1Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commissioners, 4 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners for the University of Virginia having met, as by law required at the tavern in Rockfish gap on the blue ridge , on the 1 st day of August of this present year 1818 , and having formed a board, proceeded on that day to the discharge of the duties assigned to them by the act of the legislature intituled an “act appropriating part of the revenue of the literary fund and for...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Creed Taylor, 8 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you have the goodness to accept a copy of the journal of the law school; and believe me, when I assure you, how much gratified I should be, if the system should meet your approbation, and you would allow me, to make it known, through the medium of the press. Permit me, as one of your fellow citizens, to tender you, my most sincere thanks, for your unwearied exertions in the establishment...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Creed Taylor, 27 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of the 8 th and have to return you my thanks for the copy of the Journal of the Law-school which you have been so kind as to send me, requesting at the same time an opinion on it’s merits for the press. it is now 50. years since I retired from the practice of the law, and my vocations since that time have not been of a character to keep me in familiarity with...