[2][3] Jefferson wrote to her even before she could write her own reply, sending her children's poems he cut from newspapers and magazines.
[5] She lived at Monticello and then Edge Hill, the home of her brother Thomas Jefferson Randolph.
"[6] Societal conventions regarding female roles prevented Randolph from fully exercising her talents, but after Jefferson's death she and other family members operated a school at Edge Hill.
Following the American Civil War, Randolph lived at the home of her niece Martha Jefferson Trist Burke in Alexandria, Virginia, where she died on February 24, 1871.
[2] A terra-cotta bust of Cornelia Randolph by sculptor William Coffee is in the South Square Room of Monticello.