1Henry E. Watkins to Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
You were good enough to say, when I had the pleasure of seeing you in Stanton , that you would send me some of the seed of the Succory, if I would remind you of it after your return home.—It is therefore; that I now take the liberty of requesting that you would foward me a parcel of the seed of this plant; And I do this with the less reluctance, from a confidence that you think highly of its...
2Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commissioners, 4 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners for the University of Virginia having met, as by law required at the tavern in Rockfish gap on the blue ridge , on the 1 st day of August of this present year 1818 , and having formed a board, proceeded on that day to the discharge of the duties assigned to them by the act of the legislature intituled an “act appropriating part of the revenue of the literary fund and for...