               recommendation to Washington for John A. Carr]","[sends a letter of brotherly advice]","[discusses family and financial affairs, W. Patterson\n               and W. Gilmer will board with her next year, Mr. Craven\n               wants to purchase the slave, Elizabeth, and Hetty Carr's\n               property]","[names the servants they now have, including\n               Anderson, Betsy Anne, and Robert; Jim is hired out to\n               Richard Martin; cannot find white flour in Richmond, and\n               they miss Dabney and Maria]","[full of friendly joking but little news]","[cousin James is building a house, and cousin Martha\n               comes to Carrsbrook every Friday for Ellen to say her\n               lessons, which she describes; Jefferson [Randolph] came\n               by last Sunday and thought Carrsbrook better off than\n               when Hetty left Virginia, he has rented two plantations\n               and 70-80 slaves from his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson,\n               and gives him produce in return]","[writing from Havana, Cuba, instructs Dabney to\n               purchase Commercial \u0026 Farmers Bank stock for Eliza\n               and his children, dividing the balance between himself\n               and Maria]","[discusses financial situation and her desire to sell\n               the plantation, prices of slaves are very high, hopes to\n               eventually live in Baltimore with all her family\n               together]","[letter from a childhood friend]","[worries about selling Carrsbrook, and the education\n               of her girls]","[writes from Havana with business and other\n               instructions]","[letter from two unknown childhood friends, teasing\n               him about marriage]","[mentions his father and Doctor Everet as candidates\n               for the General Assembly]","[urges him to tell her how Eliza and Maria are\n               getting along and asks how Eliza is treating both of\n               them while George is in Cuba]","[mentions the illness of her husband, the visit of\n               William Fitzhugh Randolph, her daughter Jane Cary\n               Randolph and her trouble with her pregnancy, and Lucy\n               Bolling Randolph, and the visit of General [John\n               Hartwell Cocke?] to her husband]","[discusses finances with him, including the\n               possibility of Mr. Kelly buying the plantation and\n               slaves, and her hopes of moving to Baltimore and\n               reuniting the family]","[regrets that she was unable to stop and see her when\n               they returned from \"Bremo,\" her daughter Jane suffers a\n               miscarriage, and cousin Mary Irving sends her love to\n               Virginia; also includes genealogical notes by another\n               writer on the letter]","[discusses business matters and moral\n               instruction]","[discusses the condition of her crops this year, the\n               unwillingness of Mr. Kelly to pay what she believes the\n               plantation and slaves are worth, the necessity of being\n               careful financially, availability of flour at Mr.\n               Peyton's in Richmond for Eliza, and her concern for\n               Maria's use of her time]","[gives her advice, warns her not to try to keep up\n               with her friends, Mary T. and Alicia McBlair in fashion,\n               and her trouble with one of her boarders]","[writes from Cuba, discussing financial affairs]","[asks her to account for the spending of her one\n               hundred dollars, and insists that she gets her teeth\n               filled]","[Eliza has written to her, unreconciled to George\n               remaining in Cuba on business, her concerns about Dabney\n               \u0026 Maria, if Eliza should leave Baltimore to join him\n               there, and the condition of the plantation]","[her concerns about where Dabney and Maria will board\n               if Eliza and her family go to the Charity School,\n               suggests that Robert Smith may ask them to stay with\n               him, worries about who will care for her children,\n               Maria, Hollins, and Jane Margaret, should she die before\n               they are grown, or before Dabney is married]","[writes during her stay in Richmond, mentions the\n               publication of William Wirt's biography of Patrick\n               Henry, and discusses her improvement in dancing]","[letter from childhood friend]","[promises to get General [John George] Jackson, who\n               is on the spot, to investigate his deed to lands on\n               Cedar Creek, near Clarksburg, [West Virginia] and begs\n               his nephew to write to him about his welfare]","[discusses family affairs, her pleasure that Maria\n               has filled her teeth, and Dabney Minor handling the sale\n               of Carrsbrook and her slaves in Fairfax]","[Jefferson and Jane Randolph dined with her at\n               \"Dunlora,\" James [Carr?] has lost a child, and mentions\n               the Trists]","[discusses the prospects of selling Carrsbrook\n               again]","[reports on his efforts to locate a deed to the land\n               on Cedar Creek conveyed by General Smith to Dabney S.\n               Carr]","[his friend and relative discusses the crops on the\n               farm at Carrsbrook and the arrival of Maria there]","[saw Jane Smith and Mary Taylor in Winchester]","[Aunt Betsy is very unwell, encloses the letter from\n               General Jackson (see June 30, 1818)]","[discusses the wheat harvest, the birth of George P.\n               Stevenson's son, and the intention of James Carr to buy\n               Carrsbrook, if he is able to sell his own place]","[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook, if he is able to sell his\n               own place, and has found the deed to Dabney's land on\n               Cedar Creek, West Virginia]","[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook]","[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook, mentions the University of\n               Virginia, \"the good citizens of Charlottesville are on\n               their heads about the University which is shortly to be\n               located,\" which is believed to be fixed at the Central\n               College; mentions James Minor and his efforts concerning\n               the old mill road for his mother, Hetty, and the\n               deliverance of his overseer's wife of twins (the last\n               year she had triplets)]","[the girls are at Jefferson Randolph's, George is\n               exchanging his house for a larger one, further\n               discussions of the intention of James \u0026 Mary Carr to\n               buy Carrsbrook, and her feeling that she must sell\n               everything that cannot be transported by water to\n               Baltimore]","[during a trip to Winchester, describes his rescue of\n               a gig stuck in the mud, his impression of the Alleghany\n               Mountains, and includes a humorous and slightly risque\n               story]","[the offer of Dabney Minor for Carrsbrook, the sale\n               of the slaves Elizabeth and Betsy to R.G. Martin, who\n               offers the same price to Maria for Jenny, asks George to\n               make application so she can transport her slaves, Phil,\n               Betty, Peter, Robert and his wife, Mary, and their two\n               children, Esther and her man]","[provides details of her sale of Carrsbrook to Dabney\n               Minor, and the public sale on November 19th, of her\n               slaves and other property]","[writes from the ship U.S.S. Independence, being a\n               midshipman in the U.S. Navy, and describes a fight he\n               participated in at a theater in [Boston?]","[discusses the results of the sale, and mentions\n               getting a power of attorney for the sale of Ben's\n               family, belonging to George]","[discusses the sale of the family slaves, hoping to\n               sell them to family or to neighbors if possible, the\n               death of the slave named Phil, and the sale of her\n               furniture and furnishings]","[requests that Carr introduce Dr. Bramham into\n               Baltimore society]","[has sent Dabney S. Carr's deed to lands near\n               Clarksburg, [West] Virginia, with a gentleman to be\n               recorded in the court of the newly formed Lewis\n               County]","[business \u0026 moral instructions and the progress\n               of the voyage to Havana]","[discusses business]","[witnesses the fire in the Boston Exchange Coffee\n               House and the subsequent blaze in the Navy Yard, and two\n               midshipmen tried for overstaying their leave on\n               shore]","[describes the sale of the family slaves, and makes\n               arrangements about her furniture]","[worries about the repayment of George's debts, James\n               Carr's purchase of Ben's family, and the arrangements\n               for the sale of the other slaves]","[describes more adventures of the midshipman\n               life]","[reports on the sale of slaves and furniture, Uncle\n               Sam is to marry in a week and Martha and Dabney Minor\n               are to marry]","[business instructions]","[forwards one hundred dollars from his mother to\n               Dabney Carr]","[describes his life on the ship and adventures in\n               swabbing the deck when the temperature was freezing]","[arrangements to come to Baltimore and set up\n               housekeeping with Eliza temporarily, and her concerns\n               over whether her daughter-in-law is really willing for\n               her to come]","[has heard word of George Hollins and John Nicholas\n               on board the Mediterranean, and mentions a brawl in the\n               Boston theater]","[fears that Eliza is no longer interested in a joint\n               housekeeping venture, mentions the marriage of Martha\n               and Dabney Minor, and discusses business]","[discusses business and gives advice]","[writes concerning a slave, Letty, and her concerns\n               about sending her to Georgia to be among strangers or\n               even Louisiana without her consent, despite her being\n               brought home by a constable]","[complains that Maria seldom writes her, reports on\n               the selling of her furniture, longs to see her children\n               and her concerns about housekeeping in Baltimore]","[describes his courting activities in Boston, wonders\n               about the absence of letters from his father, and has\n               not received his orders to The Hornet]","[discusses a check, family affairs, and\n               furniture]","[discusses the merits of Boston girls and Virginia\n               girls, parties, his anger at his father for not writing,\n               and his hopes to sail aboard The Hornet]","[discusses her proposed trip to Baltimore and other\n               business]","[hopes to come to Baltimore in March if the roads are\n               not too bad and discusses family affairs]","[asks if he has gotten permission for her to bring\n               her slaves to Baltimore, trouble over the slave\n               Elizabeth because Samuel Carr neglected to apply to the\n               General Assembly for leave to keep her in Virginia,\n               describes the attack of Charles L. Bankhead upon\n               Jefferson Randolph at court with a knife on February\n               1st, and weakened by his wounds, Randolph remained at\n               the home of Alexander Garrett for awhile until he could\n               be moved; remarks that \"poor Mr. Jefferson was\n               dreadfully agitated when he saw him first\"]","[shares his pride that Virginia has established and\n               endowed the University of Virginia at the location of\n               Central College which will have about 300 students as\n               estimated by Thomas Jefferson]","[glad that Dabney has deferred his plan to marry\n               [Mary Taylor?] until next fall, and the possibility that\n               he may sail on The Columbian]","[asks Dabney to make final arrangements with Mr.\n               Montgomery to bring her and family to Baltimore, asks\n               concerning her letters and what they said about her\n               bargain with Dabney Minor for the land, which is in\n               dispute, and reports on Jefferson Randolph's\n               condition]","[remarks concerning the actions of Charles L.\n               Bankhead, and wishes his friend would visit Monticello\n               and remember John Carr to all the folks there,\n               especially to Mrs. Randolph]","[mentions that Jefferson Randolph is almost restored\n               to health, mentions Dabney Carr, Major Divers, Mrs.\n               Coleman, and Ann Bankhead moving out of the county]","[writes from Carysbrook to his son at the Staunton\n               Academy, mentions General John Hartwell Cocke's\n               willingness to send up his carryall for his son, John\n               Hartwell Cocke (1804-1846) and Wilson, General Cocke\n               believes that soon a grammar school will be established\n               by Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, who has written\n               to Dr. Cooper in Philadelphia about engaging a competent\n               teacher, and neighborhood disasters as a result of\n               fires, including the death of the foreman at Oakhill who\n               had a tree fall on his head]","[mentions Jane Randolph, Virginia's sister, and her\n               daughter Jane [Randolph] who recently had a baby and is\n               still at home with her]","[describes a visit to the Peaks of Otter, the meeting\n               of the Presbytery of Hanover, with sermons by Mr. Rice\n               of Petersburg and Mr. Lyle of Prince Edward, and her\n               experiences in gardening]","[upset that no one has written for two months, has\n               heard that Carrsbrook has burned, and describes his\n               struggles with a runaway sailor in Boston]","[discusses the girls of Boston and asks about family\n               \u0026 friends]","[continues to teach in Louisa County having refused\n               an appointment to West Point, but may emigrate to\n               Pensacola in the fall if he doesn't get married]","[announcing the death of George P. Stevenson in\n               Havana, Cuba, of a fever]","[remarks on the scarcity of money and its effects on\n               the economy, the disadvantages of being a merchant,\n               plans for the wagon with the servants to leave\n               Charlottesville tomorrow, and asks if a Miss Campbell\n               can accompany Hetty Carr for safety]","[his work as a commodore's aid, sorry to hear Hetty\n               is leaving Baltimore so soon, language of Yankee ladies,\n               and the wounding of his friend]","[transferred to The Constellation]","[concerning his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, and his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia]","[sends $120.00 at the request of James O. Carr]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, and advice about a new vocation]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, his land in Lewis County, and asks about the\n               plans of the family]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, his land in Lewis County, Dabney Terrell, and\n               asks about the plans of the family]","[concerning his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia, and an offer to read law in his own\n               office]","[times are very hard, has no overseer at present,\n               reports on the lack of progress of Central College, the\n               notes of the North Carolina banks are refused, saw his\n               friend Jack Carr who left them yesterday, and advises\n               Dabney to quit the mercantile business]","[both her husband and son-in-law, William, have been\n               unwell, William, who has been at the Amelia Springs,\n               will soon go to the Buckingham County Quarterly Court,\n               accompanied by Jane to the home of Charles Irving, and\n               asks if Virginia's daughter, Jane, can come to the\n               dancing school with her children]","[makes arrangements for Dabney to take a position\n               reading law in his office]","[mentions the visit of Martha Jefferson Randolph and\n               Ellen Randolph to Virginia, and discusses the\n               misunderstanding over her comments concerning Mary\n               Campbell, sister of Sally Peachy, to Lelia Barraud;\n               someone has included genealogical notes]","[business and moral instruction]","[instructions and plans for the education of their\n               son, Wilson M. Cary, at the school of Mr. Maury, and\n               refers to the unpleasant dispute between the governor,\n               Thomas Mann Randolph, and the council]","[lists various items he has purchased for Tom\n               Whitlock to bring to her on his return trip, and\n               recounts an account of an exhibition of rope walking at\n               a height of forty feet by a Frenchman, Godeau, at the\n               Eagle Tavern in Williamsburg]","[discusses the sale of several slaves including:\n               Martha and three children to Mr. Hopkins of Goochland\n               County, Polly and two children to Mr. Farrar of Fluvanna\n               County, the need to sell Nancy or Priss, and the\n               interest of T.C. Nelson in Billy, who is the husband of\n               Virginia Cary's cook]","[enumerates the articles sent by him through General\n               John Hartwell Cocke to his wife, describes his social\n               life, especially a large party given by John Rutherford\n               in Richmond, discusses schooling for his son,\n               considering Hamden-Sydney if Mr. Maury's school\n               disappoints, asks his wife to remove the wife and\n               children of slave Julius from their household, instructs\n               her to hire out any slaves she can, except for the boy\n               Billy, and reports the rumor that her niece, Ellen, has\n               Martin Van Buren of New York in her train as a\n               suitor]","[writes concerning the death of Rebecca's\n               [granddaughter?], Anne Martha Cary (1813-1822), and\n               other deaths in her neighborhood, Betsy Bassett, John\n               Bracken, Mary Kennon Cocke Faulcon (1783-1822), and the\n               illness of Mrs. Butler and John Blair Peachy]","[writes concerning the death of their daughter, Anne\n               Martha Cary (1813-1822), her sister, Harriet Hackley, is\n               still confined to her room, and mentions the visit of\n               Henry Clay to the General Assembly and his speech]","[writes of a letter from his son, Wilson Miles,\n               consoling him upon the death of Anne Martha Cary, his\n               son's description of a drowning of a boy, Watson, from\n               Charlottesville, who fell through the ice, and his plan\n               to go down to Hampton, bring up slave Hannah and her\n               family to sell in Richmond]","[shares news of common friends and relatives in\n               Virginia, and asks for a copy of the statutes of\n               Maryland, where he hopes to join the bar]","[discusses religion, a concert by Mrs. French, a\n               letter from his mother mentions the confinement of Mary\n               Jane next month, the upcoming trip of William Newsum\n               (1785-1828) westward, his friends, T.C. Nelson and\n               Griffin Peachy both in town, the legacy of cousin\n               Andrews, and is sending copies of \n                Guy Mannering and \n                The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott]","[river is high at Richmond, her sister Harriet, is\n               much better, met [Joel Roberts] Poinsett, a member of\n               Congress from South Carolina, saw Mrs. Randolph of\n               Wilton, Miss Betsy Andrews, Miss Ballard, Robert \u0026\n               John Andrews, and Doctor Tazewell, plans to attend the\n               last concert of Mrs. French, and mentions the marriage\n               of Griffin Peachy's sister]","[writes from the U.S. Constellation,a depressed\n               letter from Valparaiso, Chile, about his prospects in\n               the Navy, saw The Franklin in this port, and asks for\n               correspondence]","[inquires about his progress in his study of law]","[encloses a draft]","[writes concerning a debt he owes for boots and his\n               pleasure at hearing Dabney is reading law with Judge\n               Dorsey]","[defends the manner of his last payment to Hetty\n               Carr]","[refers again to the debt for boots to Mr. Carson,\n               warns of the dangers of procrastination, for which the\n               Carrs are known, thanks him for a copy of \n                The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott for which he offers a\n               critique, advises him about studying with Judge Dorsey,\n               and looking forward to seeing Jack, knowing their many\n               letters to him have miscarried]","[writes concerning to his son at the Hampden Sydney\n               College, the birth of a daughter, Louisa Hartwell, (who\n               later died April 28, 1823), fires at the homes of Dr.