Extract included with letter from John Randolph to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1816 November 13.

I am sorry my sister has been sick. James has left for college. He is a young man of merit and good conduct.

Am enclosing a check for $1498. Please settle with the ladies for their portions.

Wishes they could not go to Low Country until frost. Health is improving by work and exercise and abstemiousness. Showed Mr. Coleman, their old townsman, his children. Youngest child of 16 months does not yet have his nose out of joint. Glad father agrees with him about convention. Has decided to retire from public life. Is too thin-skinned for a politician. Continues to hear good news from Beverley. Country is admired.

Writes now by friend Lacy to say wife has recovered, that Eliza Naylor is well. Has drawn on him for $1200 in foavor of Capt. Theodore Hunt. Wants remaining $509 paid to friend Speed.

Enclosing your salary check.

I think there will be over 1200 bushes of wheat. Have written Mr. Cabell about shipping it to Baltimore. Hope to furnish you with 1000 pounds of pork.

Letter of introduction for John Mason, son of General John Mason of George Town. He has studied in Parish and plans to finish his education at the College.

My son John is coming to William and Mary College. I beg permission to recommend him to your patronage. He has been to an academy in Paris for some years. He plans to study law in Williamsburg.

At the request of my mother Mrs. Jennings, I thank you for the two barrels of flour and two kegs of crackers.

Mr. Scott said that he had forwarded my check for dividends to you. Please send it to me. I fear that I will be bankrupt.

Distressed that you did not receive my letter of June 1815. It was written a few days after Mr. Skipwith left for France. Our crops are promising in sugar and cotton. It is for the children that we are retaining the estate. Sorry to hear of Col. Skipwith's death and the others. My sons are at an academy in Wilkes County, Ga. Our daughters are at an academy in Paris.

Mr. Allison has business in Richmond on Wednesday. I will come with him and see Mrs. Tucker. Is she well?

You can procure a loan from the Farmers Bank. It will be difficult to get.

Thank you for your attention to my request. Even though it imposed a task repugnant to your feelings.

Your strictures on the defects of History and the causes of them are well founded. I doubt whether future historians will do better. There is only one History free from error. It is instructive to all. Wish they had been more particular in details. Will learn what we wish to know after death. Whcih I feel cannot be far off.

Had hoped I would be well enough to set off for Norfolk. I am still too weak. Show this note to Tazewell and Taylor.

This series is currently being added to the Box/Folder List section of the finding aid. Please check back periodically for updates. This series contains the correspondence of St. George Tucker, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman, and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The series is arranged in chronological order.