Topic: Jefferson's Personal Life & Family
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Letter from Hannah
Letter from Hannah, a slave at Poplar Forest, to Thomas Jefferson 15 November 1818. Original manuscript from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts. Massachusetts Historical Society....
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Letter from Jefferson to his granddaughter Ellen
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Randolph 4 March 1805. Original manuscript from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts. Massachusetts Historical Society....
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Letter from John Hemmings to Thomas Jefferson
Letter from John Hemmings to Thomas Jefferson 28 September 1825. Original manuscript from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts. Massachusetts Historical Society....
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Letter from Maria Jefferson
Maria Jefferson writes to her father about her study habits. Image courtesy, Papers, of the Randolph, Jefferson, Eppes, Nicholas and Kean Families, MSS 2143 (TB 168), Special Collections, University of...
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Lewis and Clark Artifacts Arrive at Monticello
Artist G. B. McIntosh imagines the arrival at Monticello of a shipment of items sent to Thomas Jefferson by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the spring of 1806. Seen in the...
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Madison Room
This room, also called the North Octagonal Room, is named for James and Dolley Madison who often stayed here when visiting Monticello.
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Martha Jefferson Randolph
Portrait of Jefferson’s daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, by Thomas Sully...
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Martha Jefferson Randolph
Portrait of Martha Jefferson Randolph by James Westhall Ford
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Martha Wayles Jefferson, Jefferson’s wife
Only a few facts are known about Thomas Jefferson’s wife. There are no letters written by her. There are no pictures of her. Martha Wayles was born October 19, 1748 in Charles City County, Virginia. She married Thomas Jefferson in 1772 on New Year’s Day. She was twenty-three years old. Martha shared with Jefferson a…
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Mary Jefferson Eppes, Jefferson’s daughter
Mary (who was sometimes called Maria) was born in 1778 at Monticello. Her parents were Martha and Thomas Jefferson. When her mother died, Mary was only four years old. Jefferson sent Mary and her younger sister Lucy to live with their aunt. Soon little Lucy died. Jefferson often wrote Mary. He asked about her schooling,…