51Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your favor of 3 d ins t and have shewn it to M r Johnson . Should the case occur for which it was intended to provide, it shall be used. For the present M r Johnson & myself think it best not to exhibit it generally, as it might be the means of throwing still farther from us the gentleman to whom it was addressed. What course he will ultimately pursue, no one seems to...
52Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your letter of 31 st ult. and return you many thanks for the kind & friendly expressions it contains. It is not in my nature to resist such an appeal. I this day handed into the office of the Enquirer a notification that I should again be a candidate . We will pass on to matters of more importance. I have shewn your letter to Gen l Breckenridge & M r Johnson , who seemed (&...
53Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
My servant comes down to M r Minor ’s on business relative to my farm, and I profit of the opportunity to drop you a line, and to assure you that I should have been at Monticello a month ago, but for a return of bad health. I arrived here on 2 d June : was employed four or five weeks in necessary attention to my affairs, when I had an attack of the prevailing dyssentery, from the effects of...
54To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 17 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this place on the 12 th ins t and have employed the interval in taking lodgings & in occasional conferences on the interests of my district & of the state. My delay in getting to town was owing to the failure of an overseer to come to one of my farms at the time I expected him, & partly to the desire of M rs Tucker to prolong her stay in the mountain air. I wished and intended to...
55Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed subscriptions to the funds of the College by M r Tucker and M r Coalter are made by those gentlemen to demonstrate their favourable opinion of the institution and friendly regard to those who have its management entrusted to their care. Having been exposed five hours on the water in going down the Rappahannock from Urbanna , and several in returning, an inflammation arose on one...
56Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot find among the Delegates from Louis a and the neighbouring counties a person with to whom I should like to entrust your papers in the case of M r Des Essarts . The Senator mentioned in one of my late letters is too loose in his habits of business to expect from him a complete & satisfactory execution of such a commission. M r Johnson of the
57To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty in my publication under the signature of “ A friend of Science ” in the Constitutional Whig of Tuesday, more correctly printed in the Enquirer of to day, to give to the public your letter to me from Poplar Forest in the year 1817, and in doing so, I hope I have taken no improper liberty. I saw the gathering necessity of setting up the Colleges ag t the Richmond party,...
58To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 15 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The publication of the Extract from your last letter to me was made with the approbation of Judge Carr and I hope will not be disagreeable to you, as I am sure it will produce a very good effect. The Lottery Bill was not taken up to-day. It has gained ground for some days past, & I have no doubt will pass, but not without a large minority. We have a wayward house to deal with, but I hope you...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 31 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of 22 d ins t one of them covering the Report from Rockfish Gap, have safely arrived, & both of them have received my most attentive consideration. Your private letter has been seen, and will be seen, only by myself. On 29 th ins t I wrote M r George Tucker a letter in conformity to your desire, of which the enclosed is a copy. After the most attentive perusal of the other...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your favor of 28 th ult: and feel much gratified that you approve the view which I took of the subject of the primary schools. I am very much pleased at your suggestion of a method by which a meeting of our board may be deferred till the regular period in the month of April. It would be very inconvenient for me to attend an intermediate meeting, and the method you suggest will...
61Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Grateful, truly grateful, is it to my heart, to be able to announce to you; the result of this day’s proceedings in the House of Delegates . In Committee of the whole, the question was taken, after an elaborate discussion, on the question motion to strike the Central College from the Bill . The vote was as follows;—for striking out 69—against it 114—majority ag t striking out 45 . This is a...
62Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my letter of 18 th ins t the meeting therein alluded to has taken place. I find M r Johnson totally averse to any expression of opinion on the subject of the Ancient charters. Our meeting broke up without any valuable result. The want of a Report on the state of the Literary fund , paralizes every thing
63Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 31 st ult has come to hand, and I am happy to learn from it that your books arrived in safety. The free communication of your opinion upon the subject of the alledged Right of the Gen l Assembly to annex additional qualifications to the members of the House of Representatives of Congress , places me under great obligations. Your letter did not get to hand before the subject was...
64To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your favor of 12 th ins t I am at all times disposed favorably to every thing which you think best for the University and make no doubt but that on this occasion you have pursued the course best calculated to promote its interests. I certainly intend to leave this on thursday the 27 th ins t and after making a visit to my farm in Nelson, to come to...
65Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of 5 th ins t relative to the subject of the petition of the Rivanna Company . You may rest assured that I shall pay the most pointed attention to this business, and do every thing in my power to guard your rights from invasion. I immediately held a preliminary conversation with my friend Johnson , after which I waited on M r Barber Barbour , & obtained the use of...
66Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Bill has this moment passed into a law. The House of Delegates having first rejected the amendment of the Senate for $80,000: and then that for $40,000—and the having postponed the whole bill on 22 d ; Gen l Breckenridge , m r Johnson
67Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 1 st inst is now before me. With the nature & object of the petition you allude to, I was already acquainted from having received an explanatory letter from your grandson , covering a copy of the remonstrance. I had also conversed as well with him as with m r maury . I advised m r maury without delay to have an interview with his colleague , and to endeavor to obtain his...
