To Thomas Jefferson from Anne Cary Randolph, 22 February 1805
From Anne Cary Randolph
Edgehill Feb 22 1804 [i.e. 1805]
I wrote to my Dear Grand Papa last post but I suppose he did not receive my letter or he certainly would have answered it. in my last letter I mentioned the changing my name to Anastasia but you did not say whether you approved it I am afraid my letters must be very tiresome to you as I have nothing to say but I intend to write to you every post adieu my Dear Grand Papa your most affectionate Grand daughter
A C R
RC (ViU: Edgehill-Randolph Papers); misdated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 22 Feb. 1805 received 27 Feb. and so recorded in SJL.
last post: she wrote to TJ on 14 Feb. No letter written before 22 Feb. and mentioning the name change has been found.
It was TJ who gave his first grandchild her name, doing so at the request of her parents and choosing “Anne” because it honored the infant’s paternal grandmother and “belongs also to Patsy’s family of both sides” (Vol. 14:368n; Vol. 19:582).