\n               Wills and Joshua Key, the marriage of Mary Elizabeth\n               Randolph, daughter of Thomas Eston and Jane Cary\n               Randolph, to Francis Eppes, son of John Wayles Eppes and\n               Maria Jefferson, and work at the plantation]","[will continue to hire his slave Peter, and Doctor\n               Grayson has told him that his nephew is about to take\n               his place at the bar]","[saw the last performance of [Junius Brutus?] Booth\n               in \n                King Richard , boarding at Mr. Poore's, a cabinet maker,\n               discusses the election of governor, favoring James\n               Pleasants, Jr., saw her sister Harriet Hackley whose\n               husband was detained in New York on business, and the\n               price of ordinary tobacco has fallen considerably]","[Thompson Payne is bringing a bundle to her from\n               himself, which he describes, instruct the overseer to\n               stem their long tobacco this year, asks about the\n               progress on the mill, find out if Mr. Ashlin wishes to\n               hire the slaves, Julius and Jack, and mentions the\n               purchase of slave Polly by Mr. Hopkins of Goochland]","[Happy New Year wishes, bad market in Richmond for\n               slaves, although they hire well, hard financial times,\n               bad management of their property by the overseer, saw\n               Colonel Thomas Mann Randolph who said that Thomas\n               Jefferson was nearly recovered from his accident, and\n               that Randolph was making great profits at Varina, and\n               reports that Harriet Hackley was still physically very\n               weak]","[instructs her to get her sister at Monticello to try\n               and clear up her misunderstanding with the Ashton\n               family, pleased that she did not hire out the slaves to\n               anyone who would use them ill, his debt obligates him to\n               sell one of the slave girls, Priss or Nancy, Martha and\n               her two youngest children sold to Mr. Farrar of\n               Fluvanna, Polly and her children left at Cartersville\n               with Dr. James, Sampson sold in the county, Elizabeth to\n               be sold with her husband in Williamsburg by Dr. Peachy,\n               and the marriage of Juliana Mayo to Dr. R.H. Cabell]","[describes articles he is sending and the money for\n               Wilson]","[must economize due to the difficulty of the times,\n               his dissatisfaction with Hampden Syndney if Wilson is\n               only learning Greek, and an account of his slave\n               sales]","[writes concerning his slave William, the mill\n               repairs, her sister, Harriet Hackley, his sister, Sally\n               Newsum (1788-1841) who is still grieving over the loss\n               of her child, Robert Starke Newsum, and the\n               determination of William Newsum to take his father's\n               claim for $16,000 before Congress]","[hopes the General Assembly session will soon end,\n               and mentions the death of his \"unfortunate Aunt [Sarah?]\n               Fairfax]","[attending the College of William and Mary, visits to\n               Aunt Harriet Hackley and Aunt [Mary Munro] Peachy, his\n               cousin, John Blair, has loaned him many of the books he\n               needs, and describes classes]","[his statement for use in a suit regarding the\n               intended dowry of the wife of John S. Smith]","[inquires about the payment of an annuity left by his\n               grandfather, Wilson Miles Cary, in the hands of her late\n               husband Wilson J. Cary (1784-1823), for Fairfax's\n               mother]","[an account of his difficult voyage as a sailor in\n               the merchant service aboard the Quarantum, sailing from\n               [New York?] with a load of flour for La Guaira,\n               [presently Venzuela], the purchase of cocoa to sell in\n               Tampico, Mexico, the Captain ashore at Havana, where the\n               crew rebelled and attacked him physically demanding\n               higher wages, until he quelled them]","[studying Greek in Charlottesville, boarding with Mr.\n               Hatches, hears from the Monticello family every morning\n               by Ben who comes to Mr. Hatches' school, the upcoming\n               marriage of Ellen Randolph and Joseph Coolidge, and\n               Thomas Jefferson's concerns for his faculty who have not\n               yet arrived at the University of Virginia]","[the mahogany plank arrived at Norfolk, was\n               transferred to the deck of a steamboat bound for\n               Richmond where it remains on the wharf, Carr's mother\n               and the girls have arrived, and mentions interviews with\n               booksellers from Philadelphia]","[describes the poor state of sister Ellen's health,\n               seeing Doctors Gooch and Dunglison]","[writes from Charlottesville, asks about Eliza,\n               reports concerning the improvement in the health of\n               their sister, Ellen]","[concern for Ellen's health, have been staying at\n               Martha's for three weeks, concerns for the cost of their\n               doctor bill, Maria in constant attendance upon her\n               sister, and other business]","[plans to go to Tufton soon, Jane Margaret sick at\n               Woodlands, and attended by Hetty Carr]","[asks him to secure iodine for her throat in\n               Baltimore, his sister Ellen continues to improve, his\n               mother and the baby are at James Carr's, the visit of\n               Uncle Dabney, Aunt Betsy, and Nancy Carr]","[Maria has been ill, Martha's son now with fever,\n               asks why he does not write to his bride elect, which she\n               advises him to do, her regret at not being able to give\n               him a genteel wedding, and discusses the financial\n               troubles of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, who will handle\n               his grandfather's financial affairs]","[writes concerning the sickness of Maria Carr, her\n               own abscessed tooth, asks about her business affairs,\n               the Louisiana sugar plantation business, the expected\n               death of Martha's son, and about Francis Gilmer,\n               professor of law]","[writes from the ship Peruvian, on his way to Lima,\n               Peru, to tell Dabney goodbye]","[discusses the plantation in Louisiana and other\n               business]","[discusses the sale of sugar from the Louisiana\n               plantation in Baltimore, Mrs. Randolph is in great\n               distress over the death of her daughter, Ann Bankhead,\n               fears that Thomas Jefferson will not get permission to\n               have a lottery because it meets with great opposition,\n               but he will suffer great injury without it, and\n               Jefferson is very unwell]","[Thomas Jefferson Randolph has gone to Richmond to\n               beseech the General Assembly to allow a lottery for\n               Thomas Jefferson and she discusses her business\n               affairs]","[is attempting to secure signatures for Dabney's\n               application for a job in the State Department consulate\n               for Columbia but fears that his rival, Mr. Forsyth, has\n               the advantage of prior experience]","[disapproves Dabney seeking a consulate position in\n               South America because he and his wife, Sidney, will be\n               so far away, they will soon visit Dunlora, the lottery\n               bill has passed but tickets can only be sold up to the\n               value of the property by disinterested gentlemen and\n               must include Monticello itself, Thomas Jefferson in\n               dreadful spirits, greatly affected by the death of his\n               sister Anne, says Colonel Randolph, \"has gone on since\n               his daughter's death more like a demon than ever,\" the\n               University of Virginia Board of Visitors have chosen no\n               candidate yet, and Frank Gilmer died and was interred at\n               Pen Park]","[discusses the sugar crop's arrival in Baltimore,\n               Dabney's need for a cooper, suggests Spotswood, except\n               Mr. Garret says he can not sell him unless he gets more\n               than he is worth, and Jefferson Randolph is arranging\n               everything for the lottery for Thomas Jefferson]","[writes to his brother about his school\n               examinations]","[her concern over the lottery and raising enough\n               money for Jefferson to keep Monticello, \"I cannot bear\n               the idea that the graveyard of almost all my family\n               should be sold if I were to draw it is should never be\n               sold it should be kept for a graveyard for every\n               descendant of the Jefferson race\" and the possibility of\n               Dabney Terrell becoming Professor of Law at the\n               University of Virginia]","[discusses the lottery of Thomas Jefferson again,\n               preferring using a subscription to relieve his debt,\n               Jefferson went white when Jefferson Randolph proposed\n               putting Monticello into the lottery, and Uncle Dabney\n               has lost his little boy, Dabney Jefferson Carr\n               (1817-1826)]","[the marketing of the sugar from the plantation,\n               prospects of a loan on the plantation, and other related\n               business]","[discusses plantation affairs, the lottery and\n               subscription to relieve Thomas Jefferson]","[forwarding a statement by John Hancocke concerning\n               Thomas Jefferson and his financial woes to be published\n               in their morning paper]","[fears that to begin subscriptions for the financial\n               relief of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia would injure the\n               chances of success for the lottery]","[discusses the proposal of selling the lottery\n               tickets on Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13th and\n               burning them on July 4th when the Vice-President would\n               present the money to him; and Robert wishes her to\n               secure a blacksmith, cooper, and carpenter while she is\n               still in Virginia]","[repeats the proposal about the lottery described in\n               the previous letter, James Carr is planning on selling\n               his slaves and land, one of whom, Nelson, is a cooper,\n               and the University of Virginia law professor is to be\n               chosen on Monday by the Board of Visitors]","[contains genealogical notes, the conversion of\n               Burwell Randolph to Catholicism, her mother, the health\n               of [Jane Cary Randolph] improved, they may open a school\n               in Bedford, and family and personal news]","[no selection made as yet about the law\n               professorship, but confused by the proposal of William\n               Wirt as professor]","[instructions for their return to Baltimore]","[laments the death of Thomas Jefferson, wishing that\n               it had been Colonel Randolph who might have been taken\n               instead but who remains to \"torment his family a little\n               longer,\" her Aunt Maria is to petition the General\n               Assembly for a divorce, and sends greetings from Wilson\n               Cary Newsum (1808-1875) presently at the University of\n               Virginia]","[anecdotes of Thomas Jefferson's last days, warns of\n               the attempts of his father, Colonel Thomas Mann\n               Randolph, to get the money raised by selling lottery\n               tickets for Jefferson, and the disposal of Jefferson's\n               estate]","[writing from Monticello, describes a concert given\n               by dwarves in Charlottesville, mentions Jane Margaret's\n               suitor, Wilson M. Cary, whom she defends]","[writes concerning his examinations]","[concerning the publication of an enclosed circular\n               by Thomas Jefferson found in one of his scrapbooks]","[concerning the purchase of slaves]","[his statement advocating a subscription to relieve\n               the \"Patriot of Monticello\" (Thomas Jefferson)]","[needs the money from Reeder's bonds]","[writes of personal affairs, offering religious\n               encouragement and perspective, heard that John Cocke is\n               at White Sulfur [Springs]","[thanks her for her suggestions about his preaching,\n               and mentions his financial difficulties with his present\n               salary]","[while studying law with Henry St. George Tucker in\n               Winchester, writes concerning the death of his Uncle\n               Miles, his father's only brother (1789-1827), in Alabama\n               while exploring the Southwest, and warns his mother to\n               keep Archibald constantly in school without\n               interruptions]","[reports concerning a meeting of the supporters of\n               his political opponent]","[shares social and family news, refers to the death\n               of her daughter, Elizabeth Griffin Peachy Webb, and\n               includes many genealogical notes]","[hopes to leave Philadelphia for Baltimore on\n               Monday]","[refers to the papers forwarded by her for the editor\n               of \n                Remember Me ]","[writing from the Union Theological Seminary, refers\n               to her literary labors, and the progress of revival\n               services]","[asks for assistance in securing a steam boat between\n               Norfolk and Baltimore]","[Wilson died at the plantation in Louisiana]","[mentions the upcoming marriage of Virginia's\n               daughter, Mary Randolph Cary (1811-1887) and Dr. Orlando\n               Fairfax (1806-1882) and religious matters]","[the death of Wilson at the plantation in\n               Louisiana]","[writes concerning Mrs. Flournoy?]","[the nature of his examinations at Union Theological\n               Seminary and religious matters]","[writes concerning the death of William Newsum\n               (1785-1828), the estate of Miles Cary of \"Oak Hill,\" and\n               other news of family and friends]","[the cost of the publication of the Baltimore \n                Republican ]","[inquires as to the status of his possible\n               appointment under Andrew Jackson's administration]","[discusses the status of his possible appointment\n               under Andrew Jackson's administration]","[reports concerning Andover Theological Seminary]","[family and personal news]","[the birthday of Martha Jefferson Hackley\n               (1824-?)]","[asks Jefferson to let Thrimston remain to help\n               Gorman repair the portico which has been ripped up,\n               revealing the red dirt underneath, or they will all be\n               mired in the dining room]","[if possible Ann will wait for Mr. Nicholas tomorrow,\n               but after that the Madisons will be with them]","[legal advice to appeal to a judicial tribunal to\n               decide upon and assign to Virginia her rights, and call\n               the person in question (the administrator?) to account;\n               and to secure a copy of the will]","[discusses Virginia's prospective school and encloses\n               the receipt from John Gordon]","[sends a box of Bibles from the Bible Society of\n               Virginia to be distributed in Fluvanna County]","[family news, the birth of twin boys to Ellen\n               Coolidge, and plans to use the garret for a school\n               room]","[her beloved Cary has been at the point of death for\n               20 days, has gotten a letter from Lucius Cary, Aunt\n               Hetty Carr and Wilson Cary, when he and Jane Margaret\n               Carr are married, will live in Mr. Davis's new house,\n               and mentions the financial ruin of the Buchannons]","[discusses the sale and distribution of Bibles in\n               Fluvanna County]","[the marriages of Virginia's son, Wilson Miles Cary\n               to Jane Margaret Carr (1809-1903), and daughter, Jane\n               Blair (1808-1888) to the Rev. Edward Dunlap Smith, of\n               New York, and the serious illness of Mrs. Betsy\n               Carr]","[includes genealogical notes, describes her school,\n               financial terms, and her teacher, welcomes the addition\n               of scholar Virginia Pasture, and her sympathy for\n               motherless children]","[grateful that her son, John, survived an attack of\n               cholera on his ship, fears that Jefferson Randolph's\n               decision to run for office will bring about financial\n               ruin, Jane has received a check from the Proctor at the\n               University of Virginia, asks about the folks at\n               Montebello and John Smith, mentions people at\n               Monticello, and the birth of boys to both Virginia Trist\n               and Jane Smith]","[describes her voyage from Baltimore to St. Augustine\n               on the General Marion, the storm off Cape Hatteras, the\n               rough seas on the way to Charleston drove them past he\n               port to Sullivan's Island and they had to sail back,\n               upon their arrival the mists were too thick to attempt\n               to enter the port of Charleston, another ship collided\n               with her vessel while at anchor and damaged it, though\n               it did not sink, they took a little schooner Samuel\n               Mills the rest of the way, encountering a strong gale\n               near Florida, and her thankfulness that little Sally was\n               safe at home with Sidney]","[reports on the improvements in her health, the many\n               others in Florida who do not appear able to recover, and\n               the purchase of Indian ponies by Wilson]","[discusses the improvements in her health, religion,\n               her separation from her little girl, and their projected\n               trip back home from Florida]","[plans to leave Florida on the schooner S.S. Mills\n               next week, praises the climate of Florida but not its\n               civilization, discusses the health of Jane Margaret, and\n               their plan \"to try the leeches\" for her throat in\n               Charleston, and mentions the financial panic, where even\n               the office holders in Florida are cursing President\n               Jackson]","[has had a conversation with Mr. Barney who promises\n               that nothing further on an unnamed subject would be\n               published in \n                The Patriot ]","[writes from St. Charles County, Missouri, studying\n               law with Mr. Bates, his father's farm doing well,\n               especially with his tobacco crop, his sickness, and all\n               the agues promoted by the number of swamps and ponds\n               nearby, most of the immigrants are from Virginia,\n               Tennessee, and Kentucky, and the beautiful spring season\n               in Missouri]","[the hire of slave Peter]","[writes of events at home to his older brother, his\n               schooling, and the whipping of the slave Peter]","[their son's health has improved but his behavior has\n               worsened since his father has been in Washington]","[writes to her brother, Ellen has gone to Richmond\n               with cousin Betsy and cousin James to have her teeth\n               filled, the fruit in the neighborhood is killed and the\n               Blue Ridge Mountains filled with snow]","[William Patterson has gone away, and paid for a\n               hatchet before he could get it]","[plans to leave Dabney with Mr. Hollins if possible,\n               her sympathy for Eliza because she will not accompany\n               George [to Cuba?]","[discusses the sale of her slaves, which would bring\n               more in a public sale but she prefers to sell privately\n               to those she knows, and other business affairs]","[asks to borrow a glass lamp because one of hers is\n               broken]","[expects her husband back from Charlottesville soon,\n               and misses her child Nanny]","[draft of a letter which urges her to make a\n               will]","[warns him against bad influences, laments the loss\n               of Maria [Jefferson Carr (1804-1825)?], and regrets his\n               financial reverses]","[writes concerning the debts of her nephew, George N.