401From Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 30 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
a sack of salt. ViCMRL .
402From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 25 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the Report rendered by mr Gilmer to the Visitors on his return, together with the Catalogue and cost of the books purchased for us . as also the Catalogues and cost of the apparatus purchased and the balance of £ 163–1. sterl. left undrawn in the hands of the banker at our order, balances his account for the 1800. £ sterl his compensn for time, services & expence on the mission...
403From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Sigourney, 23 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to mr and mrs Sigourney and his regrets that the state of his health confines him to the house or he would have had the pleasure of calling on them in Charlottesville. under this disability he asks the favor of them to dine with him at Monticello tomorrow. NhCSp .
404From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 22 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the fifty thousand Dollars lately deposited in the Virginia and Farmer’s bank in Richmond to the credit of the University of Virginia, be pleased to have eighteen thousand Dollars deposited in the United States bank in Philadelphia to the credit, and subject to the order of William Hilliard of Boston, agent of the University of Virginia for the purchase of books. Which deposit charge to the...
405From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Greenhow, 22 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my lre of Apr. 13. I requested you to get any anatomical preparns executed which would, in your opn be useful to us, and could be executed in your city . Doct r Dunglison has now furnished me with a particular list of what he would wish to obtain, and I have the double favor to request of you 1 to have done for us such of them as can be done there, and 2. to inform me of what cannot be done...
406From Thomas Jefferson to William Hilliard, 22 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th has been duly recieved. our money is deposited in the bank of Virginia and Farmer’s bank in Richmond and our Bursar will write by the next mail (of the 25 th ) to have the sum of 18,000. D. immediately deposited to your credit in the bank of the US. at Philada. I have added 3000. D. to the 15. M originally agreed upon. further than this our funds do not admit us to go at...
407From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bonnycastle, 21 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in great hopes that yourself and mr Gilmer by comparing recollections might have brought your minds together on some definite ground. as it is, I shall lay the case before the visitors, of whose liberal disposns on the occasion you may be assured. taking your proposn as a basis, I am confident there will be little difficulty in coming to an arrangement mutually satisfactory, some...
408From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 17 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A chronical complaint which has been troublesome for some time has within a few days become too much so to be longer unattended to. I must ask your advice in it therefore as soon as you can come with convenience. it disables me from going out either on horseback or in a carriage. friendly & respectful salutns MHi .
409Thomas Jefferson: Record of Robley Dunglisin’s visits, 17 May - 20 Sept. 1825, 17 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Dunglison. visits May 17. 18. 20. 21. 23. 25. 27. 30. June 3. 5. 7. 10. 11. 14. 20. 22, July 8. 16 19. 22. 26 Dunglison 1825. Aug. 25. Bougie. 26. 28. Sep. 2. 5. 7. 10. 13. 17. 20 DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
410From Thomas Jefferson to John Patten Emmet, 16 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly rec d and considered your letter proposing to erect a distinct building for the Chemical Laboratory & lecturing room, and with it the plan you have been so kind as to suggest. this appears indeed to contain all the articles called for in such a building, and arranged with great convenience. the proposition however is beyond the powers delegated to me, and there will be no meeting...
411From Thomas Jefferson to John V. Kean, 16 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The object of the reguln you quote, in yours of the 13 th , against permission to stranger or students to take books from their shelves, was to prevent their being misplaced thro’ carelessness or inattention. it is a rule in all considble libraries because a book misplaced is in fact lost, as nothing but accident or a revision of the whole library book by book can ever find it again. it was to...
412Thomas Jefferson: List of UVa. professors, 16 May 1825, 16 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Garrett Southall Wood Bonnycastle , — Key Long ViU .
413From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brockenbrough is authorised and desired to execute a bond to John M Perry for 3600. D. 93 cents payable May 15. 1827. in consideration of 132. acres 3. poles of land conveyed by him to the use of the University at the price of 50. dollars the acre, of which price 3000. D. is to be paid immediately, and the balance, with interest from this date is to be secured to him by the bond of the...
