11Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 29 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the communication of mr Correa ’s letter, affectionate to us all, which I now return. no foreigner, I believe, has ever carried with him more, or more sincere regrets of the friends he has left behind. as he embraced in his affections our country generally, I hope his kind recollections will efface the little dissatisfactions he felt with our government before they...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 6 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The board of Visitors met the day before yesterday and I laid before them your letters, your report and documents and I have the pleasure to assure you that the manner in which you have executed your mission has given them the most perfect & unqualified satisfaction and they are especially pleased with your selection of Professors so far as they see of them as yet . I now return you the...
13Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 26 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, very dear Sir, and cordially for your little treatise on Usury, which I have read with great pleasure. you have justified the law on it’s true ground, that of the duty of society to protect it’s members, disabled from taking care of themselves by causes either physical or moral: and the instances you quote where this salutary function has been exercised with unquestionable...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been anxious to visit you and think I could do it; but D r Dunglison protests against it. I am at this time tolerably easy, but small things make great changes at times. I can only in this way then ask you how you do? and not requiring an answer from yourself but from such member of the family as is well enough. we have had a fine January, but may expect a better February. that month...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You have made me a magnificent present in the newly found work of Cicero; and the more precious, as the like is not to be had in the US. the partial terms in which it is conveyed, I duly ascribe to the friendship from which they flow. to the extended views into futurity which these present I have no pretensions. If the rancourous vituperations of enemies, made so, but bitterly so, by the...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 12 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to you but once since you left us, which was on the 5 th of June, and have duly recieved yours of June 6. 21. July 7. 20. Aug. 13. and 27. in that of July 20. you mentioned the possibility that you might be detained longer than we had expected, perhaps to Dec. or January, and wished a remittance of 6. or 700. D. for expences if lengthened, as possibly might be. this with your...
17Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 28 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 23 d and am sorry it is not in my power to give you the smallest degree of information on the enquiries it contains. it is now 40. years since we worked on the Revisal, and the particular act you speak of having been in that epoch of the British statutes assigned to mr Wythe , never became fell under my consideration but merely when submitted to the...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 20 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your lre of the 13 th was rec d on the 17 th and I can only express my sincere regrets that you do not permit us to consider you as accepting our Law-professorship. no one knows better than yourself the difficulty we shall have in getting a competent substitute. I abhor the idea of a mere Gothic Lawyer, who knows nothing out of Co. Lit. who would not be able to an iate with his colleagues in...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, the day before yesterday, Judge Dade’s final answer declining our law-chair, and yesterday I gave the information to the Visitors. I informed them at the same time that your health was so far restored as to give me hopes you might now accept it, and I referred to them to determine whether they would chuse to have a meeting to make a choice, or, recurring at once to their first...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 5 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The printer having disappointed me in getting ready, in time to send to you before your departure, the original report of the plan of our University, I now inclose you half a dozen copies, one for D r Stuart, the others to be disposed of as you please. I am sorry to inform you that we fail in getting the contingent donation of 50. M .D. made to us by our last legislature. so we have nothing...