20241From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in informing you that the Board of Visitors at their late meeting unanimously appointed you Professor of the school of Law in the University of Virginia, and that on signifying your acceptance the letter of appointment shall be immediately made out. with my sincere hopes that this mark of the esteem in which they hold you may be recieved with as much pleasure as it has...
20242From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Thompson, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is just now recieved, and I have this day instructed the Proctor of the University to remit you immediately the sum of 658. D 32 c on account of that institution which wish the 127.19 formerly remitted for my portion of what was due, makes up the whole sum of 785.51 the only motive for proposing a postponement of the duties was the supposition that Congress might more...
20243From Thomas Jefferson to George Tucker, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a M.S. copy of the new enactments passed by the Visitors of the University at their late session, and also a printed copy of those formerly past now made conformable, by corrections with the pen, withe the amendments enacted at the same session, and request that by handing them from the one to the other of the Professors they may make them known by reading them successively to the...
20244From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brockenbrough was before desired to remit to Gen l Dearborn Collector of Boston on the marble capitels arrived there Freight from Leghorn to Boston 795.30 Expenses in Boston 17.50 Insurance 72.28 885.08 [note in Brockenbrough’s hand?] : Nov 9 ’25 Voucher rec d he is now desired to remit to Jonathan Thompson, Collector of New York on the bases & pavement arrived there Duties on 31. cases. @...
20245From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the reciept of your favor of Sep. 22. I directed the Proctor of the University to have remitted to you the sum of 885. D 08 according to the statement in your letter, which I hope you have duly recieved. as a meeting of the board of Visitors was then to take place within a few days, I have delayed somewhat the returning the proper bond. the Board preferred bonding the whole for...
20246From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not a scrip of a pen on the subject of the marbles you mention as arrived for me at Philada, neither invoice, nor advice nor letter of any sort. I must therefore substitute conjecture for certainty. in Aug. 1823. an Italian stone cutter Giacomo Raggi whom mr Appleton had sent us was returning to Italy, with an intention however of coming back to us. he agreed to bring me 2. alabaster...
20247From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 13 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is so long since I ought to have written to you that I am ashamed to quote your last date. the information particularly which you were so kind as to obtain and furnish me, as to the cost of a college clock should have been answered. but finding the price you mentioned far beyond our expectation and funds, I took time to have other enquiries made. these however did not result in bringing the...
20248From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 14 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Octob.—has been duly recieved. the information which I have given you from time to time has kept you truly informed of the state of our University. it behoves me then also to mention to you a serious incident which has just taken place there; and the rather as, of the thousand versions which will be given, not one will be true. my position enables me to say what is so, but with...
20249To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
Every thing is going on smoothly at the University. The Students are attending their schools more assiduously, and looking to their Professors with more respect. The authority of the latter is visibly strengthened, as is the confidence of those who visit the place, and the effect, on the whole, has been visibly salutary. The Professors are all lecturing, the two Cantabs however somewhat in the...
20250From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 18 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Every thing is going on smoothly at the University. the Students are attending their schools more assiduously, and looking to their Professors with more respect. the authority of the latter is visibly strengthened, as is the confidence of those who visit the place, and the effect, on the whole, has been visibly salutary. the Professors are all lecturing, the two Cantabs however somewhat in the...
20251From Thomas Jefferson to William Maclure, 19 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Sep. 24. was recieved in due time and with great thankfulness on behalf of our University for the kind offer of mineral and geological articles. we are young, and have as yet little or nothing in either of these branches of science. and we will request you so far to add to the proffered favor as to chuse for us what you think would be best for us of your collection and of what...
20252From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 19 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Raggi called on me yesterday and explained to me the contents of the two boxes of marble arrived at Philadelphia to my address from mr Appleton. the one containing a truncated column 32. I. high, 16 I. diam the other contains the base of the column. I have recieved no bill of lading from mr Appleton, nor other invoice but his general account which therefore I now inclose you. it is the upper...
20253From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Raggi called on me yesterday while at dinner with company whom I could not leave to open the budget of Appleton’s letters. he promised to come again tomorrow. Appleton informed me expressly that Raggi had not repaid our 50.D. there, and of course that we must look to them here. he claims them on the ground that the price at which he contracted for the bases was too small. but that is nothing...
20254From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas H. Lewis, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now recieved your letter of Sep. 22 on the subject of appointing Commissioners in my case with the Rivanna company. I have long since put all my business into the hands of my grandson Th: J. Randolph, and must the more especially refer this to him, being unable to leave the house myself, nor likely to be otherwise soon if ever I will immediately communicate your letter to him and...
