Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father by Sally Cabot Gunning

Author:Sally Cabot Gunning [Gunning, Sally Cabot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-07-19T22:00:00+00:00

MARTHA SUMMONED EDGEHILL’S OVERSEER SECOND, an ordering of her priorities she did not wish to defend to Tom, but as Tom wasn’t there, she could do as she chose. The problems at Edgehill proved harder: The overseer reported that the granaries were not nearly full enough for the approach to winter, there weren’t enough bottles for the cider making, and two of the imported Varina slaves had run off.

“Let me think on these matters.”

Martha went to bed overwhelmed and freshly angry at Tom, but woke as if by miracle with answers in hand.

The neighbor to the east had sold them wheat and corn in the past and must be propositioned again. Monticello could loan bottles for the cider. The two runaways had family in Richmond; Martha need do nothing until she conferred with Tom—she knew where the slaves were. She rose and went at once to her husband’s desk to compose a note to her neighbor.

My husband having gone off to join my father in fulfilling his duty to our fledging nation I am caught short here at home. May I beg of you the greatest favor in the shape of wheat for our granary, should you have it to spare, the charge to be kept on account, which shall be paid as soon as we receive a return on our tobacco?

She took up a fresh sheet and began to compose a letter to Tom about the slaves, but pushed the letter aside after completing nothing but the salutation. If she wrote of her troubles to Tom, he would only answer with a list of his own.

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