Thomas Jefferson’s Cost Estimates for University of Virginia Board of Visitors, [by 2 October 1820]
Cost Estimates for University of Virginia Board of Visitors
[by 2 Oct. 1820]
Notes for the consideration of the Visitors.1
This Report proposes to the Legislature: qu. 1820.?
| 1. to cancel the loan authorised & transform it into an approprian of | 60,000 | . | |
| 2. to relieve the present annuity from the further2 charge of buildings | 45,000 | 3 | |
| 3. to appropriate of the Literary fund for building the Library | 40,000 | ||
| 145,000 | 4 | ||
| 4. to enlarge the annuity to the full establmt of the law. [say to 30,000.] | |||
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| A general idea of the application of a revenue of 30,000.D. | D | ||
| 9. Professors @ 2000.D. each | 18,000 | ||
| 1. do of Modern languages | 1,000 | . | |
| Books, suppose 600. vols a year @ 10.D. | 6,000 | ||
| Philosophl Chemical & astronomical instruments | 1,000 | ||
| Bursar & Proctor | 1,500 | . | |
| Laborers and servants | 1,000 | ||
| Botanic garden, grounds, repairs, contingencies | 1,500 | 5 | |
| 30,000 | |||
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| A general idea of the application of a revenue of 15,000.D. | |||
| *6. professors. towit of | Antient languages | 2,000 | |
| Modern languages | 1,000 | ||
| Mathematics. | 2,000 | ||
| Natural Philosophy, chemistry, mineralogy | 2,000 | ||
| Botany, Zoology | 2,000 | ||
| Law. | 1,000 | ||
| Books, say 150. vols. a year @ 10.D. | 1,500 | . | |
| Philosoph. Chemical & Astronomical instruments | 500 | . | |
| Bursar & Proctor | 1,500 | . | |
| Laborers and servants | 750 | . | |
| Botanic garden, grounds, repairs, contingencies | 750 | ||
| 15,000 | . | ||
| In both cases there will be a supplementory6 fund of rents viz. | |||
| 5. hotels at half rent, say of about 5. prcent on their cost | 1,000 | . | |
| 100. Dormitories @ 20.D. each [i.e. 10.D. a head on each student] to be reserved for additional dormitories, or for a saving fund | 2,000 | . | |
| 3,000 | .7 | ||
| omitting | 1. | Anatomy & Medecine |
| 2. | Govmt, polit. econ. | |
| L. nature & nations | ||
| History | ||
| 3. | Ideology, genl grammar | |
| Ethics. Rhetoric | ||
| Belles Letters. fine arts |
MS (ViU: TJP); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated, but presumably composed prior to the 2 Oct. 1820 meeting of the Board of Visitors; brackets in original; endorsed by TJ: “Estimates.”
The report was the University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 2 Oct. 1820. The law was “An act for establishing an University,” which the Virginia General Assembly approved on 25 Jan. 1819 ( [1818–19 sess.], 15–8; TJ’s Bill to Establish a University, printed above at 19 Nov. 1818). l. nature: “Law of nature.”
1. Preceding seven words in left margin at head of text.
2. Word interlined.
3. Reworked from “30,000.”
4. Reworked from “130,000.”
5. Reworked from “2,500.”
6. Word interlined.
7. Remaining text is in left margin adjacent to asterisk to which it is keyed.
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