68To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 5 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the satisfaction to enclose you a copy of the Act concerning the University, which has this moment passed the Senate, and is now the Law of the Land. The vote on the passage of the Bill in the House of Delegates was 121–to 66. The vote in the Senate was 19 to 3. I hereby give my assent to the Loan authorized by this act. I shall get M r Johnson and M r Loyall to write you to the...
69Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have got thus far on my way home, and entrust to the neighbouring post office, your letters on Finance, which I hope will safely reach you. I must beg your pardon for having detained them longer than the period of my engagement. My private business in the lower country took up much more time than I had anticipated, and I was compelled to keep your letters thus long in order thoroughly to...
70Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note of 6 th ins t by M r Garrett covering the advertisement for the workmen for the University has been received. I walked immediately to the office of the Enquirer & had the advertisement inserted in that paper, where I shall cause it to be continued for some successive papers. I have introduced M
71To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 6 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of April 15th reached me on yesterday at this place. It had gone on to Warminster when I last had the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello, and was forwarded thence by the mail to Norfolk. I cannot perceive any good ground of objection to the purchase of M r Perry’s land, in the manner you propose. On the contrary, I give to the measure my most hearty approbation. I am very...
72Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a note from Wills’s in Fluvanna on my way up, in which I mentioned my intention to call on you on my return to the Lower Country. From the state in which I find my business affairs, I expect it will be the 26 th of the month before I shall be at Monticello . In the interim, I think it may not be amiss for me to say a few words to you by letter. From the best information I can...
73Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The Senate formed a House to-day: the House of Delegates yesterday . A conference between Mess rs Carr and Gordon & myself held this morning resulted in an agreement to get M r Taylor of Chesterfield to bring forward the subject of the University
74To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 13 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 16 ult. covering M r Madison’s letter to you of the 20 th was handed to me by Capt Peyton in Richmond in the latter part of the month. I have heretofore declined writing in reply, because I have entertained the hope of visiting you as desired, in which event a written answer would be unnecessary. Nothing, I assure you, could have been more agreeable to M rs Cabell & myself than...
75Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not deemed it necessary to write you in reply to your letter relative to the charter of W m & Mary College , because the passage of the University Bill rendered it unnecessary. But altho’ I shall see you on the first monday in next month, yet it becomes necessary that I should say a few words to you at this time. The Bill concerning the appropriation of the Literary Fund , by which the...
76Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you hastily by a late mail a short letter containing the substance of our proceedings respecting those Bills in which you felt a particular interest. A more particular statement may not be unacceptable to you. Capt: Miller ’s Bill passed by in the Senate by a vote of 12 to ab t 5. after an elaborate discussion, in which not only the merits of the particular claim, but the general law...
77To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 13 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope no apology is necessary for the liberty which I take in sending you the Book accompanying this; as it may throw some light on one of the principal characters who stands accused of an agency in the late conspiracy in the west, and may cast a distant & feeble ray on the conspiracy itself. For some time past, in reading the accounts of the transactions at New Orleans, my eye has been...
78Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Conformably to your advice, I urged the friends of the University to hasten the proceedings of the House of Delegates upon that subject, and to get the Bill up to the Senate before Christmas . Unfortunately, however, the Bill is now lying on the table of the Lower House , after one reading & an order to print. As we met on 17 th 7
79Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 28 th ult: was received on monday time enough to be answered by the mail of that evening, but I declined doing so in order to have an opportunity of conversing with some of my friends before I should write. I am very sensible of the truth of all that you say on the inadequacy of the funds for the University : and most willingly would I co-operate in augmenting them: but knowing...
80Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of 18. and 19. ult , were both received at the same time, and had been lying in the post office at this place, some days before my return from Williamsburg . Since their receipt to this time, I have been unusually employed on a joint committee of the two houses , of Assembly , and in the Senate . But I lost not a moment in attending to your request respecting the rates of...
81To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 30 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that M r Gordon & M r Rives arrived in town last evening, & have attended the House to-day. M r Gordon called on me this morning, when I disclosed to him, what I had done in his absence, and my present views & prospects. I have conferred with M r Hunter, M r Carey, M r Bowyer, M r Taylor of Botetourt, M r Baldwin, & c and the almost unanimous opinion of us all, is,...
82Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on this day week relative to our views & movements as to the University to that date. On the 11 th ins t I directed the public printer to send you a copy of the Accountant’s Report on the Literary Fund , on the last page of which you will see that the Revenue of the Fund barely satisfies existing appropriations. This fact was announced to me on the
83Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 19 th has this moment arrived. I am sorry that it is out of my power to attend the meeting at M r Madison ’s on friday. In the present state of the roads, and with such symptoms as I have lately experienced, it would be improper in me to undertake the journey. I hope you will be able to secure the attendance of M r Watson and Gen l Cocke ; and even if you should not, I am pretty...
84Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I expected when I wrote you from Williamsburg , that my Servant would have come up with me from that place on the 5 th inst; but one of my horses being unavoidably detained, I was compelled to leave him behind; & was consequently disappointed, for the moment, in sending him on with your books. I was only waiting for his arrival, when to-day, I fell in with Gen l Moore , who told me he should...
85Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving the friendly & obliging letter which you wrote me on the 27th of last month , together with the one enclosed, from Judge Cooper of Pennsylvania , to yourself, of 10 th of May : & I feel some anxiety of mind least the tardiness of my reply, m to you, may be the cause of procrastinating yours to Judge Cooper much longer than may be agreeable to you. But as I did...
86To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 23 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 13 th ins t came safely to hand by the mail. I have shewn it to m r Gordon & M r Rives. My own impression is that in touching the subject of the unliquidated debt, we should merely guard against future unfavorable imputations, by stating that it might and probably would exceed the conjectural amount mentioned in your letter, and that when you wrote, the settlement was in a...
87To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 16 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th ins t was delivered to me by my servant on the 11 th I deferred writing till now because I thought my answer would not reach you as soon by the mail from Warminster, as by that from Columbia, which place I shall pass in a few hours from this time on my journey to the lower country. I was very much pleased at the limitation of the foreign professors to a moiety of the...
88Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received in due time by the mail, your favor respecting M r Read ’s Miller ’s petition: and I have deferred writing to you, till the fate of that bill, & of the bill respecting the Central College , could be ascertained, so far as it depended on the House of Delegates . Both these bills arrived in the Senate this day: and I have had them committed, and shall take all the care of them in the...
89To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 18 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many thanks for your favor of 4 th ins t covering your plan of a Jail. Reports of your being indisposed had induced me to repent that I had written to you, & to resign the expectation of hearing from you. I wished to fulfil in the best manner practicable the promise I had made to the Court. I therefore wrote to M r Peck with whom I was acquainted, inviting himself & his partner M...
90To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 17 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 21 st inst I shall take passage in the steam boat for the city of Washington. My stay there will be short, but I will endeavor to collect & bring you all the information I can obtain relative to the claim of the University. You are the best judge of the measures proper to ensure the recovery of this just debt: but I beg leave to urge the importance of letters addressed by yourself & M r...
91Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Least your Enquirer of the 28 th Jan: may have miscarried, I now have the pleasure to enquire enclose you that paper. The President & directors of the Literary Fund have placed us in an aukward dilemma by an egregious mistatement of the amount & proceeds of the Fund. Relying as usual on the statements of that Board, we have appropriated $80,000. as part of the Revenue of the Fund; when in fact...
92To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 29 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the gratification to enclose you by our friend M r Garrett a copy of the University act of the present session. It passed the Senate unanimously. Attempts were made to amend it: but we were determined to pass the bill as it came to us; because our friends in the other House warned us of the imminent danger of its return. I was ill in bed when the proviso to which you so much object...
93To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that our efforts have eventuated in success, and that the College party have been defeated in the House of Delegates by a majority of 24. You need not give yourself any further trouble on this subject. Our friends & myself concur in thinking that it would be improper to bring in the bill for dividing the funds of the College. The public mind is not prepared for so bold...
94To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Cocke will inform you that the cause of my failure to attend at the University on yesterday, was that I had not sufficiently recovered from the severe & tedious illness by which I have been unhappily visited. My convalescence is much slower than I expected, and is further prolonged by successive relapses. Some days past, I was taken with the ague & fever, which often follows in the rear...
95Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1818 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my last letter to you I have had conferences with the Presidents of the three Banks in this place on the subject of the proposed loan in anticipation of the resources of the College . The enclosed letters between Doctor Brokenbrough & myself, contain the best terms which it has been in my power to procure. From my conversation with M r Hatcher I am led to doubt whether the...
96Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length procured from the Editor of the Enquirer & now return your original Letter to M r Carr . Its publication, in my opinion, was well timed, and has had produced a happy effect on the measures of the assembly . We have appropriated all our U. States’ debt, except $600,000, to the purposes of education , and have required the President & Directors of the Literary Fund , to report...
97To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor by M r Brokenbrough has been duly received. I have shewn it to some members for the purpose of evincing the willingness of the board to meet all charges. But the letter of Oldham made no impression here; and I believe it was met so promptly, there has been no attempt to use it for mischievous purposes. It deserves, in my opinion, no serious notice from any one. M r Brokenbrough’s...
98To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 10 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 7 th inst has this moment been received. I was already sitting down to add to my last letter. I am distressed to inform you that leave was given on yesterday to bring in your bill by a majority of only 4. I was out among my friends last evening, and I learn from them that there is no doubt of its passage, but that the majority will be considerably less then as lately expected. I...
99Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much concerned not to be able to attend the meeting of the Visitors or the Albemarle election, in consequence of an indisposition contracted in travelling thro the late severe weather. I hope my friends will make known the cause of my absence from the election, and make my apology to the people. I shall endeavor to call on you on my way down the country. I profit of the opportunity by M r...
100Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on 11 th inst on my way to Monticello , and on 12 th was visited by a most unexpected and mortifying relapse, which, tho in part removed, still hangs lingering about me, has thrown me into a weak & delicate state of body, and threatens to deprive me altogether of the satisfaction & advantage of seeing you before the meeting of the Assembly . I yield the idea of a personal...