1George Tucker to Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The disinterested and enlightened favor which you have uniformly shewn to public improvements of every sort, induces me to trouble you with the perusal of the inclosed tract on the Navigation of the Roanoke , and to ask you to favor me with its acceptance. The subject being of great local benefit, and not unimportant to the State, cannot be uninteresting to you. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as...
2To James Madison from George Tucker, 16 May 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have requested Mr. Milligan, the bookseller to forward to you a copy of a work which I have lately published, & of which I beg leave to ask your acceptance. With sentiments of profound respect, I am Sir, your obedt. Servt. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. [George Tucker], Essays on Various Subjects of Taste, Morals, and National Policy (Georgetown, D.C., 1822; Shoemaker 10492). George Tucker...
3To Thomas Jefferson from George Tucker, 23 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received a letter from M r Jos: C. Cabell requesting me to inform you whether I accept the offer of the Professorship of Moral Philosophy in the University, which you & M r Madison were pleased to make me through him some time ago. While I must frankly own I would rather continue in my present situation, yet imperious considerations of prudence have determined me to accept, and I...
4To Thomas Jefferson from George Tucker, 23 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been detained in this part of the Country somewhat longer than I expected by business which could not have been transacted by an agent, and I should proceed forthwith to the University if I was not a witness in a suit that will be tried next week in the Superior Court of Amherst. I shall go from thence to the University to take up my residence. MHi .
5To Thomas Jefferson from George Tucker, 30 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I submitted your proposition to the Faculty the day it was made, and it seemed to be the opinion of nearly all the gentlemen that altho’ we might give a license to teach dancing here, we had no right to dispose of the rooms in the buildings, but that such a power rested with the Procter or perhaps the Rector—I believe I can say there was every disposition on the part of the Faculty to further...
6To Thomas Jefferson from George Tucker, 6 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The attention of the Faculty having been called to the supposed unhealthiness of Major Spottswood’s Hotel, and the Dormitories on the same range, and having heard the statement and opinions of Dr Dunglison, they agree with him that from the frequent instances of fever in that quarter, as well as from the character of the disease it has probably proceeded from local causes—and this probability...
7To Thomas Jefferson from George Tucker, 11 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brown of Rhode Island, the bearer of this, has come to Albemarle for the purpose of paying his respects to you, & of visiting the University—He is recommended to me as an intelligent & respectable gentleman, and I therefore. gratify his wish in giving him this introduction to you— CSmH .
8To James Madison from George Tucker, 7 October 1826 (Madison Papers)
It is not without reluctance that I obtrude my individual concerns on your notice at any time, & more especially when your duties have been so laborious & impat[i]ent as at present. I can only say that if the business with which I am about to trouble you should interfere with higher objects, I should wish it postponed. In the course of the last year Mr. Brockenbrough informed me that the rule...
9To James Madison from George Tucker, 19 February 1827 (Madison Papers)
I at length return you Dr. Cooper’s new work with many thanks for your goodness in giving me so early an opportunity of seeing it, & not without some self-reproach for keeping it so long. A wish however to give it a close examination tempted me thus to abuse the permission you gave me. It is a good introduction to the study of political economy. The doctrines are at once liberal & sound, and...
10To James Madison from George Tucker, 27 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
As Mr. Harrison, who will deliver this is a candidate for the professorship which Mr. Long is about to vacate, I beg leave to submit to your inspection a testimonial in his favor from your venerable predecessor, who, in consequence of his frequent visits in the neighbourhood of Lynchburg, and his frequent intercourse with Mr. Harrison’s father, had such good opportunities of forming an opinion...