\n               O[verton?]","See the \n             \n            University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","University of Virginia. 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Carr","Maria Jefferson Carr","Jane Margaret Carr Cary","Wilson Miles Cary","Wilson Jefferson Cary","Virginia Randolph Cary","Charles Lewis Bankhead","Thomas Jefferson Randolph","John Addison Carr","Thomas Mann Randolph","John Leslie","James Thomson Callender","George Washington","James Monroe","Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead","Jane Hollins Nicholas","William Wirt","English"],"unitid_tesim":["1231"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Carr-Cary Family Papers \n         1785-1839"],"collection_title_tesim":["Carr-Cary Family Papers \n         1785-1839"],"collection_ssim":["Carr-Cary Family Papers \n         1785-1839"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["These papers were purchased for the Tracy W. McGregor\n            Collection by the University of Virginia Library, from Mrs.\n            Fairfax Harrison, Fauquier County, Virginia, on September\n            1, 1941."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["ca. 285 items"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to research.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to research."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCarr-Cary Family\n            Papers, Accession 1231, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Carr-Cary Family\n            Papers, Accession 1231, Special Collections Department, University of\n         Virginia Library"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Funding Note"],"processinfo_tesim":["Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment\n            for the Humanities"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the papers of the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eCarr family\u003c/famname\u003eof \" \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCarrsbrook\u003c/corpname\u003e\", \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eCary family\u003c/famname\u003eof \" \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eCarysbrook\u003c/corpname\u003e, \" \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFluvanna County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1785-1839, ca.\n         285 items (2.5 Hollinger boxes, 1 linear foot), including\n         chiefly correspondence, but also manuscripts of obituaries,\n         poetry, and debates, and financial documents. The papers\n         include correspondence between \n         \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Carr\u003c/persname\u003e(1770-1815), nephew of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jefferson\u003c/persname\u003e, \n         \u003cpersname normal=\"Hetty Carr\"\u003eHester \"Hetty\" Smith Stevenson\n         Carr\u003c/persname\u003e(1767-1834), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Pitt Stevenson\u003c/persname\u003e(d.1819), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eDabney S. Carr\u003c/persname\u003e(1802-1854), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eMaria Jefferson Carr\u003c/persname\u003e(1804-1825), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJane Margaret Carr Cary\u003c/persname\u003e(1809-1903), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilson Miles Cary\u003c/persname\u003e(1806-1877), \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilson Jefferson Cary\u003c/persname\u003e(1784-1823), and \n         \u003cpersname\u003eVirginia Randolph Cary\u003c/persname\u003e(1786-1852), with\n         other members of the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eJefferson\u003c/famname\u003e, \n         \u003cfamname\u003eRandolph\u003c/famname\u003e, \n         \u003cfamname\u003eCarr\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n         \u003cfamname\u003eCary\u003c/famname\u003efamilies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll Thomas Jefferson correspondence has been transferred to\n         the Thomas Jefferson Papers and is not listed in this guide.\n         The Jefferson letters are included in the calendar \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Jefferson Papers of the University of\n            Virginia\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ecompiled by Constance E. Thurlow and Francis L.\n         Berkeley, Jr. available in the Special Collections Reading\n         Room and on the Special Collections web page under Digital\n         Resources \u0026amp; Exhibitions -Guides to the Collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include family and social news of \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eCharlottesville, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eBaltimore, Maryland\u003c/geogname\u003e, agricultural matters\n         and plantation life; relationships between slaves and their\n         owners; family advice, education and study of law; the\n         increasing financial distress of the period and other\n         financial matters of the family; religious thought; local and\n         national politics; scattered references to the \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eUniversity of Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand Thomas\n         Jefferson; with genealogical notes by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilson Miles Cary\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics also include proposed and subsequent sale of\n         Carrsbrook; the sale, hire, and purchase of family slaves;\n         Hetty Carr's move to Baltimore; a fight between \n         \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Lewis Bankhead\u003c/persname\u003eand \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Jefferson Randolph\u003c/persname\u003eand its after\n         effects; \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Addison Carr\u003c/persname\u003e's career in the navy;\n         concern for dental care; the controversial proposal of either\n         a lottery ora subscription for the financial relief of Thomas\n         Jefferson; and travel to \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorida\u003c/geogname\u003e. The papers also contain\n         correspondence, 1793-1807, of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Mann Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e(1768-1828,\n         son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, concerning agricultural and\n         social matters; the possible engagement of \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Leslie\u003c/persname\u003eas a tutor for the \n         \u003cfamname\u003eRandolph family\u003c/famname\u003e; a letter, 1802, from\n         Thomas Mann Randolph to Peter Carr concerning his plans to\n         respond to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Thomson Callender\u003c/persname\u003e's accusation\n         against Thomas Jefferson, and his decision not to do so; and a\n         letter, 1826, from Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875)\n         concerning Thomas Jefferson's death and desire for keeping his\n         father from misusing money from Jefferson's estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers also contain a letter, 1797, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003ecommenting on the\n         divisive nature of politics and on political attacks aimed at\n         him; a letter, 1800, from \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJames Monroe\u003c/persname\u003eregarding the hire of slaves\n         and financial matters; a statement, 1814, by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eAnne Cary Randolph Bankhead\u003c/persname\u003eon Thomas\n         Jefferson Randolph's courtship and marriage to \n         \u003cpersname\u003eJane Hollins Nicholas\u003c/persname\u003e(1798-1871); an\n         obituary, 1815, of Peter Carr by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Wirt\u003c/persname\u003e; two student essays by Peter\n         Carr; and poems by \n         \u003cpersname\u003eVirginia Randolph Cary\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial documents consist of receipts for payments of\n         fees for Peter Carr at \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eWilliam \u0026amp; Mary College\u003c/corpname\u003e; receipts for\n         payments of fees related to the education of D. Terrell and\n         George P. Stevenson; Peter Carr's account with \n         \u003ccorpname\u003eHollins \u0026amp; McBlair\u003c/corpname\u003eof Baltimore; a\n         receipt for blacksmith work; Hetty Carr's memorandum\n         concerning money due her from Robert Carter Nicholas from a\n         plantation in \n         \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisiana\u003c/geogname\u003e; accounts of Mrs. Virginia\n         Cary; and an account of the estate of Wilson J. Cary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSources for information about the Carr \u0026amp; Cary families\n         include: \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Virginia Carys\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby Fairfax Harrison, \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Carr Family Records\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby Edson I. Carr, and \n         \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Carrs of Albemarle\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003ea University of Virginia History Thesis by Elizabeth\n         Dabney Coleman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[advises further practical study in England,\n               mentioning the mines of Derbyshire, the canals \u0026amp;\n               works of the Duke of Bridgewater, the pottery methods of\n               Mr. Wedgwood, the libraries at the University of Oxford,\n               and the natural history specimens and antiquities in the\n               museums of London, and suggests some books to read (1788\n               May 12); anxiously inquires if he has heard anything\n               from Thomas Jefferson on the subject of his own possible\n               immigration to America to continue as Randolph's teacher\n               (1788 Jun 22); informs Randolph of his terms for\n               employment in Virginia (1788 Aug 2); refers to his stay\n               in Virginia in 1789, his happiness at the news of\n               Randolph's marriage, his connection to the Wedgwood\n               family, his paper \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eObservations on Electrical Theories\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, encouragement to complete the natural history\n               of Virginia which his father-in-law had sketched (1792\n               Sep 27), all these letters are bound together; regrets\n               at leaving the Randolph family, request for seeds to be\n               sent to him in Scotland, and his impressions of\n               Philadelphia (1789 Jun 16); his stay at Etruria,\n               Staffordshire with the Wedgwoods and the marriage of\n               Randolph (1790 Jul 23); and his letter of introduction\n               for John Wilson, mentioning the conflict between Great\n               Britain and the United States (1807 Aug 28)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[assures her of his affection and tells of his plans\n               to accompany Captain Lilly with Mrs. Griffin, to New\n               York City, where he hopes to see many of the important\n               men of the new Congress, including James Madison and his\n               uncle, Thomas Jefferson, after his return from\n               France]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[suggests that William try to buy lime in Richmond,\n               James is setting out for Varina Grove with the horses\n               for Mr. Hughes and will also have the deed for Edgehill\n               to present to Colonel Randolph for his acknowledgment of\n               the signature, and mentions the necessity of hiring\n               labor to help in his wheat fields]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions his child Ann Cary (1791-1826), and the\n               upcoming Christmas party at Beverly Randolph's]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[congratulates him upon his approaching marriage (in\n               June 1797?) to Hester Smith Stevenson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses political divisions and the attacks made\n               upon those in government, perhaps referring to the John\n               Nicholas affair]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses how Dr. Walker has violated the principle\n               that the public interest should be preferred to private\n               advantage]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses his suit in the District Court, Lexington,\n               Kentucky, over land in the forks of the [Elkhorn?]\n               River, and their hope that Thomas Jefferson will win the\n               election]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the murder of [Samuel] Burch of Charlottesville,\n               Virginia, by George Carter, who was angry over not being\n               allowed in the Burch home to see Betsy Minor; the\n               natural death of Tom Fleming; the hiring of slave woman\n               Rose by Mr. Lott; the schooling of his stepson, George\n               P. Stevenson, who has a private tutor at the home of\n               Colonel Nicholas, and the sickness of little Jefferson\n               (died in infancy)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses his financial arrangements to meet his\n               obligations to \"some Jews in Richmond,\" which involve\n               [the slave hire of?] two girls presently with their\n               grandmother \"at the mountain,\"and Lucy who has served\n               her term of three years with Mr. Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[dancing master concerning his account for George P.\n               Stevenson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses Hetty's (Hester Stevenson Carr) deed for\n               the wharf property and procuring a carriage from\n               Philadelphia for Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions the deed for the warehouse property in\n               Baltimore and offers condolences to Hetty (Hester\n               Stevenson Carr) and Peter Carr on the loss of their son,\n               Jefferson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[refers to the charges against Thomas Jefferson by\n               James Thomson Callender]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses politics and the Republican party, the\n               report of the Ways \u0026amp; Means Committee, his desire for\n               Meriwether Jones to become the commissioner of loans,\n               news of the Spanish troops disembarking at New Orleans,\n               his expectation that the Louisiana Territory will pass\n               from the French prefect to the United States without\n               difficulty, and the two remaining matters before\n               Congress being the creation of a Louisiana Territory\n               government and the impeachment of a drunken judge]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses horses, family matters, and a duel between\n               Mr. Windom Grimes, of Richmond, and Mr. Terrell, with\n               Wilson J. Cary (1784-1823), Peter Carr's nephew, as his\n               second]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks Peter Carr to pay his brother, Dabney Carr\n               (1772-1837) a debt for a horse incurred by Cabell, if it\n               is convenient]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions the sale of slave woman, Nelly and her two\n               children, to Mr. Rothwell for six hundred dollars and\n               the hire of [Sary]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[politics in the Virginia General Assembly and the\n               eloquence of several speeches, especially T.L Preston of\n               Rockbridge]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[reports on his studies at Warren, Virginia, and his\n               boarding at Mr. White's]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[regrets that Rice has beaten him in the election,\n               supposes James Madison will succeed Thomas Jefferson in\n               the presidency and mentions the Embargo]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[advice to Carr on campaigning as a candidate in the\n               state Senate, which he supports]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks concerning the possibility of selling his\n               property in Augusta County, Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[begs Carr to come and visit him before he moves to\n               southwest Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[assures her he has written to Mr. Divers concerning\n               Louisa, [a slave?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes her travel, searching for items in the\n               Richmond stores for her sister Mary, and the letter has\n               a handwritten genealogical chart o f the Cary\n               family]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[William Newsum (1785-1828) gone to Norfolk on\n               business; includes some additional genealogical notes re\n               the Carr family]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses his children, the progress of his school,\n               marriage of George P. Stevenson, and the election of\n               Dabney Carr as Chancellor of the Winchester\n               District]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[expresses his disappointment that George and Eliza\n               have postponed their trip to Carrsbrook, uncertainty\n               over placing his son Dabney, with George in his counting\n               house if they do not plan to visit very often, and his\n               anxiety that they are going to set up housekeeping for\n               themselves before George has finished his\n               apprenticeship; also mentions the land in Augusta\n               County, Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[requests he forward any letter of Carr's in his\n               possession]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[forwards the legal opinion of [John] Wickham about\n               money due from the Fairfax estate and holds the other\n               papers for Cary or his agent]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[gives his advice concerning a controversy with Mr.\n               N[elson] and Mr. Eustis involving Carr over an\n               appointment]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning a visit of Thomas Jefferson\n               Randolph to Warren, Albemarle County to visit Jane\n               Hollins Nicholas, daughter of Wilson Cary Nicholas and\n               the future wife of T.J. Randolph (on March 16, 1815);\n               apparently the family was upset about remarks that Mrs.\n               Nicholas had supposedly made about Martha Randolph and\n               Ann Bankhead]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning her trip to Winchester]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[hopes that Peter Carr's health has improved, tells\n               of difficulties on her journey home, the anxiety of\n               William Newsum over the sale of his Tennessee lands,\n               requests Virginia [Terrell] (1798-1816) to write,\n               mentions the pregnancy of Virginia Randolph Cary (with\n               Archibald Cary, born March 9th) and the fatal sore\n               throat prevalent around King William County]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[answers her letter to Jane (Cary Harrison) who is\n               away, makes arrangements to complete the bonnet to be\n               sent to Mrs. Cocke, and reports that both she and her\n               husband, Jane, and Lucy have all been sick]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[refers to the death of her son, Theodoric Randolph\n               (1794?