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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00496.212 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1808 |
| Title | John Randolph to Frances Bland Coalter about visiting her |
| Date | 18 September 1808 |
| Author | Randolph, John (1773-1833) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | 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. |
| Subjects | Congress Children and Family Women's History Finance Travel Health and Medical Disaster |
| People | Randolph, John (1773-1833) Bland Coalter, Frances (fl. 1803-1809) |
| Place written | Birane, Virginia |
| Theme | Children & Family; Women in American History; Health & Medicine |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | Randolph served fourteen terms as a representative from Virginia and one term as a senator. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |