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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Pavilions, 7 December 1819

Notes on University of Virginia Pavilions

from central line of library						from central line of Library.
			f								f
to	Pavilion No	I.	68	whole.	68.		to	Hotel A.	68	whole	68
	Pavilion		44		112			Hotel A.	50		118
	Dormitory.	1	13.6		125.6			Dormitory	15		133
		2	13.6		139.				15		148
		3	13.6		152.6				15		163
		4	13.6		166.				15		178
	Pavilion No	II	37.		203				15		193
	Dormitory.	5	13.9		216.9				15		208
		6	13.9		230.6				15		223
		7	13.9		243.3				15		238
	Passage		6.10½		251.1½			Necessary	12		250
	Dormitory	8	13.9		264.			Dormitory	15		265
		9	13.9		278.7½				15		280
		10	13.9		292.4½				15		295
	Pavilion No	III.	44		336.4½				15		310
	Dormitory	11	13.9		350.1½				15		325
		12	14		364.1½				15		340
		13	14		378.1½				15		355
		14	14		392.1½				15		370
		15	14		406.1½			Hotel B.	34		404
		16	14		420.1½
		17	14		434.1½
	Pavilion No	IV	34		468.1½
	Dormitory	18	11		479.1½
		19	11		490.1½
		20	11		501.1½
		21	11		512.1½
		22	11		523.1½
		23	11		534.1½
		24	11		545.1½
		25	11		556.1½
		26	11		567.1½

*Dec.1 7. 19. I took the bearing accurately of the range of pavilions, & found it magnetically S. 21. W. the variation of the needle being that day 4.° E. of the true N. or to the right. it [is]2 probable that at the operation of July 18. the merid of W’s Mountn was inadvertently considd as the true [N.]

MS (ViU: TJP); entirely in TJ’s hand; lower corner torn; subjoined to TJ’s Notes on the Siting of Central College, 18 July 1817; filed with TJ’s Specifications for the University of Virginia.

The pavilions here listed as n o ii through IV were later renumbered III, V, and VII, respectively. A necessary is a privy (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ). hotel b was later renamed Hotel C. w’s mountn: Willis’s Mountain.

1. The asterisk preceding this word is keyed to the one accounted for in the first textual note at TJ’s Notes on the Siting of Central College, 18 July 1817.

2. Word faint.

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Title: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Pavilions, 7 December 1819
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 7 December 1819

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Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Pavilions, 7 December 1819,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0234. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 263–264.]