-1815) and the burdens she bears alone; mentions\n               the possible visit of her sister, Harriet]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[refers to the death of Judith Randolph (1772-1816),\n               sister of Virginia Cary, and her childhood friend, and\n               the plans of Judith's son, John St. George Randolph\n               (1792-1857), to build at \"Bizarre\" and her uncertainty\n               if his uncle, John Randolph of Roanoke, will care for\n               him or not]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses her financial situation, mentions James\n               Overton Carr and his wife, Mary Minor, lists the names\n               of the slaves that she sent to Mr. Kelly's, and warns\n               against early marriage]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[explains why his trunk did not arrive and promises\n               to see it off the next Saturday from Charlottesville,\n               mentions the death of Colonel John Mercer, and the\n               accident of Mr. Battaille]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[wants to get their mother to come to Baltimore and\n               see the surgeon, Dr. Gibson, for her hearing, and tell\n               her about the opportunity for Dabney to work in the\n               insurance office of Uncle Hollins, where he serves as\n               President, and Dabney can continue his studies at\n               night]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Hetty Carr will set off for Baltimore by the end of\n               the week, and Uncle Samuel Carr hopes to take John A.\n               Carr to Washington to either sail on the Franklin or\n               join the navy, hopefully with a recommendation from\n               Thomas Jefferson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[did not leave on Saturday because Sam persuaded her\n               to stay for a later stage which was unable to leave\n               because the water was to high, will bring Maria with her\n               to Baltimore, Dabney is delighted to remain there, and\n               notes that Thomas Jefferson did not receive George's\n               letter as soon as he should have, but will send a\n               recommendation to Washington for John A. Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[sends a letter of brotherly advice]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses family and financial affairs, W. Patterson\n               and W. Gilmer will board with her next year, Mr. Craven\n               wants to purchase the slave, Elizabeth, and Hetty Carr's\n               property]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[names the servants they now have, including\n               Anderson, Betsy Anne, and Robert; Jim is hired out to\n               Richard Martin; cannot find white flour in Richmond, and\n               they miss Dabney and Maria]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[full of friendly joking but little news]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[cousin James is building a house, and cousin Martha\n               comes to Carrsbrook every Friday for Ellen to say her\n               lessons, which she describes; Jefferson [Randolph] came\n               by last Sunday and thought Carrsbrook better off than\n               when Hetty left Virginia, he has rented two plantations\n               and 70-80 slaves from his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson,\n               and gives him produce in return]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writing from Havana, Cuba, instructs Dabney to\n               purchase Commercial \u0026amp; Farmers Bank stock for Eliza\n               and his children, dividing the balance between himself\n               and Maria]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses financial situation and her desire to sell\n               the plantation, prices of slaves are very high, hopes to\n               eventually live in Baltimore with all her family\n               together]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[letter from a childhood friend]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[worries about selling Carrsbrook, and the education\n               of her girls]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from Havana with business and other\n               instructions]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[letter from two unknown childhood friends, teasing\n               him about marriage]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions his father and Doctor Everet as candidates\n               for the General Assembly]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[urges him to tell her how Eliza and Maria are\n               getting along and asks how Eliza is treating both of\n               them while George is in Cuba]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions the illness of her husband, the visit of\n               William Fitzhugh Randolph, her daughter Jane Cary\n               Randolph and her trouble with her pregnancy, and Lucy\n               Bolling Randolph, and the visit of General [John\n               Hartwell Cocke?] to her husband]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses finances with him, including the\n               possibility of Mr. Kelly buying the plantation and\n               slaves, and her hopes of moving to Baltimore and\n               reuniting the family]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[regrets that she was unable to stop and see her when\n               they returned from \"Bremo,\" her daughter Jane suffers a\n               miscarriage, and cousin Mary Irving sends her love to\n               Virginia; also includes genealogical notes by another\n               writer on the letter]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses business matters and moral\n               instruction]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the condition of her crops this year, the\n               unwillingness of Mr. Kelly to pay what she believes the\n               plantation and slaves are worth, the necessity of being\n               careful financially, availability of flour at Mr.\n               Peyton's in Richmond for Eliza, and her concern for\n               Maria's use of her time]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[gives her advice, warns her not to try to keep up\n               with her friends, Mary T. and Alicia McBlair in fashion,\n               and her trouble with one of her boarders]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from Cuba, discussing financial affairs]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks her to account for the spending of her one\n               hundred dollars, and insists that she gets her teeth\n               filled]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Eliza has written to her, unreconciled to George\n               remaining in Cuba on business, her concerns about Dabney\n               \u0026amp; Maria, if Eliza should leave Baltimore to join him\n               there, and the condition of the plantation]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[her concerns about where Dabney and Maria will board\n               if Eliza and her family go to the Charity School,\n               suggests that Robert Smith may ask them to stay with\n               him, worries about who will care for her children,\n               Maria, Hollins, and Jane Margaret, should she die before\n               they are grown, or before Dabney is married]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes during her stay in Richmond, mentions the\n               publication of William Wirt's biography of Patrick\n               Henry, and discusses her improvement in dancing]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[letter from childhood friend]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[promises to get General [John George] Jackson, who\n               is on the spot, to investigate his deed to lands on\n               Cedar Creek, near Clarksburg, [West Virginia] and begs\n               his nephew to write to him about his welfare]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses family affairs, her pleasure that Maria\n               has filled her teeth, and Dabney Minor handling the sale\n               of Carrsbrook and her slaves in Fairfax]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Jefferson and Jane Randolph dined with her at\n               \"Dunlora,\" James [Carr?] has lost a child, and mentions\n               the Trists]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the prospects of selling Carrsbrook\n               again]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[reports on his efforts to locate a deed to the land\n               on Cedar Creek conveyed by General Smith to Dabney S.\n               Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[his friend and relative discusses the crops on the\n               farm at Carrsbrook and the arrival of Maria there]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[saw Jane Smith and Mary Taylor in Winchester]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Aunt Betsy is very unwell, encloses the letter from\n               General Jackson (see June 30, 1818)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the wheat harvest, the birth of George P.\n               Stevenson's son, and the intention of James Carr to buy\n               Carrsbrook, if he is able to sell his own place]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026amp;\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook, if he is able to sell his\n               own place, and has found the deed to Dabney's land on\n               Cedar Creek, West Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026amp;\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026amp;\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook, mentions the University of\n               Virginia, \"the good citizens of Charlottesville are on\n               their heads about the University which is shortly to be\n               located,\" which is believed to be fixed at the Central\n               College; mentions James Minor and his efforts concerning\n               the old mill road for his mother, Hetty, and the\n               deliverance of his overseer's wife of twins (the last\n               year she had triplets)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the girls are at Jefferson Randolph's, George is\n               exchanging his house for a larger one, further\n               discussions of the intention of James \u0026amp; Mary Carr to\n               buy Carrsbrook, and her feeling that she must sell\n               everything that cannot be transported by water to\n               Baltimore]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[during a trip to Winchester, describes his rescue of\n               a gig stuck in the mud, his impression of the Alleghany\n               Mountains, and includes a humorous and slightly risque\n               story]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the offer of Dabney Minor for Carrsbrook, the sale\n               of the slaves Elizabeth and Betsy to R.G. Martin, who\n               offers the same price to Maria for Jenny, asks George to\n               make application so she can transport her slaves, Phil,\n               Betty, Peter, Robert and his wife, Mary, and their two\n               children, Esther and her man]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[provides details of her sale of Carrsbrook to Dabney\n               Minor, and the public sale on November 19th, of her\n               slaves and other property]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from the ship U.S.S. Independence, being a\n               midshipman in the U.S. Navy, and describes a fight he\n               participated in at a theater in [Boston?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the results of the sale, and mentions\n               getting a power of attorney for the sale of Ben's\n               family, belonging to George]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the sale of the family slaves, hoping to\n               sell them to family or to neighbors if possible, the\n               death of the slave named Phil, and the sale of her\n               furniture and furnishings]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[requests that Carr introduce Dr. Bramham into\n               Baltimore society]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[has sent Dabney S. Carr's deed to lands near\n               Clarksburg, [West] Virginia, with a gentleman to be\n               recorded in the court of the newly formed Lewis\n               County]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[business \u0026amp; moral instructions and the progress\n               of the voyage to Havana]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses business]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[witnesses the fire in the Boston Exchange Coffee\n               House and the subsequent blaze in the Navy Yard, and two\n               midshipmen tried for overstaying their leave on\n               shore]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes the sale of the family slaves, and makes\n               arrangements about her furniture]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[worries about the repayment of George's debts, James\n               Carr's purchase of Ben's family, and the arrangements\n               for the sale of the other slaves]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes more adventures of the midshipman\n               life]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[reports on the sale of slaves and furniture, Uncle\n               Sam is to marry in a week and Martha and Dabney Minor\n               are to marry]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[business instructions]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[forwards one hundred dollars from his mother to\n               Dabney Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes his life on the ship and adventures in\n               swabbing the deck when the temperature was freezing]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[arrangements to come to Baltimore and set up\n               housekeeping with Eliza temporarily, and her concerns\n               over whether her daughter-in-law is really willing for\n               her to come]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[has heard word of George Hollins and John Nicholas\n               on board the Mediterranean, and mentions a brawl in the\n               Boston theater]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[fears that Eliza is no longer interested in a joint\n               housekeeping venture, mentions the marriage of Martha\n               and Dabney Minor, and discusses business]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses business and gives advice]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning a slave, Letty, and her concerns\n               about sending her to Georgia to be among strangers or\n               even Louisiana without her consent, despite her being\n               brought home by a constable]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[complains that Maria seldom writes her, reports on\n               the selling of her furniture, longs to see her children\n               and her concerns about housekeeping in Baltimore]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes his courting activities in Boston, wonders\n               about the absence of letters from his father, and has\n               not received his orders to The Hornet]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses a check, family affairs, and\n               furniture]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the merits of Boston girls and Virginia\n               girls, parties, his anger at his father for not writing,\n               and his hopes to sail aboard The Hornet]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses her proposed trip to Baltimore and other\n               business]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[hopes to come to Baltimore in March if the roads are\n               not too bad and discusses family affairs]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks if he has gotten permission for her to bring\n               her slaves to Baltimore, trouble over the slave\n               Elizabeth because Samuel Carr neglected to apply to the\n               General Assembly for leave to keep her in Virginia,\n               describes the attack of Charles L. Bankhead upon\n               Jefferson Randolph at court with a knife on February\n               1st, and weakened by his wounds, Randolph remained at\n               the home of Alexander Garrett for awhile until he could\n               be moved; remarks that \"poor Mr. Jefferson was\n               dreadfully agitated when he saw him first\"]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[shares his pride that Virginia has established and\n               endowed the University of Virginia at the location of\n               Central College which will have about 300 students as\n               estimated by Thomas Jefferson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[glad that Dabney has deferred his plan to marry\n               [Mary Taylor?] until next fall, and the possibility that\n               he may sail on The Columbian]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks Dabney to make final arrangements with Mr.\n               Montgomery to bring her and family to Baltimore, asks\n               concerning her letters and what they said about her\n               bargain with Dabney Minor for the land, which is in\n               dispute, and reports on Jefferson Randolph's\n               condition]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[remarks concerning the actions of Charles L.\n               Bankhead, and wishes his friend would visit Monticello\n               and remember John Carr to all the folks there,\n               especially to Mrs. Randolph]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions that Jefferson Randolph is almost restored\n               to health, mentions Dabney Carr, Major Divers, Mrs.\n               Coleman, and Ann Bankhead moving out of the county]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from Carysbrook to his son at the Staunton\n               Academy, mentions General John Hartwell Cocke's\n               willingness to send up his carryall for his son, John\n               Hartwell Cocke (1804-1846) and Wilson, General Cocke\n               believes that soon a grammar school will be established\n               by Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, who has written\n               to Dr. Cooper in Philadelphia about engaging a competent\n               teacher, and neighborhood disasters as a result of\n               fires, including the death of the foreman at Oakhill who\n               had a tree fall on his head]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions Jane Randolph, Virginia's sister, and her\n               daughter Jane [Randolph] who recently had a baby and is\n               still at home with her]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes a visit to the Peaks of Otter, the meeting\n               of the Presbytery of Hanover, with sermons by Mr. Rice\n               of Petersburg and Mr. Lyle of Prince Edward, and her\n               experiences in gardening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[upset that no one has written for two months, has\n               heard that Carrsbrook has burned, and describes his\n               struggles with a runaway sailor in Boston]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the girls of Boston and asks about family\n               \u0026amp; friends]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[continues to teach in Louisa County having refused\n               an appointment to West Point, but may emigrate to\n               Pensacola in the fall if he doesn't get married]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[announcing the death of George P. Stevenson in\n               Havana, Cuba, of a fever]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[remarks on the scarcity of money and its effects on\n               the economy, the disadvantages of being a merchant,\n               plans for the wagon with the servants to leave\n               Charlottesville tomorrow, and asks if a Miss Campbell\n               can accompany Hetty Carr for safety]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[his work as a commodore's aid, sorry to hear Hetty\n               is leaving Baltimore so soon, language of Yankee ladies,\n               and the wounding of his friend]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[transferred to The Constellation]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, and his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[sends $120.00 at the request of James O. Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, and advice about a new vocation]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, his land in Lewis County, and asks about the\n               plans of the family]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, his land in Lewis County, Dabney Terrell, and\n               asks about the plans of the family]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia, and an offer to read law in his own\n               office]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[times are very hard, has no overseer at present,\n               reports on the lack of progress of Central College, the\n               notes of the North Carolina banks are refused, saw his\n               friend Jack Carr who left them yesterday, and advises\n               Dabney to quit the mercantile business]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[both her husband and son-in-law, William, have been\n               unwell, William, who has been at the Amelia Springs,\n               will soon go to the Buckingham County Quarterly Court,\n               accompanied by Jane to the home of Charles Irving, and\n               asks if Virginia's daughter, Jane, can come to the\n               dancing school with her children]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[makes arrangements for Dabney to take a position\n               reading law in his office]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions the visit of Martha Jefferson Randolph and\n               Ellen Randolph to Virginia, and discusses the\n               misunderstanding over her comments concerning Mary\n               Campbell, sister of Sally Peachy, to Lelia Barraud;\n               someone has included genealogical notes]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[business and moral instruction]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[instructions and plans for the education of their\n               son, Wilson M. Cary, at the school of Mr. Maury, and\n               refers to the unpleasant dispute between the governor,\n               Thomas Mann Randolph, and the council]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[lists various items he has purchased for Tom\n               Whitlock to bring to her on his return trip, and\n               recounts an account of an exhibition of rope walking at\n               a height of forty feet by a Frenchman, Godeau, at the\n               Eagle Tavern in Williamsburg]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the sale of several slaves including:\n               Martha and three children to Mr. Hopkins of Goochland\n               County, Polly and two children to Mr. Farrar of Fluvanna\n               County, the need to sell Nancy or Priss, and the\n               interest of T.C. Nelson in Billy, who is the husband of\n               Virginia Cary's cook]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[enumerates the articles sent by him through General\n               John Hartwell Cocke to his wife, describes his social\n               life, especially a large party given by John Rutherford\n               in Richmond, discusses schooling for his son,\n               considering Hamden-Sydney if Mr. Maury's school\n               disappoints, asks his wife to remove the wife and\n               children of slave Julius from their household, instructs\n               her to hire out any slaves she can, except for the boy\n               Billy, and reports the rumor that her niece, Ellen, has\n               Martin Van Buren of New York in her train as a\n               suitor]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning the death of Rebecca's\n               [granddaughter?], Anne Martha Cary (1813-1822), and\n               other deaths in her neighborhood, Betsy Bassett, John\n               Bracken, Mary Kennon Cocke Faulcon (1783-1822), and the\n               illness of Mrs. Butler and John Blair Peachy]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning the death of their daughter, Anne\n               Martha Cary (1813-1822), her sister, Harriet Hackley, is\n               still confined to her room, and mentions the visit of\n               Henry Clay to the General Assembly and his speech]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes of a letter from his son, Wilson Miles,\n               consoling him upon the death of Anne Martha Cary, his\n               son's description of a drowning of a boy, Watson, from\n               Charlottesville, who fell through the ice, and his plan\n               to go down to Hampton, bring up slave Hannah and her\n               family to sell in Richmond]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[shares news of common friends and relatives in\n               Virginia, and asks for a copy of the statutes of\n               Maryland, where he hopes to join the bar]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses religion, a concert by Mrs. French, a\n               letter from his mother mentions the confinement of Mary\n               Jane next month, the upcoming trip of William Newsum\n               (1785-1828) westward, his friends, T.C. Nelson and\n               Griffin Peachy both in town, the legacy of cousin\n               Andrews, and is sending copies of \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eGuy Mannering\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Pirate\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby Sir Walter Scott]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[river is high at Richmond, her sister Harriet, is\n               much better, met [Joel Roberts] Poinsett, a member of\n               Congress from South Carolina, saw Mrs. Randolph of\n               Wilton, Miss Betsy Andrews, Miss Ballard, Robert \u0026amp;\n               John Andrews, and Doctor Tazewell, plans to attend the\n               last concert of Mrs. French, and mentions the marriage\n               of Griffin Peachy's sister]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from the U.S. Constellation,a depressed\n               letter from Valparaiso, Chile, about his prospects in\n               the Navy, saw The Franklin in this port, and asks for\n               correspondence]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[inquires about his progress in his study of law]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[encloses a draft]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning a debt he owes for boots and his\n               pleasure at hearing Dabney is reading law with Judge\n               Dorsey]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[defends the manner of his last payment to Hetty\n               Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[refers again to the debt for boots to Mr. Carson,\n               warns of the dangers of procrastination, for which the\n               Carrs are known, thanks him for a copy of \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Fortunes of Nigel\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby Sir Walter Scott for which he offers a\n               critique, advises him about studying with Judge Dorsey,\n               and looking forward to seeing Jack, knowing their many\n               letters to him have miscarried]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning to his son at the Hampden Sydney\n               College, the birth of a daughter, Louisa Hartwell, (who\n               later died April 28, 1823), fires at the homes of Dr.\n               Wills and Joshua Key, the marriage of Mary Elizabeth\n               Randolph, daughter of Thomas Eston and Jane Cary\n               Randolph, to Francis Eppes, son of John Wayles Eppes and\n               Maria Jefferson, and work at the plantation]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[will continue to hire his slave Peter, and Doctor\n               Grayson has told him that his nephew is about to take\n               his place at the bar]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[saw the last performance of [Junius Brutus?] Booth\n               in \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eKing Richard\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, boarding at Mr. Poore's, a cabinet maker,\n               discusses the election of governor, favoring James\n               Pleasants, Jr., saw her sister Harriet Hackley whose\n               husband was detained in New York on business, and the\n               price of ordinary tobacco has fallen considerably]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thompson Payne is bringing a bundle to her from\n               himself, which he describes, instruct the overseer to\n               stem their long tobacco this year, asks about the\n               progress on the mill, find out if Mr. Ashlin wishes to\n               hire the slaves, Julius and Jack, and mentions the\n               purchase of slave Polly by Mr. Hopkins of Goochland]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Happy New Year wishes, bad market in Richmond for\n               slaves, although they hire well, hard financial times,\n               bad management of their property by the overseer, saw\n               Colonel Thomas Mann Randolph who said that Thomas\n               Jefferson was nearly recovered from his accident, and\n               that Randolph was making great profits at Varina, and\n               reports that Harriet Hackley was still physically very\n               weak]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[instructs her to get her sister at Monticello to try\n               and clear up her misunderstanding with the Ashton\n               family, pleased that she did not hire out the slaves to\n               anyone who would use them ill, his debt obligates him to\n               sell one of the slave girls, Priss or Nancy, Martha and\n               her two youngest children sold to Mr. Farrar of\n               Fluvanna, Polly and her children left at Cartersville\n               with Dr. James, Sampson sold in the county, Elizabeth to\n               be sold with her husband in Williamsburg by Dr. Peachy,\n               and the marriage of Juliana Mayo to Dr. R.H. Cabell]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes articles he is sending and the money for\n               Wilson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[must economize due to the difficulty of the times,\n               his dissatisfaction with Hampden Syndney if Wilson is\n               only learning Greek, and an account of his slave\n               sales]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning his slave William, the mill\n               repairs, her sister, Harriet Hackley, his sister, Sally\n               Newsum (1788-1841) who is still grieving over the loss\n               of her child, Robert Starke Newsum, and the\n               determination of William Newsum to take his father's\n               claim for $16,000 before Congress]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[hopes the General Assembly session will soon end,\n               and mentions the death of his \"unfortunate Aunt [Sarah?]\n               Fairfax]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[attending the College of William and Mary, visits to\n               Aunt Harriet Hackley and Aunt [Mary Munro] Peachy, his\n               cousin, John Blair, has loaned him many of the books he\n               needs, and describes classes]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[his statement for use in a suit regarding the\n               intended dowry of the wife of John S. Smith]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[inquires about the payment of an annuity left by his\n               grandfather, Wilson Miles Cary, in the hands of her late\n               husband Wilson J. Cary (1784-1823), for Fairfax's\n               mother]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[an account of his difficult voyage as a sailor in\n               the merchant service aboard the Quarantum, sailing from\n               [New York?] with a load of flour for La Guaira,\n               [presently Venzuela], the purchase of cocoa to sell in\n               Tampico, Mexico, the Captain ashore at Havana, where the\n               crew rebelled and attacked him physically demanding\n               higher wages, until he quelled them]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[studying Greek in Charlottesville, boarding with Mr.\n               Hatches, hears from the Monticello family every morning\n               by Ben who comes to Mr. Hatches' school, the upcoming\n               marriage of Ellen Randolph and Joseph Coolidge, and\n               Thomas Jefferson's concerns for his faculty who have not\n               yet arrived at the University of Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the mahogany plank arrived at Norfolk, was\n               transferred to the deck of a steamboat bound for\n               Richmond where it remains on the wharf, Carr's mother\n               and the girls have arrived, and mentions interviews with\n               booksellers from Philadelphia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes the poor state of sister Ellen's health,\n               seeing Doctors Gooch and Dunglison]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from Charlottesville, asks about Eliza,\n               reports concerning the improvement in the health of\n               their sister, Ellen]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concern for Ellen's health, have been staying at\n               Martha's for three weeks, concerns for the cost of their\n               doctor bill, Maria in constant attendance upon her\n               sister, and other business]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[plans to go to Tufton soon, Jane Margaret sick at\n               Woodlands, and attended by Hetty Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks him to secure iodine for her throat in\n               Baltimore, his sister Ellen continues to improve, his\n               mother and the baby are at James Carr's, the visit of\n               Uncle Dabney, Aunt Betsy, and Nancy Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Maria has been ill, Martha's son now with fever,\n               asks why he does not write to his bride elect, which she\n               advises him to do, her regret at not being able to give\n               him a genteel wedding, and discusses the financial\n               troubles of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, who will handle\n               his grandfather's financial affairs]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning the sickness of Maria Carr, her\n               own abscessed tooth, asks about her business affairs,\n               the Louisiana sugar plantation business, the expected\n               death of Martha's son, and about Francis Gilmer,\n               professor of law]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from the ship Peruvian, on his way to Lima,\n               Peru, to tell Dabney goodbye]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the plantation in Louisiana and other\n               business]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the sale of sugar from the Louisiana\n               plantation in Baltimore, Mrs. Randolph is in great\n               distress over the death of her daughter, Ann Bankhead,\n               fears that Thomas Jefferson will not get permission to\n               have a lottery because it meets with great opposition,\n               but he will suffer great injury without it, and\n               Jefferson is very unwell]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Thomas Jefferson Randolph has gone to Richmond to\n               beseech the General Assembly to allow a lottery for\n               Thomas Jefferson and she discusses her business\n               affairs]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[is attempting to secure signatures for Dabney's\n               application for a job in the State Department consulate\n               for Columbia but fears that his rival, Mr. Forsyth, has\n               the advantage of prior experience]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[disapproves Dabney seeking a consulate position in\n               South America because he and his wife, Sidney, will be\n               so far away, they will soon visit Dunlora, the lottery\n               bill has passed but tickets can only be sold up to the\n               value of the property by disinterested gentlemen and\n               must include Monticello itself, Thomas Jefferson in\n               dreadful spirits, greatly affected by the death of his\n               sister Anne, says Colonel Randolph, \"has gone on since\n               his daughter's death more like a demon than ever,\" the\n               University of Virginia Board of Visitors have chosen no\n               candidate yet, and Frank Gilmer died and was interred at\n               Pen Park]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the sugar crop's arrival in Baltimore,\n               Dabney's need for a cooper, suggests Spotswood, except\n               Mr. Garret says he can not sell him unless he gets more\n               than he is worth, and Jefferson Randolph is arranging\n               everything for the lottery for Thomas Jefferson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes to his brother about his school\n               examinations]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[her concern over the lottery and raising enough\n               money for Jefferson to keep Monticello, \"I cannot bear\n               the idea that the graveyard of almost all my family\n               should be sold if I were to draw it is should never be\n               sold it should be kept for a graveyard for every\n               descendant of the Jefferson race\" and the possibility of\n               Dabney Terrell becoming Professor of Law at the\n               University of Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the lottery of Thomas Jefferson again,\n               preferring using a subscription to relieve his debt,\n               Jefferson went white when Jefferson Randolph proposed\n               putting Monticello into the lottery, and Uncle Dabney\n               has lost his little boy, Dabney Jefferson Carr\n               (1817-1826)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the marketing of the sugar from the plantation,\n               prospects of a loan on the plantation, and other related\n               business]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses plantation affairs, the lottery and\n               subscription to relieve Thomas Jefferson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[forwarding a statement by John Hancocke concerning\n               Thomas Jefferson and his financial woes to be published\n               in their morning paper]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[fears that to begin subscriptions for the financial\n               relief of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia would injure the\n               chances of success for the lottery]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the proposal of selling the lottery\n               tickets on Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13th and\n               burning them on July 4th when the Vice-President would\n               present the money to him; and Robert wishes her to\n               secure a blacksmith, cooper, and carpenter while she is\n               still in Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[repeats the proposal about the lottery described in\n               the previous letter, James Carr is planning on selling\n               his slaves and land, one of whom, Nelson, is a cooper,\n               and the University of Virginia law professor is to be\n               chosen on Monday by the Board of Visitors]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[contains genealogical notes, the conversion of\n               Burwell Randolph to Catholicism, her mother, the health\n               of [Jane Cary Randolph] improved, they may open a school\n               in Bedford, and family and personal news]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[no selection made as yet about the law\n               professorship, but confused by the proposal of William\n               Wirt as professor]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[instructions for their return to Baltimore]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[laments the death of Thomas Jefferson, wishing that\n               it had been Colonel Randolph who might have been taken\n               instead but who remains to \"torment his family a little\n               longer,\" her Aunt Maria