[4] While some of the children struggled with their studies, by four years of age, Coolidge was deemed "wonderfully apt" by her mother.

[7] Coolidge and her siblings had an "idyllic rural life", playing outdoors on the plantation's vast lawn, acquiring a good education, and enjoying civility at Monticello.

In 1825, Coolidge commissioned her friend Jane Braddick Peticolas to capture a scene of her brother playing on the lawn as he is watched by two sisters.

[1] The couple moved to Boston and Joseph hired Cottrell out to Thomas Hewitt Key at the University of Virginia.

She primarily raised her six children as a single parent because Joseph Coolidge was overseas in China and Europe for extended periods of time.

[1] Thomas Jefferson's personal papers, passed down to the Coolidge family, were donated to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

The collection of manuscripts included architectural drawings, farm books, and the draft for Notes on the State of Virginia.