1Joseph 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...
2Joseph 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...
3Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented by business of late, from writing you respecting the fate of the Bill founded on the petition of the Rivanna River company . The Bill as it came up to the Senate contained merely a proviso saving private rights. M r Johnson drafted two amendments, one requiring that the tolls should be collected at the Locks, & only on what passed should pass thro’ them, so long as the...
4Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 7 th inst covering an abstract of the Bill respecting yourself & the Rivanna River C o , did not get to Warminster , till nearly a fortnight after I had left home for the lower country: and it was not untill the 26 th inst that I received it at this place. This will account for the delay of my answer; as well as for my not calling at Monticello on my way down, agreeably to your...
5Joseph 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...
6Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The last mail from Charlottesville brought me your letter of 17 th inst: accompanied by your three letters to m r Eppes on the subject of the ways & means of carrying on the war. Accept, I beseech you, my most sincere thanks for the communication of these papers which from the hasty perusal I have given them already promise me a fund of valuable & highly interesting matter. I shall observe...
7Joseph 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...
8Joseph 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...
9Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The dangers of our country will be my apology for troubling you with this letter. I wish to draw your attention to the important subject of our financial difficulties, & particularly those which will present themselves to the Gen l Assembly at its next session: and to sollicit the favor of you to put me in possession of any hints, or plans which you may think adapted to the crisis. I went to...
10Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 23 d Sep r reached me before I left home: that of 30 th since I came to this place. I have already given & shall continue to give to those letters the fullest consideration in my power. We have as yet settled upon no plan of finance or defence: & are waiting to hear the plans of congress . Our difficulties are great & encreasing. Your idea of issuing state certificates ought, & I...
11Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter, which I received under cover of your favor of 16 th Oct. having remained a sufficient length of time in my hands, I now return it agreeably to your desire, & beg you to receive my sincere thanks for the communication. I have taken the liberty to keep a copy of it, for my own gratification & instruction & for the occasional perusal of such friends as may be desirous to...
12Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long detention on the road by the deep snow that fell in the latter part of the month of January I arrived here on 5 th ult, since which I have had the pleasure to receive your favor of 5 th Jan: together with the papers enclosed. you have imposed on me new obligations by this communication. The particular posture of my domestic affairs at the time I reached home, and the new...
13Joseph 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...
14Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you by the last mail , that the bills respecting the Central College , and Capt: Miller ’s claim, had just reached the Senate : and that the former was objected to in two points: 1 st because it gives to the Trustees of the College the power of determining the time at which the act of 22 d Dec r 1796 . shall be carried into execution in albemarle , and 2
15Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the enclosed letter , I have conversed with m r Mercer of the lo House of Delegates , to whom I had lent your Letter to m r Carr , upon being informed by him that he had it in contemplation to endeavor to get a considerable part of the debt due from us by the Gen l Gov t
16Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Miller’s bill has passed. The Bill respecting the central college has also passed—but with modifications. The bill respecting the navigable waters of the commonwealth, with Col: Greene ’s amendments, has also passed. your various letters of late have been gratefully received: and your copy of the books in the national Library has been deposited in the Council chamber. I am compelled to...
17Joseph 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...
18Joseph 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...
19Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I saw General Cocke on his way to Norfolk , early in June, and had a conversation with him on the subject of Hedges: in the course of which he informed me that you were under the impression that Maine ’s method of preparing Haws, so as to make them vegetate quickly, had died with him. It affords me pleasure to furnish you with it, in an extract of a Letter written by Maine to M r James...
20Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to accept my sincere thanks for your favor of the 13 th ins t , and for the communication of the accompanying letter on the propriety of calling a convention to amend the constitution of Virginia . The information you give me on the subject of Hedges is very acceptable; it will exempt me from the mortification of failures in experiments that extend thro so large a portion of human...
21Joseph 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...
22Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 9 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The petition of Count Barziza was rejected some time past in the House of Delegates I have kept a watchful eye on the Turnpike Bill to which you desired me to attend. M r Thweat has shewn a very friendly anxiety on the occasion. I spoke to several of my friends in the low House of Delegates , to cooperate with him. M r Maury has been ill nearly the whole of the session. But an agreement has...
23Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bill respecting the Turnpike from Rockfish Gap was this day postponed indefinitely in the House of Delegates . Col: yancey , as I am informed by M r Thweat , did every thing in his power to push the Bill thro’ the House , after having consented to lay it on the table for the Balance of the session. The Bill for calling taking the sense of the people as to the expediency of calling a...
24Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had a good hunt for among my papers for Main ’s recipe for the preparation of Haws: and at length, after almost despairing, have found it in the midst of a small volume of extracts from Brown ’s Rural Affairs. I now send it to you, agreeably to your desire. I am, dear sir, very respectfully & truly yours RC ( ViU: TJP-PC ); endorsed by TJ as received 8 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in...
25Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place yesterday evening on my return home from the election in Goochland . Gen l Cocke informs me that he met you at Enniscorthy on his as you were going to Bedford , and that he learned from you that the meeting which you proposed of the Visitors of the Central College was intended to be on the day fixed in the Law for the Gen l meeting in the Spring, viz, on the first day...
26Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now do myself the pleasure to enclose you the list of English Books sold by Barrois at Paris , agreeably to my promise to you at M r Madison’s . Upon examination I find there are but few works, which you would probably wish to purchase. You would oblige me by the return of the catalogue at some future day, as I shall wish to make use of it from time to time. But I shall not want it for a...
27Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 7 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note of this morning has this moment been received by Gen l Cocke & myself. The association for an Agricultural Society , adjourned yesterday evening to 10’ 11’ O’clock this day. The Judge Stewart has been engaged to give an opportunity to the members of the Bar to attend. If we let slip this op- occasion, perhaps, it will be impossible to bring the gentlemen together a second time. Will...
28Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the use of the enclosed papers, which I have copied, and now commit to the first mail after my return to this place. I shall endeavor to make myself master as well of your plan for schools, as of that for Colleges, before the period at which these subjects will be taken up in the House of Delegates . If you could conveniently spare the time, I think it would be of great benefit...
29Joseph 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...
30Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived in town last evening, and received this morning at the post office your two letters of 18. & 19. inst , which now lie before me. Before I reply to them, I will go back to circumstances that preceded their arrival. I presume you have reached Monticello , and have received my last letter from this place, touching our prospects with the Cincinnati and the General Assembly . Shortly...
31Joseph 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...
32Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will not think me neglectful in not having sooner acknowledged the receipt of your letters of 31 st ult: and of 6 th 15 th 14 th and 15 th inst , to all of which I have paid all the attention compatible with my immediate and indispensable duties in the Senate .
33Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As I came out of the Capitol to-day, I was received from one of the doorkeepers the enclosed copy of the bill reported by the Committee of Schools & Colleges , which I have hastily looked over, and in regard to which I confess myself greatly disappointed. Indeed, Sir, the prospect before us is dreary indeed . Perhaps the subject may be dressed up in the House , but when a committee begins so...
34Joseph 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...
35Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1818 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Since I last wrote you the enclosed substitutes to for M r Scott ’s, or the Committee’s bill, have been offered in the House of Delegates . M r Taylor of Chesterfield , a member of good talents and standing in that House
36Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I now enclose you the Duplicate Patent of M r Des Essart ’s land, which I procured from the Land office, together with his letter to you , and the French copy of his Patent. I have retained a copy of his letter to you , of yours to me on the same subject, and of the Patent, which I shall put into the hands of M r Davisson , or some other member, for the purpose of procuring particular...
37Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I now do myself the pleasure to enclose you a printed copy of your bill, the printer having just sent the copies to the House . The subject will be agitated in the House of Delegates on tomorrow or the next day. I have no reasons to change my anticipations as to the result of the measures respecting the Literary fund stated in my former Letters to you. Yet I have thought it my duty still to...
38Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Louis Summers of the county of Kanawha & one of the members of the House of Delegates , proposes to leave town in the morning on his return to his constituents. It is possible that he may have it in his power to call at Monticello on his way thro’ Albemarle . I have taken the liberty to offer him a letter of introduction to you. It would give him great pleasure to become personally...
39Joseph 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
40Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 16 th is now before me. I thank you for your confirmation of what I did with your Letter . Whatever may be the success of a few interested men in lessening the weight your advice ought to have with the Assembly , as soon as the present contest is over, your conduct will command the respect of all, as it now does of the enlightened and liberal. I hasten to apprize you that our...
41Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The University Bill has passed very in the form of the enclosed, with one small exception. The appointment of the Commissioners is now a subject of infinite importance to us. The Executive, I think, will do us justice. But you will observe that vacancies are to be filled by the President & Directors of the Literary fund . Three out of five of these of the five come from beyond the mountain ....
42Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
I have just arrived here on my way home, having left my wife in the lower country till the roads get better. My plan is to stay at home about a week, and to call on you either in going or coming. When I get to Gen l Cocke ’s this evening, I shall be informed whether there is any necessity for my calling on my way up; sh d there not be, as I have great occasion to see to my domestic concerns, I...
43Joseph 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...
44Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot to leave with you, as I intended, a little book, called the Oxford & Cambridge Guide. It may be acceptable to you at the present Crisis. I will thank you for the return of it, when I come up in May, as I shall wish to look over it in the summer. I send it by the stage Driver. RC ( ViU: TJP-PC ); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Apr. 1818 and so recorded in SJL .
45Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by my brother William , the signatures of the majority of the subscribers to the funds of the Central College in Nelson County to the deed of conveyance of the property of the College to the Commonwealth on the condition of the location of the University at the Scite of the College . I have met with the ready assent of every subscriber to whom I have yet presented the paper; & I am...
46Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happily recovering from the severe fever which has, of late, confined me to my bed for 20 days, but am barely able to take a turn across the room. Col: Coles told me the substance of his conversation with you lately at Monticello ; observing, that you wished to go to Bedford & had a thought of calling on me on your way, but your health being bad, it was doubtful whether you would be...
47Joseph 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...
48Joseph 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
49Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Banks has not appointed as good a select committee as I had expected. There is a decided majority of the committee in favor of the Central College : but the eastern members are less attentive than the western. I have urged the importance of having a full meeting, before the final question is taken. M r Taylor is aware of the danger. The committee has had two meetings; at the first, it was...
50Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1818 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
The select committee of the House of Delegates on the subject of the university has just had a third meeting. 13 members attended. On the question whether the bill should be reported with a blank as to the scite, it was decided to fill in the negative by the casting vote of the Chairman . The Central College was selected as the scite, and the bill