is to petition the General\n               Assembly for a divorce, and sends greetings from Wilson\n               Cary Newsum (1808-1875) presently at the University of\n               Virginia]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[anecdotes of Thomas Jefferson's last days, warns of\n               the attempts of his father, Colonel Thomas Mann\n               Randolph, to get the money raised by selling lottery\n               tickets for Jefferson, and the disposal of Jefferson's\n               estate]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writing from Monticello, describes a concert given\n               by dwarves in Charlottesville, mentions Jane Margaret's\n               suitor, Wilson M. Cary, whom she defends]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning his examinations]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning the publication of an enclosed circular\n               by Thomas Jefferson found in one of his scrapbooks]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[concerning the purchase of slaves]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[his statement advocating a subscription to relieve\n               the \"Patriot of Monticello\" (Thomas Jefferson)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[needs the money from Reeder's bonds]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes of personal affairs, offering religious\n               encouragement and perspective, heard that John Cocke is\n               at White Sulfur [Springs]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[thanks her for her suggestions about his preaching,\n               and mentions his financial difficulties with his present\n               salary]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[while studying law with Henry St. George Tucker in\n               Winchester, writes concerning the death of his Uncle\n               Miles, his father's only brother (1789-1827), in Alabama\n               while exploring the Southwest, and warns his mother to\n               keep Archibald constantly in school without\n               interruptions]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[reports concerning a meeting of the supporters of\n               his political opponent]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[shares social and family news, refers to the death\n               of her daughter, Elizabeth Griffin Peachy Webb, and\n               includes many genealogical notes]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[hopes to leave Philadelphia for Baltimore on\n               Monday]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[refers to the papers forwarded by her for the editor\n               of \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eRemember Me\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writing from the Union Theological Seminary, refers\n               to her literary labors, and the progress of revival\n               services]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks for assistance in securing a steam boat between\n               Norfolk and Baltimore]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Wilson died at the plantation in Louisiana]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[mentions the upcoming marriage of Virginia's\n               daughter, Mary Randolph Cary (1811-1887) and Dr. Orlando\n               Fairfax (1806-1882) and religious matters]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the death of Wilson at the plantation in\n               Louisiana]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning Mrs. Flournoy?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the nature of his examinations at Union Theological\n               Seminary and religious matters]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning the death of William Newsum\n               (1785-1828), the estate of Miles Cary of \"Oak Hill,\" and\n               other news of family and friends]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the cost of the publication of the Baltimore \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eRepublican\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[inquires as to the status of his possible\n               appointment under Andrew Jackson's administration]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the status of his possible appointment\n               under Andrew Jackson's administration]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[reports concerning Andover Theological Seminary]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[family and personal news]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the birthday of Martha Jefferson Hackley\n               (1824-?)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks Jefferson to let Thrimston remain to help\n               Gorman repair the portico which has been ripped up,\n               revealing the red dirt underneath, or they will all be\n               mired in the dining room]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[if possible Ann will wait for Mr. Nicholas tomorrow,\n               but after that the Madisons will be with them]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[legal advice to appeal to a judicial tribunal to\n               decide upon and assign to Virginia her rights, and call\n               the person in question (the administrator?) to account;\n               and to secure a copy of the will]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses Virginia's prospective school and encloses\n               the receipt from John Gordon]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[sends a box of Bibles from the Bible Society of\n               Virginia to be distributed in Fluvanna County]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[family news, the birth of twin boys to Ellen\n               Coolidge, and plans to use the garret for a school\n               room]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[her beloved Cary has been at the point of death for\n               20 days, has gotten a letter from Lucius Cary, Aunt\n               Hetty Carr and Wilson Cary, when he and Jane Margaret\n               Carr are married, will live in Mr. Davis's new house,\n               and mentions the financial ruin of the Buchannons]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the sale and distribution of Bibles in\n               Fluvanna County]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the marriages of Virginia's son, Wilson Miles Cary\n               to Jane Margaret Carr (1809-1903), and daughter, Jane\n               Blair (1808-1888) to the Rev. Edward Dunlap Smith, of\n               New York, and the serious illness of Mrs. Betsy\n               Carr]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[includes genealogical notes, describes her school,\n               financial terms, and her teacher, welcomes the addition\n               of scholar Virginia Pasture, and her sympathy for\n               motherless children]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[grateful that her son, John, survived an attack of\n               cholera on his ship, fears that Jefferson Randolph's\n               decision to run for office will bring about financial\n               ruin, Jane has received a check from the Proctor at the\n               University of Virginia, asks about the folks at\n               Montebello and John Smith, mentions people at\n               Monticello, and the birth of boys to both Virginia Trist\n               and Jane Smith]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[describes her voyage from Baltimore to St. Augustine\n               on the General Marion, the storm off Cape Hatteras, the\n               rough seas on the way to Charleston drove them past he\n               port to Sullivan's Island and they had to sail back,\n               upon their arrival the mists were too thick to attempt\n               to enter the port of Charleston, another ship collided\n               with her vessel while at anchor and damaged it, though\n               it did not sink, they took a little schooner Samuel\n               Mills the rest of the way, encountering a strong gale\n               near Florida, and her thankfulness that little Sally was\n               safe at home with Sidney]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[reports on the improvements in her health, the many\n               others in Florida who do not appear able to recover, and\n               the purchase of Indian ponies by Wilson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the improvements in her health, religion,\n               her separation from her little girl, and their projected\n               trip back home from Florida]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[plans to leave Florida on the schooner S.S. Mills\n               next week, praises the climate of Florida but not its\n               civilization, discusses the health of Jane Margaret, and\n               their plan \"to try the leeches\" for her throat in\n               Charleston, and mentions the financial panic, where even\n               the office holders in Florida are cursing President\n               Jackson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[has had a conversation with Mr. Barney who promises\n               that nothing further on an unnamed subject would be\n               published in \n               \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Patriot\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes from St. Charles County, Missouri, studying\n               law with Mr. Bates, his father's farm doing well,\n               especially with his tobacco crop, his sickness, and all\n               the agues promoted by the number of swamps and ponds\n               nearby, most of the immigrants are from Virginia,\n               Tennessee, and Kentucky, and the beautiful spring season\n               in Missouri]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[the hire of slave Peter]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes of events at home to his older brother, his\n               schooling, and the whipping of the slave Peter]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[their son's health has improved but his behavior has\n               worsened since his father has been in Washington]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes to her brother, Ellen has gone to Richmond\n               with cousin Betsy and cousin James to have her teeth\n               filled, the fruit in the neighborhood is killed and the\n               Blue Ridge Mountains filled with snow]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[William Patterson has gone away, and paid for a\n               hatchet before he could get it]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[plans to leave Dabney with Mr. Hollins if possible,\n               her sympathy for Eliza because she will not accompany\n               George [to Cuba?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[discusses the sale of her slaves, which would bring\n               more in a public sale but she prefers to sell privately\n               to those she knows, and other business affairs]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[asks to borrow a glass lamp because one of hers is\n               broken]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[expects her husband back from Charlottesville soon,\n               and misses her child Nanny]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[draft of a letter which urges her to make a\n               will]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[warns him against bad influences, laments the loss\n               of Maria [Jefferson Carr (1804-1825)?], and regrets his\n               financial reverses]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[writes concerning the debts of her nephew, George N.\n               O[verton?]\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the papers of the \n          Carr family of \" \n          Carrsbrook \", \n          Albemarle County , and the \n          Cary family of \" \n          Carysbrook , \" \n          Fluvanna County, Virginia , 1785-1839, ca.\n         285 items (2.5 Hollinger boxes, 1 linear foot), including\n         chiefly correspondence, but also manuscripts of obituaries,\n         poetry, and debates, and financial documents. The papers\n         include correspondence between \n          Peter Carr (1770-1815), nephew of \n          Thomas Jefferson , \n          Hester \"Hetty\" Smith Stevenson\n         Carr (1767-1834), \n          George Pitt Stevenson (d.1819), \n          Dabney S. Carr (1802-1854), \n          Maria Jefferson Carr (1804-1825), \n          Jane Margaret Carr Cary (1809-1903), \n          Wilson Miles Cary (1806-1877), \n          Wilson Jefferson Cary (1784-1823), and \n          Virginia Randolph Cary (1786-1852), with\n         other members of the \n          Jefferson , \n          Randolph , \n          Carr , and \n          Cary families.","All Thomas Jefferson correspondence has been transferred to\n         the Thomas Jefferson Papers and is not listed in this guide.\n         The Jefferson letters are included in the calendar \n          The Jefferson Papers of the University of\n            Virginia compiled by Constance E. Thurlow and Francis L.\n         Berkeley, Jr. available in the Special Collections Reading\n         Room and on the Special Collections web page under Digital\n         Resources \u0026 Exhibitions -Guides to the Collections.","Topics include family and social news of \n          Charlottesville, Virginia , and \n          Baltimore, Maryland , agricultural matters\n         and plantation life; relationships between slaves and their\n         owners; family advice, education and study of law; the\n         increasing financial distress of the period and other\n         financial matters of the family; religious thought; local and\n         national politics; scattered references to the \n          University of Virginia and Thomas\n         Jefferson; with genealogical notes by \n          Wilson Miles Cary .","Topics also include proposed and subsequent sale of\n         Carrsbrook; the sale, hire, and purchase of family slaves;\n         Hetty Carr's move to Baltimore; a fight between \n          Charles Lewis Bankhead and \n          Thomas Jefferson Randolph and its after\n         effects; \n          John Addison Carr 's career in the navy;\n         concern for dental care; the controversial proposal of either\n         a lottery ora subscription for the financial relief of Thomas\n         Jefferson; and travel to \n          Florida . The papers also contain\n         correspondence, 1793-1807, of \n          Thomas Mann Randolph (1768-1828,\n         son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, concerning agricultural and\n         social matters; the possible engagement of \n          John Leslie as a tutor for the \n          Randolph family ; a letter, 1802, from\n         Thomas Mann Randolph to Peter Carr concerning his plans to\n         respond to \n          James Thomson Callender 's accusation\n         against Thomas Jefferson, and his decision not to do so; and a\n         letter, 1826, from Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875)\n         concerning Thomas Jefferson's death and desire for keeping his\n         father from misusing money from Jefferson's estate.","The papers also contain a letter, 1797, from \n          George Washington commenting on the\n         divisive nature of politics and on political attacks aimed at\n         him; a letter, 1800, from \n          James Monroe regarding the hire of slaves\n         and financial matters; a statement, 1814, by \n          Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead on Thomas\n         Jefferson Randolph's courtship and marriage to \n          Jane Hollins Nicholas (1798-1871); an\n         obituary, 1815, of Peter Carr by \n          William Wirt ; two student essays by Peter\n         Carr; and poems by \n          Virginia Randolph Cary .","Financial documents consist of receipts for payments of\n         fees for Peter Carr at \n          William \u0026 Mary College ; receipts for\n         payments of fees related to the education of D. Terrell and\n         George P. Stevenson; Peter Carr's account with \n          Hollins \u0026 McBlair of Baltimore; a\n         receipt for blacksmith work; Hetty Carr's memorandum\n         concerning money due her from Robert Carter Nicholas from a\n         plantation in \n          Louisiana ; accounts of Mrs. Virginia\n         Cary; and an account of the estate of Wilson J. Cary.","Sources for information about the Carr \u0026 Cary families\n         include: \n          The Virginia Carys by Fairfax Harrison, \n          The Carr Family Records by Edson I. Carr, and \n          The Carrs of Albemarle a University of Virginia History Thesis by Elizabeth\n         Dabney Coleman.","[advises further practical study in England,\n               mentioning the mines of Derbyshire, the canals \u0026\n               works of the Duke of Bridgewater, the pottery methods of\n               Mr. Wedgwood, the libraries at the University of Oxford,\n               and the natural history specimens and antiquities in the\n               museums of London, and suggests some books to read (1788\n               May 12); anxiously inquires if he has heard anything\n               from Thomas Jefferson on the subject of his own possible\n               immigration to America to continue as Randolph's teacher\n               (1788 Jun 22); informs Randolph of his terms for\n               employment in Virginia (1788 Aug 2); refers to his stay\n               in Virginia in 1789, his happiness at the news of\n               Randolph's marriage, his connection to the Wedgwood\n               family, his paper \n                Observations on Electrical Theories , encouragement to complete the natural history\n               of Virginia which his father-in-law had sketched (1792\n               Sep 27), all these letters are bound together; regrets\n               at leaving the Randolph family, request for seeds to be\n               sent to him in Scotland, and his impressions of\n               Philadelphia (1789 Jun 16); his stay at Etruria,\n               Staffordshire with the Wedgwoods and the marriage of\n               Randolph (1790 Jul 23); and his letter of introduction\n               for John Wilson, mentioning the conflict between Great\n               Britain and the United States (1807 Aug 28)]","[assures her of his affection and tells of his plans\n               to accompany Captain Lilly with Mrs. Griffin, to New\n               York City, where he hopes to see many of the important\n               men of the new Congress, including James Madison and his\n               uncle, Thomas Jefferson, after his return from\n               France]","[suggests that William try to buy lime in Richmond,\n               James is setting out for Varina Grove with the horses\n               for Mr. Hughes and will also have the deed for Edgehill\n               to present to Colonel Randolph for his acknowledgment of\n               the signature, and mentions the necessity of hiring\n               labor to help in his wheat fields]","[mentions his child Ann Cary (1791-1826), and the\n               upcoming Christmas party at Beverly Randolph's]","[congratulates him upon his approaching marriage (in\n               June 1797?) to Hester Smith Stevenson]","[discusses political divisions and the attacks made\n               upon those in government, perhaps referring to the John\n               Nicholas affair]","[discusses how Dr. Walker has violated the principle\n               that the public interest should be preferred to private\n               advantage]","[discusses his suit in the District Court, Lexington,\n               Kentucky, over land in the forks of the [Elkhorn?]\n               River, and their hope that Thomas Jefferson will win the\n               election]","[the murder of [Samuel] Burch of Charlottesville,\n               Virginia, by George Carter, who was angry over not being\n               allowed in the Burch home to see Betsy Minor; the\n               natural death of Tom Fleming; the hiring of slave woman\n               Rose by Mr. Lott; the schooling of his stepson, George\n               P. Stevenson, who has a private tutor at the home of\n               Colonel Nicholas, and the sickness of little Jefferson\n               (died in infancy)]","[discusses his financial arrangements to meet his\n               obligations to \"some Jews in Richmond,\" which involve\n               [the slave hire of?] two girls presently with their\n               grandmother \"at the mountain,\"and Lucy who has served\n               her term of three years with Mr. Carr]","[dancing master concerning his account for George P.