31To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented to you by our friend Gen l Cocke, whom I am truly sorry not to accompany on his journey to Monticello. My brother in Law, Docter Carter, having departed this life on 30th ult: leaving his affairs in a very embarrassed situation, it becomes necessary for some one of his surviving friends to attend at Lancaster Court on the 3 d monday in this month to qualify as his...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 9 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you very sincerely for your letter of 28 Dec: and am mortified at the circumstance of my having been the cause of so much trouble to you. I am happy to inform you that our prospects are now very favourable. Every thing is understood, every thing is arranged. Our bill will be introduced in the Committee of Schools & Colleges in a day a two. We ought to have had a select Committee to get...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 27 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith return you M r Coffey’s work on the state Prison of New York, with my best thanks for the use of it. I will take the liberty to retain Roscoe’s work a little longer as I have been so much engaged in my brother’s affairs of late as to have been unable to read it. I am sorry to inform you that I am unable to find the Oxford & Cambridge Guides any where about my House, & that I know...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your intended application to the Legislature has excited much discussion in private circles in Richmond. Your Grandson will doubtless give you a full account of passing occurrences. A second conference was held at M r Baker’s last evening, at which were four of the Judges of the Court of Appeals, & several members of the Legislature. Finding considerable opposition in some of your political...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place on yesterday and to-day shall proceed on my journey to the county of Lancaster, but from my detention in Nelson in consequence of my late purchase it will probably be out of my power to get back to the meeting of the Assembly. Indeed, I fear I shall be compelled to be absent nearly all the month of December, as I shall probably have to return to Nelson. As Gen l...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 4th ins t has arrived, and has been read with the greatest interest by myself & the friends to whom I have shewn it. M r Garland’s scheme of 24 Colleges in my view is pregnant with mischief. The only way to defeat it, is to present to the house a better plan in lieu of it. My mind has been on the wing for some days, and a view of this most important subject has occurred to me,...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 1 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My plan was to leave the City to-day, so as to get to Monticello on saturday. But finding I cannot reach the point I desired in time to do so, I must now defer my departure till saturday or sunday, when I expect to set out on my return, and taking the monday’s stage from Fredericksburg, arrive at Monticello on tuesday. Should I not come myself, you may expect to receive a letter from me. But...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume you have already been informed by Col: Randolph of the result of our long continued struggles for the Bonus of the Farmer’s Bank. We have been compelled to relinquish it to the Improvement Fund, and to accept an equivalent out of the Balance of the debt due from the General Government. Never have I known so obstinate a struggle between the two Houses of Assembly. M r Johnson has...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 3 d ins t has been duly received, and your requests attended to. Both the letter and the enclosed resolutions have been shewn to M r Loyall, and to him alone. He will unite in supporting the resolution relative to the text books on government. It would be very agreeable to us to know the time of our next meeting; but I suppose it is impossible to place it on a footing of greater...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 6 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter from M r Tucker in reply to mine of which you have a copy, I send for the purusal of yourself & M r Madison alone. I can see no objection to its communication thus far, altho’ I expect M r Tucker wrote it with an expectation that it would not go beyond me. I expected he would hesitate about accepting a situation which would cut him off from all prospect of future promotion....