414To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 May 1825 (Madison Papers)
Every offer of our Law chair has been declined, and a late renewal of pressure on Mr. Gilmer has proved him inflexibly decided against undertaking it. What are we to do? The clamor is high for some appointment, we are informed too of many students who do not come because that school is not opened, and some now with us think of leaving us for the same reason. You may remember that among those...
415From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 13 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Every offer of our Law chair has been declined, and a late renewal of pressure on M r Gilmer has proved him inflexibly decided against undertaking it. what are we to do? the clamor is high for some appointment, we are informed too of many students who do not come because that school is not opened, and some now with us think of leaving us for the same reason. you may remember that among those...
416From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 8 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very much pestered with letters from persons enquiring what is the course of education in the University, what the expences & other particulars in long detail, and I expect you are also. I have therefore prepared the inclosed handbill, of which we must have 200. copies printed, which we may inclose by way of answer to such letters. be so good therefore as to get mr M c Kenny to print them...
417TJ & Brockenbrough: Text for handbill on University of Virginia, 8 May 1825, 8 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
University of Virginia. This institution was opened on the 7 th day of March 1825. it embraces a school 1. of antient languages. 2. Modern languages. 3. Mathematics. 4. Natural philosophy. 5. Natural history. 6. moral philosophy. 7. Anatomy and medecine. 8. Law and government, with distinct Professors to each. to be recieved into the school of Antient languages the applicant must be qualified...
418From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee, 8 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 29 has been duly recieved, and the offer of mineralogical specimens from mr Myer has been communicated to D r Emmet our Professor of Natural history. the last donation of the legislature to the University was appropriated specifically to a library and apparatus of every kind. but we apply it first to the more important articles of a library, of an astronomical, physical, &...
419Thomas Jefferson to Davies, 7 May 1825, 7 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Davies to dine at Monticello to day (Saturday) with Col o Monroe. Jagiellonian University Library, Krakow, Poland.
420From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 6 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I must pray you to send to Lynchbg 15. boxes of tin addressed to Fr. Eppes by the first boats, I shall hope to find them there the 3 d or 4 th week of this month when I expect to be there. and I also request you to procure and send to me here, by the 1 st waggon a quarter cask of the best Sicily Madeira your’s affect ly MHi .
421Deposition in Sam & Esther, persons of colour v. Henry Umberger, 2 May 1825, 2 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The deposition of Thomas Jefferson taken at his House in the County of Albemarle this second day of May in the year One thousand eight hundred and Twenty five, to be read as evidence in a suit depending in the Supreme Court of law holden for the County of Wythe wherein Esther & Sam who sue in forma pauperis are Plts and Henry Umbarger is Def t agreeable to Notice herewith annexed—The said...
422From Thomas Jefferson to Alfred W. Elwes, 2 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Benson safely delivered the little vol. of poems you were so kind as to commit to him for me. the spirit of pure patriotism which the Potomac muse breathes is worthy of high approbn. great justice is certainly done to the many worthies of our country and more than justice to one at least whose pretensions go not beyond that zeal for the rights of man which was so eminently displayed by our...
423From Thomas Jefferson to David M. Randolph, 2 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Our books arrived in January and as soon as they were opened and arranged on their shelves a Librarian was appointed to take charge of them. the compensn was fixt at first at 50. D. a year only, but the Visitors at their meeting in March raised it to 150. D. but without any other emolument, not even a lodging room. it was supposed that one of the Professors would always take it as adding a...
424Deposition in Robin, Polly and Henry, persons of colour v. Jacob King, 2 May 1825, 2 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The deposition of Thomas Jefferson taken at his House in the County of Albemarle this second day of May in the year One thousand eight hundred and Twenty five, to be read as evidence in a suit depending in the Superior Court of law holden for the County of Wythe wherein Robin, Polly & Henry who sue in former pauperis are Plts—and Jacob King is Def t agreeable to notice hereto annexed—The said...
425From Thomas Jefferson to John H. Dye, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21 st was rec d yesterday, but I must pray to be excused from entering into the subjects therein proposed to my considn. age and debility have obliged me to withdraw from political speculns . leaving them, as I chearfully do, to the genern whose concern they properly are. my last efforts towds being useful are now engaged in the establmit of an institn of much promise to our...
