1From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 30 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
By your letter of the 21 st to Col o T M Randolph I learnt with sincere regret that you were still confined by your illness. I am quite impatient to see you here. we hear nothing yet of the arrival of our Professors, and not knowing at what port they will arrive, I am unable to apply to the Government for instructions to the Collector of the port not to require duty on their books. you said in...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 6 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ our institution has been successful in the main, yet in some of it’s details fortune has thwarted our views very sensibly. had your letter of May 28. been recieved one day sooner, all our chairs would have been now filled according to our first wishes. on the 30 th of May I recieved a 5 th vote in favor of Judge Dade, and on the 31 st I conveyed to him the offer of our Law-chair. the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 21 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The pleasure which I recieved from the information of your letters of the 12 th & 13 th announcing your arrival in N. York was much abated by the state of health in which they represented you to be. fevers are rarely of long continuance, and I hope yours will not be so. you do not mention at what port our Professors will arrive. I am in hopes it will be at Richmond, and I this day write to Col...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 22 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday in answer to yours of the 12 th and 13 th and to-day I recieve your letter of Sep. 15. from London which gives me many particulars, all acceptable except one: that where you speak of having declined your appointment here. we have never so considered anything recieved from you, and hope you will not think of it. it would be, I assure you, a severe affliction to us;...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 4 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 28 th ult. and I this day write to mr Anderson, Comptroller, for instructions to the Collector to exempt the books of the Professors from duty; and I inclose to mr Thomson the Collector of New York the Comptroller’s letter to me promising to give him such instructions. this will prevent embarrasment should they arrive before the instructions get to hand....
6From 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...
7From 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...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 6 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The board of Visitors met the day before yesterday and I laid before them your letters, your report and documents and I have the pleasure to assure you that the manner in which you have executed your mission has given them the most perfect & unqualified satisfaction and they are especially pleased with your selection of Professors so far as they see of them as yet . I now return you the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been anxious to visit you and think I could do it; but D r Dunglison protests against it. I am at this time tolerably easy, but small things make great changes at times. I can only in this way then ask you how you do? and not requiring an answer from yourself but from such member of the family as is well enough. we have had a fine January, but may expect a better February. that month...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You have made me a magnificent present in the newly found work of Cicero; and the more precious, as the like is not to be had in the US. the partial terms in which it is conveyed, I duly ascribe to the friendship from which they flow. to the extended views into futurity which these present I have no pretensions. If the rancourous vituperations of enemies, made so, but bitterly so, by the...