1From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, mr Louis Buchanan Smith, son of Genl. Smith now acting as Secretary of the navy, proposing to visit Europe, I take the liberty of introducing him to your civilities & services. his personal merit will do justice to any attentions you shall be pleased to shew him, & his station & prospects in life render it interesting that he should derive from his travels all the advantages...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 13 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The course of things in the neighboring islands of the West Indies appears to have given a considerable impulse to the minds of the slaves in different parts of the US. a great disposition to insurgency has manifested itself among them, which, in one instance, in the state of Virginia broke out into actual insurrection. this was easily suppressed: but many of those concerned, ( between 20. &...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 17 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you the M.S. history of Bacon’s rebellion with many thanks for the communication. it is really a valuable morsel in the history of Virginia. that transaction is the more marked as it was the only rebellion or insurrection which had ever taken place in the colony before the American revolution. neither it’s cause nor course have been well understood, the public records containing...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 30 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume that while with us you must have become informed that we were establishing in Virginia an University on a scale of considerable respectability. we are now provided with funds to procure for the institution a competent library and Apparatus. for the former we have engaged a special agent, now on his departure for Europe, on that business. for the selection and purchase of our...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 30 th of June I took the liberty of addressing to you a letter requesting your kind aid to the University of Virginia so far as to permit yourself to be made the depository of a sum of 6300. D. or 1350. £ sterl to be called for by mr Barlow of Woolwich, in the manner and for the purposes therein stated; for which sum I inclosed you a bill of exchange; and in the same letter I mentioned...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 17 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In two former letters of June 30. and July 28. I took the liberty, on behalf of the University of Virginia of inclosing to you two bills of exchange, the one for 1350. £ sterl. cost here 6300. D. the other for 675. £ sterl. cost here 3157. D 50 c the former for the purchase of a philosophical apparatus, the latter for that of Anatomical articles, according to details in those letters. the...