2861From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We are dreadfully non-plussed here by the non-arrival of our three Professors. we apprehend that the idea of our opening on the 1 st of Feb. prevails so much abroad (altho’ we have always mentioned it doubtfully) as that Students will assemble on that day, without awaiting the further notice promised. to send them back will be discouraging, and to open an University without Mathematics or...
2862From Thomas Jefferson to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 11 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 28. is duly recieved. it gladdens me with the information that you continue to enjoy health. that is a principal mitgation of the evils of age. I wish that the situation of our friend M r Adams was equally comfortable. but what I learn of his physical condition is truly deplorable. his mind however continues strong, and firm, his memory sound his hearing perfect, and his...
2863From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Abbot Cummings, 14 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We had hoped to have opened our University on the 1 st of Feb. but as yet only two of our Professors are in place, those of antient and modern languages. three, who were engaged abroad, have for some time been hourly expected, and, on their arrival, those engaged at home will repair to their stations also and the institution be opened. the exact day depends therefore on the arrival of the...
2864From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 15 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the two last books you have been so kind as to send me. I have derived a great deal of information from Russel for the use of our University. I had only a borrowed copy, and had been disappointed in getting one from England: Bosworth is a treasure of Anglo-Saxon learning. there is much in him valuable, and new to me. he treads indeed in the footsteps of D r Hickes and...
2865Thomas Jefferson’s Notes within Joseph Bosworth’s “Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar,” ca. 15 Jan. 1825, 15 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
THE ELEMENTS OF Anglo-Saxon Grammar, WITH COPIOUS NOTES, ILLUSTRATING THE STRUCTURE OF THE SAXON AND THE FORMATION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: AND A Grammatical Praxis WITH A LITERAL ENGLISH VERSION: TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, REMARKS ON THE HISTORY AND USE OF THE ANGLO-SAXON, AND AN INTRODUCTION, ON THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF ALPHABETIC WRITING, WITH CRITICAL REMARKS BY THE REV. CHAS. O’CONOR, D.D....
2866From Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 15 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
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2867From Thomas Jefferson to John Griscom, 16 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you, by this mail, Russell’s book with many thanks for the use of it. indeed it has been of much use to me, as the state and course of education in Great Britain was not well known to me. a bookseller of Philadelphia undertook to import for me a copy, and to have it here by April last. on enquiring of him some time after that period, he informed me his correspondent in London assured...
2868From Thomas Jefferson to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 16 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have never been more gratified by the reading of a book than by that of Flourens which you were so kind as to send me Cabanis had gone far toward proving from the anatomical structure of and action of the human machine that certain parts of it were probably the organs of thought, and consequently that matter might exercise that faculty Flourens proves that it does exercise it, and that...
2869From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Abbot Cummings, 17 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you three days ago, inclosing the catalogues for our schools of Ant t & modern languages and antient & modern history. but it did not occur to me then that I might go somewhat further towards enabling you to begin to prepare a supply for us. the Professor of Law is not yet in place; and altho’ I cannot give you a full catalogue of what his school will call for, I can give a part...
2870From Thomas Jefferson to William Lee, 17 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We have no funds at present applicable to the purchase of the collection of shells of mr Wyer proposed in your favor of the 8 th and whether we shall have such funds depends on the allowance by Congress of a claim of the state of Virga now depending before them, and a portion of which is given to our Univ y if obtained. until this shall be determ d I can only hold the proposn of your letter in...