426From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Tornquist, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d is just now rec d that of Dec. 27 th was laid before the Visitors at their meeting in March, with other similar offers. they determined that having a compleat apparatus to buy it would be neither convenient nor advantageous to depend on occasional offers from particular individuals. that this would multiply transactions and trouble, accumulate duplicates, give them often...
427From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Campbell, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Campbell Dear Sir is too well known and too much respected here, and especially by myself, to need any apology for the address of his letter to me of Sep. 28. or to doubt my readiness to render a service of any friend of his. his good wishes are suffic t to ensure mine in favor of mr Rose yet it is an awful thing to become the adviser of another to leave his native country and friends, and...
428From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Moore Carter, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 10. came to hand in December, and was soon followed by the rec t of the handsome donn of books with which you have been so kind as to present the Univ ty of your native state. they came in good condn , well chosen, well bound and truly acceptable, for until they arrived with those purchased by mr Gilmer we had scarcely a book. I am instructed by the board of Visitors on...
429From Thomas Jefferson to Frances Dorothy Cartwright, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Before the rec t of your favor of Sep. 29. the public papers had announced the unwelcome tidings of the death of the worthy patriot Maj John Cartwright, your respected uncle. his virtues merited well the affections of his own country and were duly honored here; how could our sympathies be insensible of the peculiar afflictions of his family and near connections to whom his kind affections had...
430From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Greenhow, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 23 d is rec d and I immed ly wrote to Col o Peyton to answer the draught which should be made by yourself or any other person on him for the cost & charges of the skeletons you have been so kind as to procure for us. the proffer of your services is too kind and too valuable to us not to be accepted in our present destitute state. I have therefore to pray you to have preparns...
431From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to apply to Doct r Greenhow of N.Y. to procure for the university some anatomical preparns, and unable to conjecture the exact cost, I desired him to consign the packages to you, and to draw on you for the amount, notifying me of it at the same time. I rec d his letter yesterday stating the prime cost to be 84.D. to which there may be some addnal charges. I immed ly went to mr...
432From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests mr Brockenb rough to have the annexed paragraph inserted in the Central gazette and the Enquirer. ViU .
433Newspaper Advertisement Soliciting Donations to UVa Library, ca. 28 Apr. 1825, 28 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The University of Virginia has, at different times, recieved from public-spirited citizens, as well her own as of other states, donations of books, more or fewer in number, but all acceptable. all contributing to the instruction of the youths confided to her care, and whom she hopes to restore to their country with increased science and virtue, & qualified to succeed worthily to the future...
434From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Bowditch, 27 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Dear Sir, for the Extract of your Review from the North American. it is instructive to those who, like myself, have not been able to keep pace with the science of the day. you know how much more I should have been gratified to have heard those things delivered by yourself in a lecture to the Students of our University. believing however that you are the best judge of what most...
435From Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 25 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
10.℔ Coffee, not green . ViCMRL .
436From Thomas Jefferson to John L. Thomas, 25 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am so oppressed with writing that I put off answering your two letters in the expectn I should meet with you in my rides to the University. mr Page (exr of mr Eppes) informed me of his draught on me as soon as he made it and I immediately assured him it should be honored. this shall accdly be done with little delay. I wish to hear of the arrival of my Bedf d tob o in Richm d but will draw...
437From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Anderson, 23 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having sollicited mr James Barber to expedite as much as he could the reciept of the 50. M .D. of the claim of Virginia on the Gen l government, which was given to the University of Virginia, he informs me by a letter of the 19 th that the President of the US; without waiting for actual settlement, has sanctioned the payment, on account, of the sum given to the University, and that it is...
438From Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 23 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Fearing that there might be some obstacle at Wash n to the speedy reciept of the last donation to the Univ ty I wrote to mr Ja s Barbour stating to him the importance of hav g our library and apparatus all in place for the commencemt of our next term, Feb. 1. that Students disposed to come might be encoraged by a knolege of our full preparn with these essentials, and requested him to expedite...
