Randolph, John, 1773-1833 to Frances Bland Coalter
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.212 Author/Creator: Randolph, John, 1773-1833 Place Written: Birane, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: September 18, 1808 Pagination: 2 p. ; 25 x 20 cm Order a Copy
Written by Randolph as a Virginia Congressman to his sister. Writes after learning she has been ill and hopes to visit the warm springs at which she is recuperating. Says he would have been home sooner but an unexpected demand for money left him without the means to pay for his passage home until after the court session was over. Tells her "This fact is for yourself alone; for altho' I am not ashamed of my poverty, I do not choose that it should be unnecessarily disclosed." Although he wanted nothing more than to visit her, he claims that the expedition "like everyone other which [my desire] has formed, seems doomed to perpetual disappointment." Says he has not travelled far from home since retuning from Washington, except for the court houses in the four counties in his district. Postscript says his household has been afflicted with the influenza.
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