This letter was separate from another of this date from TJ to Randolph, not found, recorded in SJL with TJ’s notation that it concerned the “report of Visitors.” On 5 Dec. 1820, the day after the Virginia legislative session opened, Randolph wrote as president of the Literary Fund to Linn Banks, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, enclosing the University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 2 Oct. 1820, “with the proper accompanying Documents,” to be “laid before the Legislature” (RC in Vi: RG 79, House of Delegates, Speaker, Executive Communications; docketed by William Munford as clerk of the House of Delegates: “250 Copies of this, and of the Report of the Rector & Visitors of the University, with the accompanying documents, to be printed immediately, in the Pamphlet form”; printed in Report and Documents for 1820 description begins Report and Documents respecting the University of Virginia, Richmond, 1820, containing a 2 Oct. 1820 report by the Board of Visitors and supporting documents description ends , 3).

New York governor DeWitt Clinton reported on his state’s “highly liberal” support for education in a speech to the state legislature on 7 Nov. 1820, noting that “perhaps the whole appropriation for the promotion of education, may be estimated at two millions and a half of dollars” (Journal of the Senate of the State of New-York: at their Forty-Fourth Session [Albany, 1820], 8; Richmond Enquirer, 14 Nov. 1820). the girls who traveled to Poplar Forest with TJ were his granddaughters Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) and Virginia J. Randolph (Trist).