\n               Stevenson]","[discusses Hetty's (Hester Stevenson Carr) deed for\n               the wharf property and procuring a carriage from\n               Philadelphia for Carr]","[mentions the deed for the warehouse property in\n               Baltimore and offers condolences to Hetty (Hester\n               Stevenson Carr) and Peter Carr on the loss of their son,\n               Jefferson]","[refers to the charges against Thomas Jefferson by\n               James Thomson Callender]","[discusses politics and the Republican party, the\n               report of the Ways \u0026 Means Committee, his desire for\n               Meriwether Jones to become the commissioner of loans,\n               news of the Spanish troops disembarking at New Orleans,\n               his expectation that the Louisiana Territory will pass\n               from the French prefect to the United States without\n               difficulty, and the two remaining matters before\n               Congress being the creation of a Louisiana Territory\n               government and the impeachment of a drunken judge]","[discusses horses, family matters, and a duel between\n               Mr. Windom Grimes, of Richmond, and Mr. Terrell, with\n               Wilson J. Cary (1784-1823), Peter Carr's nephew, as his\n               second]","[asks Peter Carr to pay his brother, Dabney Carr\n               (1772-1837) a debt for a horse incurred by Cabell, if it\n               is convenient]","[mentions the sale of slave woman, Nelly and her two\n               children, to Mr. Rothwell for six hundred dollars and\n               the hire of [Sary]","[politics in the Virginia General Assembly and the\n               eloquence of several speeches, especially T.L Preston of\n               Rockbridge]","[reports on his studies at Warren, Virginia, and his\n               boarding at Mr. White's]","[regrets that Rice has beaten him in the election,\n               supposes James Madison will succeed Thomas Jefferson in\n               the presidency and mentions the Embargo]","[advice to Carr on campaigning as a candidate in the\n               state Senate, which he supports]","[asks concerning the possibility of selling his\n               property in Augusta County, Virginia]","[begs Carr to come and visit him before he moves to\n               southwest Virginia]","[assures her he has written to Mr. Divers concerning\n               Louisa, [a slave?]","[describes her travel, searching for items in the\n               Richmond stores for her sister Mary, and the letter has\n               a handwritten genealogical chart o f the Cary\n               family]","[William Newsum (1785-1828) gone to Norfolk on\n               business; includes some additional genealogical notes re\n               the Carr family]","[discusses his children, the progress of his school,\n               marriage of George P. Stevenson, and the election of\n               Dabney Carr as Chancellor of the Winchester\n               District]","[expresses his disappointment that George and Eliza\n               have postponed their trip to Carrsbrook, uncertainty\n               over placing his son Dabney, with George in his counting\n               house if they do not plan to visit very often, and his\n               anxiety that they are going to set up housekeeping for\n               themselves before George has finished his\n               apprenticeship; also mentions the land in Augusta\n               County, Virginia]","[requests he forward any letter of Carr's in his\n               possession]","[forwards the legal opinion of [John] Wickham about\n               money due from the Fairfax estate and holds the other\n               papers for Cary or his agent]","[gives his advice concerning a controversy with Mr.\n               N[elson] and Mr. Eustis involving Carr over an\n               appointment]","[writes concerning a visit of Thomas Jefferson\n               Randolph to Warren, Albemarle County to visit Jane\n               Hollins Nicholas, daughter of Wilson Cary Nicholas and\n               the future wife of T.J. Randolph (on March 16, 1815);\n               apparently the family was upset about remarks that Mrs.\n               Nicholas had supposedly made about Martha Randolph and\n               Ann Bankhead]","[writes concerning her trip to Winchester]","[hopes that Peter Carr's health has improved, tells\n               of difficulties on her journey home, the anxiety of\n               William Newsum over the sale of his Tennessee lands,\n               requests Virginia [Terrell] (1798-1816) to write,\n               mentions the pregnancy of Virginia Randolph Cary (with\n               Archibald Cary, born March 9th) and the fatal sore\n               throat prevalent around King William County]","[answers her letter to Jane (Cary Harrison) who is\n               away, makes arrangements to complete the bonnet to be\n               sent to Mrs. Cocke, and reports that both she and her\n               husband, Jane, and Lucy have all been sick]","[refers to the death of her son, Theodoric Randolph\n               (1794?-1815) and the burdens she bears alone; mentions\n               the possible visit of her sister, Harriet]","[refers to the death of Judith Randolph (1772-1816),\n               sister of Virginia Cary, and her childhood friend, and\n               the plans of Judith's son, John St. George Randolph\n               (1792-1857), to build at \"Bizarre\" and her uncertainty\n               if his uncle, John Randolph of Roanoke, will care for\n               him or not]","[discusses her financial situation, mentions James\n               Overton Carr and his wife, Mary Minor, lists the names\n               of the slaves that she sent to Mr. Kelly's, and warns\n               against early marriage]","[explains why his trunk did not arrive and promises\n               to see it off the next Saturday from Charlottesville,\n               mentions the death of Colonel John Mercer, and the\n               accident of Mr. Battaille]","[wants to get their mother to come to Baltimore and\n               see the surgeon, Dr. Gibson, for her hearing, and tell\n               her about the opportunity for Dabney to work in the\n               insurance office of Uncle Hollins, where he serves as\n               President, and Dabney can continue his studies at\n               night]","[Hetty Carr will set off for Baltimore by the end of\n               the week, and Uncle Samuel Carr hopes to take John A.\n               Carr to Washington to either sail on the Franklin or\n               join the navy, hopefully with a recommendation from\n               Thomas Jefferson]","[did not leave on Saturday because Sam persuaded her\n               to stay for a later stage which was unable to leave\n               because the water was to high, will bring Maria with her\n               to Baltimore, Dabney is delighted to remain there, and\n               notes that Thomas Jefferson did not receive George's\n               letter as soon as he should have, but will send a\n               recommendation to Washington for John A. Carr]","[sends a letter of brotherly advice]","[discusses family and financial affairs, W. Patterson\n               and W. Gilmer will board with her next year, Mr. Craven\n               wants to purchase the slave, Elizabeth, and Hetty Carr's\n               property]","[names the servants they now have, including\n               Anderson, Betsy Anne, and Robert; Jim is hired out to\n               Richard Martin; cannot find white flour in Richmond, and\n               they miss Dabney and Maria]","[full of friendly joking but little news]","[cousin James is building a house, and cousin Martha\n               comes to Carrsbrook every Friday for Ellen to say her\n               lessons, which she describes; Jefferson [Randolph] came\n               by last Sunday and thought Carrsbrook better off than\n               when Hetty left Virginia, he has rented two plantations\n               and 70-80 slaves from his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson,\n               and gives him produce in return]","[writing from Havana, Cuba, instructs Dabney to\n               purchase Commercial \u0026 Farmers Bank stock for Eliza\n               and his children, dividing the balance between himself\n               and Maria]","[discusses financial situation and her desire to sell\n               the plantation, prices of slaves are very high, hopes to\n               eventually live in Baltimore with all her family\n               together]","[letter from a childhood friend]","[worries about selling Carrsbrook, and the education\n               of her girls]","[writes from Havana with business and other\n               instructions]","[letter from two unknown childhood friends, teasing\n               him about marriage]","[mentions his father and Doctor Everet as candidates\n               for the General Assembly]","[urges him to tell her how Eliza and Maria are\n               getting along and asks how Eliza is treating both of\n               them while George is in Cuba]","[mentions the illness of her husband, the visit of\n               William Fitzhugh Randolph, her daughter Jane Cary\n               Randolph and her trouble with her pregnancy, and Lucy\n               Bolling Randolph, and the visit of General [John\n               Hartwell Cocke?] to her husband]","[discusses finances with him, including the\n               possibility of Mr. Kelly buying the plantation and\n               slaves, and her hopes of moving to Baltimore and\n               reuniting the family]","[regrets that she was unable to stop and see her when\n               they returned from \"Bremo,\" her daughter Jane suffers a\n               miscarriage, and cousin Mary Irving sends her love to\n               Virginia; also includes genealogical notes by another\n               writer on the letter]","[discusses business matters and moral\n               instruction]","[discusses the condition of her crops this year, the\n               unwillingness of Mr. Kelly to pay what she believes the\n               plantation and slaves are worth, the necessity of being\n               careful financially, availability of flour at Mr.\n               Peyton's in Richmond for Eliza, and her concern for\n               Maria's use of her time]","[gives her advice, warns her not to try to keep up\n               with her friends, Mary T. and Alicia McBlair in fashion,\n               and her trouble with one of her boarders]","[writes from Cuba, discussing financial affairs]","[asks her to account for the spending of her one\n               hundred dollars, and insists that she gets her teeth\n               filled]","[Eliza has written to her, unreconciled to George\n               remaining in Cuba on business, her concerns about Dabney\n               \u0026 Maria, if Eliza should leave Baltimore to join him\n               there, and the condition of the plantation]","[her concerns about where Dabney and Maria will board\n               if Eliza and her family go to the Charity School,\n               suggests that Robert Smith may ask them to stay with\n               him, worries about who will care for her children,\n               Maria, Hollins, and Jane Margaret, should she die before\n               they are grown, or before Dabney is married]","[writes during her stay in Richmond, mentions the\n               publication of William Wirt's biography of Patrick\n               Henry, and discusses her improvement in dancing]","[letter from childhood friend]","[promises to get General [John George] Jackson, who\n               is on the spot, to investigate his deed to lands on\n               Cedar Creek, near Clarksburg, [West Virginia] and begs\n               his nephew to write to him about his welfare]","[discusses family affairs, her pleasure that Maria\n               has filled her teeth, and Dabney Minor handling the sale\n               of Carrsbrook and her slaves in Fairfax]","[Jefferson and Jane Randolph dined with her at\n               \"Dunlora,\" James [Carr?] has lost a child, and mentions\n               the Trists]","[discusses the prospects of selling Carrsbrook\n               again]","[reports on his efforts to locate a deed to the land\n               on Cedar Creek conveyed by General Smith to Dabney S.\n               Carr]","[his friend and relative discusses the crops on the\n               farm at Carrsbrook and the arrival of Maria there]","[saw Jane Smith and Mary Taylor in Winchester]","[Aunt Betsy is very unwell, encloses the letter from\n               General Jackson (see June 30, 1818)]","[discusses the wheat harvest, the birth of George P.\n               Stevenson's son, and the intention of James Carr to buy\n               Carrsbrook, if he is able to sell his own place]","[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook, if he is able to sell his\n               own place, and has found the deed to Dabney's land on\n               Cedar Creek, West Virginia]","[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook]","[further discussions of the intention of James \u0026\n               Mary Carr to buy Carrsbrook, mentions the University of\n               Virginia, \"the good citizens of Charlottesville are on\n               their heads about the University which is shortly to be\n               located,\" which is believed to be fixed at the Central\n               College; mentions James Minor and his efforts concerning\n               the old mill road for his mother, Hetty, and the\n               deliverance of his overseer's wife of twins (the last\n               year she had triplets)]","[the girls are at Jefferson Randolph's, George is\n               exchanging his house for a larger one, further\n               discussions of the intention of James \u0026 Mary Carr to\n               buy Carrsbrook, and her feeling that she must sell\n               everything that cannot be transported by water to\n               Baltimore]","[during a trip to Winchester, describes his rescue of\n               a gig stuck in the mud, his impression of the Alleghany\n               Mountains, and includes a humorous and slightly risque\n               story]","[the offer of Dabney Minor for Carrsbrook, the sale\n               of the slaves Elizabeth and Betsy to R.G. Martin, who\n               offers the same price to Maria for Jenny, asks George to\n               make application so she can transport her slaves, Phil,\n               Betty, Peter, Robert and his wife, Mary, and their two\n               children, Esther and her man]","[provides details of her sale of Carrsbrook to Dabney\n               Minor, and the public sale on November 19th, of her\n               slaves and other property]","[writes from the ship U.S.S. Independence, being a\n               midshipman in the U.S. Navy, and describes a fight he\n               participated in at a theater in [Boston?]","[discusses the results of the sale, and mentions\n               getting a power of attorney for the sale of Ben's\n               family, belonging to George]","[discusses the sale of the family slaves, hoping to\n               sell them to family or to neighbors if possible, the\n               death of the slave named Phil, and the sale of her\n               furniture and furnishings]","[requests that Carr introduce Dr. Bramham into\n               Baltimore society]","[has sent Dabney S. Carr's deed to lands near\n               Clarksburg, [West] Virginia, with a gentleman to be\n               recorded in the court of the newly formed Lewis\n               County]","[business \u0026 moral instructions and the progress\n               of the voyage to Havana]","[discusses business]","[witnesses the fire in the Boston Exchange Coffee\n               House and the subsequent blaze in the Navy Yard, and two\n               midshipmen tried for overstaying their leave on\n               shore]","[describes the sale of the family slaves, and makes\n               arrangements about her furniture]","[worries about the repayment of George's debts, James\n               Carr's purchase of Ben's family, and the arrangements\n               for the sale of the other slaves]","[describes more adventures of the midshipman\n               life]","[reports on the sale of slaves and furniture, Uncle\n               Sam is to marry in a week and Martha and Dabney Minor\n               are to marry]","[business instructions]","[forwards one hundred dollars from his mother to\n               Dabney Carr]","[describes his life on the ship and adventures in\n               swabbing the deck when the temperature was freezing]","[arrangements to come to Baltimore and set up\n               housekeeping with Eliza temporarily, and her concerns\n               over whether her daughter-in-law is really willing for\n               her to come]","[has heard word of George Hollins and John Nicholas\n               on board the Mediterranean, and mentions a brawl in the\n               Boston theater]","[fears that Eliza is no longer interested in a joint\n               housekeeping venture, mentions the marriage of Martha\n               and Dabney Minor, and discusses business]","[discusses business and gives advice]","[writes concerning a slave, Letty, and her concerns\n               about sending her to Georgia to be among strangers or\n               even Louisiana without her consent, despite her being\n               brought home by a constable]","[complains that Maria seldom writes her, reports on\n               the selling of her furniture, longs to see her children\n               and her concerns about housekeeping in Baltimore]","[describes his courting activities in Boston, wonders\n               about the absence of letters from his father, and has\n               not received his orders to The Hornet]","[discusses a check, family affairs, and\n               furniture]","[discusses the merits of Boston girls and Virginia\n               girls, parties, his anger at his father for not writing,\n               and his hopes to sail aboard The Hornet]","[discusses her proposed trip to Baltimore and other\n               business]","[hopes to come to Baltimore in March if the roads are\n               not too bad and discusses family affairs]","[asks if he has gotten permission for her to bring\n               her slaves to Baltimore, trouble over the slave\n               Elizabeth because Samuel Carr neglected to apply to the\n               General Assembly for leave to keep her in Virginia,\n               describes the attack of Charles L. Bankhead upon\n               Jefferson Randolph at court with a knife on February\n               1st, and weakened by his wounds, Randolph remained at\n               the home of Alexander Garrett for awhile until he could\n               be moved; remarks that \"poor Mr. Jefferson was\n               dreadfully agitated when he saw him first\"]","[shares his pride that Virginia has established and\n               endowed the University of Virginia at the location of\n               Central College which will have about 300 students as\n               estimated by Thomas Jefferson]","[glad that Dabney has deferred his plan to marry\n               [Mary Taylor?] until next fall, and the possibility that\n               he may sail on The Columbian]","[asks Dabney to make final arrangements with Mr.\n               Montgomery to bring her and family to Baltimore, asks\n               concerning her letters and what they said about her\n               bargain with Dabney Minor for the land, which is in\n               dispute, and reports on Jefferson Randolph's\n               condition]","[remarks concerning the actions of Charles L.\n               Bankhead, and wishes his friend would visit Monticello\n               and remember John Carr to all the folks there,\n               especially to Mrs. Randolph]","[mentions that Jefferson Randolph is almost restored\n               to health, mentions Dabney Carr, Major Divers, Mrs.