439From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your letter proposing to permit the lecturing room of the Pavilion N o 1. to be used regularly for prayers and preaching on Sundays, I have to observe that some 3. or 4. years ago, an application was made to permit a sermon to be preached in one of the pavilions on a particular occasion, not now recollected. it brought the subject into consideration with the Visitors, and altho’...
440From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 20 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
having omitted to note my last renewals, I have lost sight of their dates, but I am sure I must have been in default in the observce of that duty which I trust my power of atty to you will have enabled you to supply. I now send you a set of them with blanks for dates.—you have not sent me my last quarter’s acc t —Students continue to come in almost daily; we are now something upw ds of 70....
441From Thomas Jefferson to John Henry Sherburne, 18 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not in my power to inform you of the precise time of the death of Commodore P. Jones. I cannot ascertain even the year. but that being known any file of Newspapers of the date would surely settle it. S. Harrison Smith’s paper, for example, which had a good index would probably announce his death, or any of the periodical publicns of the time. of his journal containing an account of his...
442From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 16 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Pray, Dear Sir, expedite by every means in your power the dispatch of our 50. M .D. our Agent who is to proceed to Europe for the purchase of the library, awaits only for the money. in like manner the orders for apparatus of every kind await the same thing. we wish to have all in before winter. I ask this favor of you not as belonging to your deptmt but as a Virginian and friend to the...
443From Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 16 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
As a supplement to my letter of Apr. 3. I can now inform you that I have rec d M r Cabell’s, Gen l Cocke’s, & mr Madison’s written approbn of the appmt proposed in that letter. this with my own is a majority. I shall not write to the other 3. until I know you will accept, and then only as a just respect to them and for your greater satisfn without awaiting their answers to act on those of the...
444To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have received a proposition from Mr. Perry the owner of the lands which separate the two tracts of the University which I think of so much importance to that institution as to communicate to the visiters by letter in their separate situations. The University tract of 100 acres is ¾ of a mile distant from that of the Observatory of 153 acres. The water which supplies the cisterns of the...
445University of Virginia, Circular of Estimates of UVa income & expenditures, ca. 15-16 Apr. 1825, 15 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
this estimate was made in Apr. 25 but refers to Jan. 1. 25 Estimate of Income for 1825. and Expenditures D Due from Literary board of annuity of 1823 800 Proctor’s debts to individuals 6,144 Annuity of 1825 15,000 Remitted to Italy for Capitels, bases, pavem t 3,000 Debt from library fund, advance for books E t c 6,000 Ordinary expences of the establmt
446From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 15 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d a proposition from m r Perry the owner of the lands which separate the two tracts of the Univ ty which I think of so much importce to that instn as to communicate to the visitors by letter in their separate situations. the university tract of 100. a s is ¾ of a mile distant from that of the observatory of 153. a s the water which supplies the cisterns of the Univ ty by pipes...
447From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Greenhow, 14 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In the letter of Mar. 22. with which you favored me, is the following passage, of informn with respect to Skeletons a great number are imported here from France. they are sold here for 45.D. and consequently would cost you not more than 35.D. you should have two, a male and female connected by wires, and one natural skeleton, that is the bones connected by the natural ligaments. the whole...
448From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Hewitt Key, 14 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr and mrs Key to dine at Monticello tomorrow, Friday his dinner hour is half after three. ItF : Gonnelli Collection.
449Thomas Jefferson: List of Books Donated to Univ. of Va. by Joseph Coolidge Jr., ca. 14 Apr. 1825, 14 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Donation of mr Joseph Coolidge j r of Boston. ✓ 31. Homeri Ilias Gr. Lat. 2. v. 8 vo ✓ 1 Tacitus Ernesti et Oberli 4. v. 8 vo ✓ 41. Guizot. Dict. des synony Franc. 8 vo ✓ 12. Linnæi Systema Veget
450From Thomas Jefferson to John Spear Smith, 13 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The value which mrs Smith and yourself are so kind as to place on the trifle I sent my name sake is far beyond it’s merit. if however it should, at any time, confirm him in a single virtue we shall all be richly repaid. but if our University becomes what it now promises to be, I hope it will afford him much more copious lessons of virtue, science, and sound principles of republicanism. this...