1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 10 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your cooperative and successful efforts in procuring happiness not only for the present, but future generation of this Mighty Republic are encircled with immortal honours. Your triumphal exertions in erecting the house of Mental illumination on the mountain-top will throw a light on the unborn sons of Virginia and direct and compel them to associate with the name of Jefferson every thing...
2From Thomas J. O’Flaherty to James Monroe, 3 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The Institutions which flourish under the arch of our Constitution strike the scholar with fond surprise. The liberal management held out to Literature shews its importance, and how keenly it is relished by American Freemen. In this State we see an Edifice, which when in operation, will scatter the salutary light of mind throughout “the Old Dominion,” and enable the rising sons of Virginia to...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 20 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honoured with a letter from you in the Spring of the last year relative to the University. In it you were pleased to notice my “familiarity with the languages,” in which my letter to you was written. Your answer with a few letters enveloped in an Introduction from my friend M r Roane of King William County, I subsequently sent to M r Monroe; but have not received his answer. I am...