\n               Coleman, and Ann Bankhead moving out of the county]","[writes from Carysbrook to his son at the Staunton\n               Academy, mentions General John Hartwell Cocke's\n               willingness to send up his carryall for his son, John\n               Hartwell Cocke (1804-1846) and Wilson, General Cocke\n               believes that soon a grammar school will be established\n               by Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, who has written\n               to Dr. Cooper in Philadelphia about engaging a competent\n               teacher, and neighborhood disasters as a result of\n               fires, including the death of the foreman at Oakhill who\n               had a tree fall on his head]","[mentions Jane Randolph, Virginia's sister, and her\n               daughter Jane [Randolph] who recently had a baby and is\n               still at home with her]","[describes a visit to the Peaks of Otter, the meeting\n               of the Presbytery of Hanover, with sermons by Mr. Rice\n               of Petersburg and Mr. Lyle of Prince Edward, and her\n               experiences in gardening]","[upset that no one has written for two months, has\n               heard that Carrsbrook has burned, and describes his\n               struggles with a runaway sailor in Boston]","[discusses the girls of Boston and asks about family\n               \u0026 friends]","[continues to teach in Louisa County having refused\n               an appointment to West Point, but may emigrate to\n               Pensacola in the fall if he doesn't get married]","[announcing the death of George P. Stevenson in\n               Havana, Cuba, of a fever]","[remarks on the scarcity of money and its effects on\n               the economy, the disadvantages of being a merchant,\n               plans for the wagon with the servants to leave\n               Charlottesville tomorrow, and asks if a Miss Campbell\n               can accompany Hetty Carr for safety]","[his work as a commodore's aid, sorry to hear Hetty\n               is leaving Baltimore so soon, language of Yankee ladies,\n               and the wounding of his friend]","[transferred to The Constellation]","[concerning his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, and his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia]","[sends $120.00 at the request of James O. Carr]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, and advice about a new vocation]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, his land in Lewis County, and asks about the\n               plans of the family]","[concerning the death of Dabney's brother, George P.\n               Stevenson, his land in Lewis County, Dabney Terrell, and\n               asks about the plans of the family]","[concerning his land in Lewis County, [West]\n               Virginia, and an offer to read law in his own\n               office]","[times are very hard, has no overseer at present,\n               reports on the lack of progress of Central College, the\n               notes of the North Carolina banks are refused, saw his\n               friend Jack Carr who left them yesterday, and advises\n               Dabney to quit the mercantile business]","[both her husband and son-in-law, William, have been\n               unwell, William, who has been at the Amelia Springs,\n               will soon go to the Buckingham County Quarterly Court,\n               accompanied by Jane to the home of Charles Irving, and\n               asks if Virginia's daughter, Jane, can come to the\n               dancing school with her children]","[makes arrangements for Dabney to take a position\n               reading law in his office]","[mentions the visit of Martha Jefferson Randolph and\n               Ellen Randolph to Virginia, and discusses the\n               misunderstanding over her comments concerning Mary\n               Campbell, sister of Sally Peachy, to Lelia Barraud;\n               someone has included genealogical notes]","[business and moral instruction]","[instructions and plans for the education of their\n               son, Wilson M. Cary, at the school of Mr. Maury, and\n               refers to the unpleasant dispute between the governor,\n               Thomas Mann Randolph, and the council]","[lists various items he has purchased for Tom\n               Whitlock to bring to her on his return trip, and\n               recounts an account of an exhibition of rope walking at\n               a height of forty feet by a Frenchman, Godeau, at the\n               Eagle Tavern in Williamsburg]","[discusses the sale of several slaves including:\n               Martha and three children to Mr. Hopkins of Goochland\n               County, Polly and two children to Mr. Farrar of Fluvanna\n               County, the need to sell Nancy or Priss, and the\n               interest of T.C. Nelson in Billy, who is the husband of\n               Virginia Cary's cook]","[enumerates the articles sent by him through General\n               John Hartwell Cocke to his wife, describes his social\n               life, especially a large party given by John Rutherford\n               in Richmond, discusses schooling for his son,\n               considering Hamden-Sydney if Mr. Maury's school\n               disappoints, asks his wife to remove the wife and\n               children of slave Julius from their household, instructs\n               her to hire out any slaves she can, except for the boy\n               Billy, and reports the rumor that her niece, Ellen, has\n               Martin Van Buren of New York in her train as a\n               suitor]","[writes concerning the death of Rebecca's\n               [granddaughter?], Anne Martha Cary (1813-1822), and\n               other deaths in her neighborhood, Betsy Bassett, John\n               Bracken, Mary Kennon Cocke Faulcon (1783-1822), and the\n               illness of Mrs. Butler and John Blair Peachy]","[writes concerning the death of their daughter, Anne\n               Martha Cary (1813-1822), her sister, Harriet Hackley, is\n               still confined to her room, and mentions the visit of\n               Henry Clay to the General Assembly and his speech]","[writes of a letter from his son, Wilson Miles,\n               consoling him upon the death of Anne Martha Cary, his\n               son's description of a drowning of a boy, Watson, from\n               Charlottesville, who fell through the ice, and his plan\n               to go down to Hampton, bring up slave Hannah and her\n               family to sell in Richmond]","[shares news of common friends and relatives in\n               Virginia, and asks for a copy of the statutes of\n               Maryland, where he hopes to join the bar]","[discusses religion, a concert by Mrs. French, a\n               letter from his mother mentions the confinement of Mary\n               Jane next month, the upcoming trip of William Newsum\n               (1785-1828) westward, his friends, T.C. Nelson and\n               Griffin Peachy both in town, the legacy of cousin\n               Andrews, and is sending copies of \n                Guy Mannering and \n                The Pirate by Sir Walter Scott]","[river is high at Richmond, her sister Harriet, is\n               much better, met [Joel Roberts] Poinsett, a member of\n               Congress from South Carolina, saw Mrs. Randolph of\n               Wilton, Miss Betsy Andrews, Miss Ballard, Robert \u0026\n               John Andrews, and Doctor Tazewell, plans to attend the\n               last concert of Mrs. French, and mentions the marriage\n               of Griffin Peachy's sister]","[writes from the U.S. Constellation,a depressed\n               letter from Valparaiso, Chile, about his prospects in\n               the Navy, saw The Franklin in this port, and asks for\n               correspondence]","[inquires about his progress in his study of law]","[encloses a draft]","[writes concerning a debt he owes for boots and his\n               pleasure at hearing Dabney is reading law with Judge\n               Dorsey]","[defends the manner of his last payment to Hetty\n               Carr]","[refers again to the debt for boots to Mr. Carson,\n               warns of the dangers of procrastination, for which the\n               Carrs are known, thanks him for a copy of \n                The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott for which he offers a\n               critique, advises him about studying with Judge Dorsey,\n               and looking forward to seeing Jack, knowing their many\n               letters to him have miscarried]","[writes concerning to his son at the Hampden Sydney\n               College, the birth of a daughter, Louisa Hartwell, (who\n               later died April 28, 1823), fires at the homes of Dr.\n               Wills and Joshua Key, the marriage of Mary Elizabeth\n               Randolph, daughter of Thomas Eston and Jane Cary\n               Randolph, to Francis Eppes, son of John Wayles Eppes and\n               Maria Jefferson, and work at the plantation]","[will continue to hire his slave Peter, and Doctor\n               Grayson has told him that his nephew is about to take\n               his place at the bar]","[saw the last performance of [Junius Brutus?] Booth\n               in \n                King Richard , boarding at Mr. Poore's, a cabinet maker,\n               discusses the election of governor, favoring James\n               Pleasants, Jr., saw her sister Harriet Hackley whose\n               husband was detained in New York on business, and the\n               price of ordinary tobacco has fallen considerably]","[Thompson Payne is bringing a bundle to her from\n               himself, which he describes, instruct the overseer to\n               stem their long tobacco this year, asks about the\n               progress on the mill, find out if Mr. Ashlin wishes to\n               hire the slaves, Julius and Jack, and mentions the\n               purchase of slave Polly by Mr. Hopkins of Goochland]","[Happy New Year wishes, bad market in Richmond for\n               slaves, although they hire well, hard financial times,\n               bad management of their property by the overseer, saw\n               Colonel Thomas Mann Randolph who said that Thomas\n               Jefferson was nearly recovered from his accident, and\n               that Randolph was making great profits at Varina, and\n               reports that Harriet Hackley was still physically very\n               weak]","[instructs her to get her sister at Monticello to try\n               and clear up her misunderstanding with the Ashton\n               family, pleased that she did not hire out the slaves to\n               anyone who would use them ill, his debt obligates him to\n               sell one of the slave girls, Priss or Nancy, Martha and\n               her two youngest children sold to Mr. Farrar of\n               Fluvanna, Polly and her children left at Cartersville\n               with Dr. James, Sampson sold in the county, Elizabeth to\n               be sold with her husband in Williamsburg by Dr. Peachy,\n               and the marriage of Juliana Mayo to Dr. R.H. Cabell]","[describes articles he is sending and the money for\n               Wilson]","[must economize due to the difficulty of the times,\n               his dissatisfaction with Hampden Syndney if Wilson is\n               only learning Greek, and an account of his slave\n               sales]","[writes concerning his slave William, the mill\n               repairs, her sister, Harriet Hackley, his sister, Sally\n               Newsum (1788-1841) who is still grieving over the loss\n               of her child, Robert Starke Newsum, and the\n               determination of William Newsum to take his father's\n               claim for $16,000 before Congress]","[hopes the General Assembly session will soon end,\n               and mentions the death of his \"unfortunate Aunt [Sarah?]\n               Fairfax]","[attending the College of William and Mary, visits to\n               Aunt Harriet Hackley and Aunt [Mary Munro] Peachy, his\n               cousin, John Blair, has loaned him many of the books he\n               needs, and describes classes]","[his statement for use in a suit regarding the\n               intended dowry of the wife of John S. Smith]","[inquires about the payment of an annuity left by his\n               grandfather, Wilson Miles Cary, in the hands of her late\n               husband Wilson J. Cary (1784-1823), for Fairfax's\n               mother]","[an account of his difficult voyage as a sailor in\n               the merchant service aboard the Quarantum, sailing from\n               [New York?] with a load of flour for La Guaira,\n               [presently Venzuela], the purchase of cocoa to sell in\n               Tampico, Mexico, the Captain ashore at Havana, where the\n               crew rebelled and attacked him physically demanding\n               higher wages, until he quelled them]","[studying Greek in Charlottesville, boarding with Mr.\n               Hatches, hears from the Monticello family every morning\n               by Ben who comes to Mr. Hatches' school, the upcoming\n               marriage of Ellen Randolph and Joseph Coolidge, and\n               Thomas Jefferson's concerns for his faculty who have not\n               yet arrived at the University of Virginia]","[the mahogany plank arrived at Norfolk, was\n               transferred to the deck of a steamboat bound for\n               Richmond where it remains on the wharf, Carr's mother\n               and the girls have arrived, and mentions interviews with\n               booksellers from Philadelphia]","[describes the poor state of sister Ellen's health,\n               seeing Doctors Gooch and Dunglison]","[writes from Charlottesville, asks about Eliza,\n               reports concerning the improvement in the health of\n               their sister, Ellen]","[concern for Ellen's health, have been staying at\n               Martha's for three weeks, concerns for the cost of their\n               doctor bill, Maria in constant attendance upon her\n               sister, and other business]","[plans to go to Tufton soon, Jane Margaret sick at\n               Woodlands, and attended by Hetty Carr]","[asks him to secure iodine for her throat in\n               Baltimore, his sister Ellen continues to improve, his\n               mother and the baby are at James Carr's, the visit of\n               Uncle Dabney, Aunt Betsy, and Nancy Carr]","[Maria has been ill, Martha's son now with fever,\n               asks why he does not write to his bride elect, which she\n               advises him to do, her regret at not being able to give\n               him a genteel wedding, and discusses the financial\n               troubles of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, who will handle\n               his grandfather's financial affairs]","[writes concerning the sickness of Maria Carr, her\n               own abscessed tooth, asks about her business affairs,\n               the Louisiana sugar plantation business, the expected\n               death of Martha's son, and about Francis Gilmer,\n               professor of law]","[writes from the ship Peruvian, on his way to Lima,\n               Peru, to tell Dabney goodbye]","[discusses the plantation in Louisiana and other\n               business]","[discusses the sale of sugar from the Louisiana\n               plantation in Baltimore, Mrs. Randolph is in great\n               distress over the death of her daughter, Ann Bankhead,\n               fears that Thomas Jefferson will not get permission to\n               have a lottery because it meets with great opposition,\n               but he will suffer great injury without it, and\n               Jefferson is very unwell]","[Thomas Jefferson Randolph has gone to Richmond to\n               beseech the General Assembly to allow a lottery for\n               Thomas Jefferson and she discusses her business\n               affairs]","[is attempting to secure signatures for Dabney's\n               application for a job in the State Department consulate\n               for Columbia but fears that his rival, Mr. Forsyth, has\n               the advantage of prior experience]","[disapproves Dabney seeking a consulate position in\n               South America because he and his wife, Sidney, will be\n               so far away, they will soon visit Dunlora, the lottery\n               bill has passed but tickets can only be sold up to the\n               value of the property by disinterested gentlemen and\n               must include Monticello itself, Thomas Jefferson in\n               dreadful spirits, greatly affected by the death of his\n               sister Anne, says Colonel Randolph, \"has gone on since\n               his daughter's death more like a demon than ever,\" the\n               University of Virginia Board of Visitors have chosen no\n               candidate yet, and Frank Gilmer died and was interred at\n               Pen Park]","[discusses the sugar crop's arrival in Baltimore,\n               Dabney's need for a cooper, suggests Spotswood, except\n               Mr. Garret says he can not sell him unless he gets more\n               than he is worth, and Jefferson Randolph is arranging\n               everything for the lottery for Thomas Jefferson]","[writes to his brother about his school\n               examinations]","[her concern over the lottery and raising enough\n               money for Jefferson to keep Monticello, \"I cannot bear\n               the idea that the graveyard of almost all my family\n               should be sold if I were to draw it is should never be\n               sold it should be kept for a graveyard for every\n               descendant of the Jefferson race\" and the possibility of\n               Dabney Terrell becoming Professor of Law at the\n               University of Virginia]","[discusses the lottery of Thomas Jefferson again,\n               preferring using a subscription to relieve his debt,\n               Jefferson went white when Jefferson Randolph proposed\n               putting Monticello into the lottery, and Uncle Dabney\n               has lost his little boy, Dabney Jefferson Carr\n               (1817-1826)]","[the marketing of the sugar from the plantation,\n               prospects of a loan on the plantation, and other related\n    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one of whom, Nelson, is a cooper,\n               and the University of Virginia law professor is to be\n               chosen on Monday by the Board of Visitors]","[contains genealogical notes, the conversion of\n               Burwell Randolph to Catholicism, her mother, the health\n               of [Jane Cary Randolph] improved, they may open a school\n               in Bedford, and family and personal news]","[no selection made as yet about the law\n               professorship, but confused by the proposal of William\n               Wirt as professor]","[instructions for their return to Baltimore]","[laments the death of Thomas Jefferson, wishing that\n               it had been Colonel Randolph who might have been taken\n               instead but who remains to \"torment his family a little\n               longer,\" her Aunt Maria is to petition the General\n               Assembly for a divorce, and sends greetings from Wilson\n               Cary Newsum (1808-1875) presently at the University of\n               Virginia]","[anecdotes of Thomas Jefferson's last days, warns of\n               the attempts of his father, Colonel Thomas Mann\n               Randolph, to get the money raised by selling lottery\n               tickets for Jefferson, and the disposal of Jefferson's\n               estate]","[writing from Monticello, describes a concert given\n               by dwarves in Charlottesville, mentions Jane Margaret's\n               suitor, Wilson M. 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Edward Dunlap Smith, of\n               New York, and the serious illness of Mrs. Betsy\n               Carr]","[includes genealogical notes, describes her school,\n               financial terms, and her teacher, welcomes the addition\n               of scholar Virginia Pasture, and her sympathy for\n               motherless children]","[grateful that her son, John, survived an attack of\n               cholera on his ship, fears that Jefferson Randolph's\n               decision to run for office will bring about financial\n               ruin, Jane has received a check from the Proctor at the\n               University of Virginia, asks about the folks at\n               Montebello and John Smith, mentions people at\n               Monticello, and the birth of boys to both Virginia Trist\n               and Jane Smith]","[describes her voyage from Baltimore to St. Augustine\n               on the General Marion, the storm off Cape Hatteras, the\n               rough seas on the way to Charleston drove them past he\n               port to Sullivan's Island and they had to sail back,\n               upon their arrival the mists were too thick to attempt\n               to enter the port of Charleston, another ship collided\n               with her vessel while at anchor and damaged it, though\n               it did not sink, they took a little schooner Samuel\n               Mills the rest of the way, encountering a strong gale\n               near Florida, and her thankfulness that little Sally was\n               safe at home with Sidney]","[reports on the improvements in her health, the many\n               others in Florida who do not appear able to recover, and\n               the purchase of Indian ponies by Wilson]","[discusses the improvements in her health, religion,\n               her separation from her little girl, and their projected\n               trip back home from Florida]","[plans to leave Florida on the schooner S.S. 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