RC (MoSHi: TJC-BC); endorsed by TJ as received 9 Oct. 1817. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to John L. E. W. Shecut, 29 Dec. 1817, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr, Monticello, Albemarle County By post to Charlottesville”; franked; postmarked Richmond, 6 Oct. Enclosure: Sundry Documents on the subject of a System of Public Education, for the State of Virginia, Published by the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, in obedience to a Resolution of the General Assembly (Richmond, 1817; another copy listed in Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 5 [no. 211], is now in DLC: Rare Book and Special Collections, inscribed in Alexander Garrett’s hand “From The County Court of Albemarle to Thomas Jefferson esqr”), consisting of TJ’s 1778 Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge (PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 41 vols. description ends , 2:526–35); TJ to Peter Carr, 7 Sept. 1814; a “Report of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, to the General Assembly, in December, 1816”; “A Bill, ‘Providing for the establishment of Primary Schools, Academies, Colleges, and an University;’—passed the House of Delegates the 18th, and rejected by the Senate the 20th of February, 1817” (see note to Joseph C. Cabell to TJ, 19 Feb. 1817); TJ’s 1779 Bill for Amending the Constitution of the College of William and Mary, and Substituting More Certain Revenues for Its Support (PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 41 vols. description ends , 2:535–43); a circular letter from Governor Wilson Cary Nicholas, Richmond, 30 May 1816, to “sundry gentlemen, on the subject of a system of public education for the state of Virginia”; and answers to that circular by James Monroe, Thomas Cooper, John Augustine Smith, Timothy Dwight, and Samuel L. Mitchill.