![]() Family letters indicate that the Jefferson household entertained a near constant round of relatives, neighbors, friends, acquaintances, and even national and international celebrities. ![]() The obligation to entertain the flow of visitors-both invited and unexpected-could be overwhelming. Monticello was famous for its hospitality and cuisine. (1768–1828), and their eleven children joined the Monticello household, as did Jefferson’s sister Anna Marks (1755–1828), and, eventually, a grandson-in-law, his grandmother, and three great-grandchildren. ![]() His wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (1748–1782), had been dead for nearly twenty-seven years, but his oldest daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772–1836), her husband, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. ![]() W hen Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) retired from the presidency in 1809 and returned to Monticello to live year-round for the first time since 1796, his domestic world was expansive and complex. ![]()
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