[34] She was in her ninth year.
[35] Mrs. Eppes's son, and little Polly's future husband.
[36] Martha Jefferson.
[37] His sister-in-law, Mrs. Eppes's sister.
[38] See Randall's Life of Jefferson, vol. i., p. 490.
[39] Shadwell is four miles distant from Monticello.
[40] It was on the occasion of a dinner-party, when some one proposing to drink the health of Mrs. Randolph, John Randolph rose and said, "Yes, gentlemen, let us drink the health of the noblest woman in Virginia."
[41] Mr. Randolph took her to Richmond.
[42] In a letter to his daughter, Mrs. Randolph, after mentioning the President's illness and convalescence, he says, "He continues mending to-day, and from total despair we are now in good hopes of him."
[43] This letter, as a matter of curiosity probably, was written in a book of the bark of the paper birch, having leaves seven inches long by four wide. (Note from Randall's Jefferson.)