Monticello Mar. 25. 26.
Dear Sir.
My grandson Th: Jefferson
Randolph, being on a visit to
Boston, would think he had seen nothing were he to leave it
without
having seen you. altho' I truly
sympathise with you in the trouble these
interruptions give, yet I must ask for him permission to pay to you his
personal respects. like other young people, he wishes to be able, in the
winter nights of old age, to recount to those around him what he has
heard and learnt of the Heroic age preceding his
birth, and which
of the Argonauts particularly he was in time to have seen. it was the
lot of our early years to witness nothing but the dull monotony of
Colonial subservience, and [our ?] of our riper ones
to breast the labors and
perils of working out of it. theirs are the Halcyon calms succeeding the
storm which our Argosy had so stoutly weathered. gratify his
am-
bition then by recieving his best bow, and my solicitude for your
health by enabling him to bring me a favorable account of it. mine is
but indifferent, but not so my friendship and respect for you.
[Address]
[Endorsement]
March 25
1826