20255From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from N. H. Lewis as Secretary of the Rivanna company, as also a copy of the interlocutory decree of Chancellor Brown for the appointment of Commissioners, which is the object of this letter. I have informed mr Lewis that I leave all further proceedings in this matter to you, and shall confirm whatever you do in it. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
20256From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 22 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Eighty two years old, my memory gone, my mind close following it 5. months confined to the house by a painful complaint, which, permitting my neither to walk nor to sit, obliges me to be constantly reclined, and to write in that posture, when I write at all, you, as my friend would not propose or permit me to take up such a case as is the subject of mr Cau st en’s letter, commencing with the...
20257From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very anxious to see you, and the sooner the more I shall be gratified. the dissensions at the University, depend, for a thorough healing on a delicate conduct of it’s friends at this time. a party schism among the Professors is the thing to be feared. my health is subject but to small changes. paroxysms of pain succeeded by intervals of ease, more or less short. I am far from foreseeing...
20258From Thomas Jefferson to George W. Lewis, 25 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know whether the Professor to whom Antient and Modern history are assigned in the University, have yet decided on the course of historical reading which they will recommend to their schools. if they have, I wish this letter to be considered as not written; as their course, the result of mature consideration, will be preferable to any thing I could recommend. under this uncertainty,...
20259From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Massie, 26 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I will be glad to take of you the present year about 9 or 100. gall s of cyder, which I hope you will chuse for me of your very best. p. be pleased to accept my best wishes and respects MHi .
20260From Thomas Jefferson to Achille Murot, 26 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Murot and acknoleging the reciept of his favor of Sep: 29. informs him that he has never heard of any English translation of the Works of Filangieri. he prays him to accept his respectful salutations and best wishes CSmH .
20261From Thomas Jefferson to James Westwood Wallace, 26 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My daughter puts into my hands a letter from you which I answer with pleasure. I must first correct your misrecollections of the name of the person appointed Collector of the stamp-duties in this state. it was not Norton , but Col o George Mercer, brother of our quondam Judge Mercer. I rec d a lre of Sep. 9. from John Vaughan, of the A.P.S. informing me that R. H. Lee, gr. son, of the...
20262From Thomas Jefferson to John Pickering, 27 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your favor of the 10 th inst. and the two pamphlets accompanying it on the subject of Greek grammars. I confess I should have been of an opinion very different from that which excluded it from a place in the Review. the subject is interesting, is learnedly treated, and I think worth pursuing until a general accord shall be produced. for I concur with you in believing...
20263From Thomas Jefferson to Va. Postmaster at Lynchburg, 29 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Postmaster at Lynchburg, and having requested him in a note of yesterday to send by mail to this place a letter which he supposes to be lying in that office for him, he has now to pray he will send it by the bearer, being an earlier opportunity than he had expected would occur: & tenders him his salutations. Privately owned.
20264From Thomas Jefferson to James Mease, 30 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 8. enquiring after the house and room in which the Declaration of independance was written has excited my curiosity to know whether my recollections were such as to enable you to find out the house. a line on the subject will oblige D r Sir DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
20265From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 30 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The kind good wishes you have so often manifested for the success of our University has encoraged me to levy on you as a contribution the little services we may have occasion to ask in Philadelphia, which I am sure you will consider rather as occasions of exercising your benevolence than as burthens. I had engaged a most excellent Brewer to furnish our boarding houses at the University, and...
20266From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 31 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sure you have found, ere this that the being in a position to bestow offices, is not a very pleasant circumstance and you had before experience enough that the sollicitation of them is not more so. I have therefore made it a general rule not to trouble the government with such sollicitations. yet there are now and then cases which oblige one to disregard rule. I dare say you must well...
20267From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thought I had mentioned to you some time ago that to prevent people’s passing through the grounds on the North side of the Rotunda, the gate at Dinsmore’s corner should be taken away and a fence run from there leaving a lane to the gate at Hotel B so as to leave an entrance into the gate at East street but not to pass on further Gen l Cocke mentioned to me yesterday that you proposed to run...
20268From Thomas Jefferson to Bradfoote Davidson, 1 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You have laid me under the greatest obligation, by your kind forbearance on the note of my grandson, endorsed by me. age and infirmities have for some time disabled me from business and obliged me to turn over every thing of the kind to my grandson Th: J. Randolph in whom I have unlimited confidence. I had before recieved notice from the bank and sent it directly to my grandson, to whom I had...
20269From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return the deeds and plats of the University lands recieved from you at different times, and also an inclusive plat of the whole 7. parcels bought at different times laid down as exactly as the lines of the several separate ones would admit. I mentioned to you not long since an error which had crept into our practice which it is necessary to correct. it arose thus. the law establishing...
20270From Thomas Jefferson to William Hilliard, 4 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct 7. has been some time in hand, and the books are now recieved. ill health has prevented my answering it sooner, being still confined mostly to the house I shall on this as on every other occasion make free observations, because they will enable you the better to enter into our views. but I make them under the disadvantage of not having seen the books, and judging from the...