1From Thomas Jefferson to William A.G. Dade, 31 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I must first congratulate you on the successful issus of the labors in which we were associated 7. years ago at the Rockfish gap. the plan we then reported, both as to buildings and the course of instruction for our University, is now at maturity; the former all but compleat, in a superior style of architecture, and found to be admirably adapted to the convenience of their tenants. the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William A.G. Dade, 21 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you on the 1 st inst. and having rec d no answer I am afraid my lre has miscarried. it proposed to your acceptance the professorship of law in our University. it was lengthy going into a minute detail of all the circumstances which might weigh with you in making up your mind on the acceptance, I can now add another circumstances as a matter of fact, that one of our Professors is now...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William A.G. Dade, 22 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a letter yesterday expressing my fear that a former one had miscarried, and yesterday evening learnt on probable grounds that that was the fact. without awaiting to learn this from yourself I have copied the letter and now send it by duplicate with a repetition of my wish for as early an answer as convenient and of assurances of my high respect and esteem. MHi .
4To Thomas Jefferson from William A.G. Dade, 30 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am duly sensible of the honour you have done me, in tendering the chair of the Professor of Law in the University of Virginia; and grateful for the kind and obliging manner in which you have been pleased to communicate it. Without doubt, the inducements to accept that offer are exceedingly strong; nor is it the least of them, that I should be thereby enabled to contribute my feeble aid...
5To Thomas Jefferson from William A.G. Dade, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
After the most deliberate review of the arguments for and against my acceptance of the Chair in the University, which has been lately offered to me, I still retain the opinion, with which I left Monticello, and must decline the invitation. It is not without great reluctance that I determine on a course in anywise thwarting your views, touching an institution, in which you have taken so warm an...