Every day for six weeks at a time I have devoted from seven to eight hours to my Latin. … [Hour] after hour, I have poured over volumes of history. … I have often thought that the life of a student must be the most innocent and happy in the world. … [I]f I had been a man with the advantages of early education, I would have been just such a one, I think, but being a woman and not a rich woman, I must be content with peeping every now and then into a region too blissfull for my inhabitance.

Ellen Wayles Coolidge to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 July [1819], as quoted in Thomas Jefferson’s Granddaughter, pp. xviii-xix

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Lamennais, Félicité Robert de, 1782-1854 Amschaspands et Darvands Genève: A. Dechateauvieux, 1845 With a lengthy inscription on the front free endpaper
A new Spanish grammar: or, The elements of the Spanish language, containing an easy and compendious method to speak and write it correctly
Giral del Pino, Hipólito San Joseph A new Spanish grammar: or, The elements of the Spanish language, containing an easy and compendious method to speak and write it correctly London: C. Nourse, 1787 Signed on the half-title: [Randolph?], Virginie. Signed on the title-page: M. Randolph, Monticello.
Odae et fragmenta graece et latine. Ex editione Johannis Baptistae Gail, Parisiis vulgata
Anacreon Odae et fragmenta graece et latine. Ex editione Johannis Baptistae Gail, Parisiis vulgata Dublinii: R. E. Mercier, 1801 Signed on the title-page: J. Coolidge. Inscribed on a preliminary leaf: Rev. Joh. Barrett, D.D., Vice provost of Trin. Col. Dubl.
A Greek grammar of the New Testament translated from the German of George Benedict Winer by Moses Stuart and Edward Robinson
Winer, Georg Benedikt, 1789-1858 A Greek grammar of the New Testament translated from the German of George Benedict Winer by Moses Stuart and Edward Robinson Andover: Flagg & Gould, 1825
Joseph Coolidge portrait
Ellen Coolidge portrait