31Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After the passage by our legislature of the act for establishing their University at the Central College , several incidents of expectation suspended my asking a meeting of our visitors , which might enable me to write to you. one of these was the hope that the legislature would make a further donation to enable us to erect our buildings, so that we might be ready soon to open our general...
32Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 2 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 29 th ult. (the day appointed) we had a full meeting of the Visitors of the University . it consisted of 4. of the former members of the Central College , & 3. others. with this new composition of our board , some changes in our former views arose. the former board had determined to divert the funds of the institution as little as possible, for the present, from the object of providing...
33Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 9 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Leschot of Charlottesville going on to Philadelphia , we charge him with a sum of money, sufficient as we suppose to pay for the 5 stoves. should we undercalculate the amount the dealer in these articles will surely trust us for what it may be deficient on my assurance that it shall be remitted as soon as k nown. he must put them, in proper condition, on board some vessel bound to Richmond...
34Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 11 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 21 . is recieved, and I have exhibited the different designs for our seal to such friends as had taste for such things. we all preferred the attitude of Minervas Minerva in one of mr Otis ’s designs as being more beautiful, but not the shield & spear. the emblems of another of his figures, the olive branch & cornucopiæ, peace & plenty, are more conformable to the idea...
35Thomas Jefferson and John H. Cocke to Thomas Cooper, 15 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
By instructions from the board of Visitors of the University of Virginia we make to you the following communications. At our first meeting, in March last, the board determined that three buildings should be undertaken in the present year, which, with the two already on hand might enable them to open the University partially by the first 1 st of April next ; & with this expectation they fixed...
36Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 19 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Oct. 25. was recieved here on the 4 th inst. my colle a gue of superintendance lives but 30. miles from me: but it is across the country, & by zig-zag cross posts which have retarded the reciept of his answer till yesterday. your letter was communicated to him and he concurs with me in accepting all it’s proposition which you may therefore consider as established, as we do your...
37Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 8 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 10. came to my hands on the 27 th and expecting a consultation with 2. of my colleagues I postponed answering until that should have taken place. Your pavilion is finished except plaistering and painting. the former will require all this month, from the variableness of the season. the house joiner asks a fortnight after removal of the rubbish of the plaisterer to hang his...
38Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 13 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1 st came to hand the last night. 4 days before that, to wit on the 8 th I had addressed one to you; in which however I had committed an error which I must correct in the first place. it was in naming 1500 instead of 750.D. this lapse of memory occurred to me after despatching mine. on turning to yours of Oct. 25. 19. I found that the proposition made in that and acceded to...
39Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 17 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Coffee , an English gentleman of eminence in the arts of sculpture and painting. he has been for some time an inmate with us at Monticello , having been engaged in making the busts in plaister of myself and all the grown members of our family. he has done the same at mr Madison ’s and some other families of my neighborhood, and much in Richmond and to very general...
40Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 24 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 13 th inst. I gave to mr Coffee a letter of introduction to you . a few days after his departure the inclosed came to my hands, with which I can do nothing better than give it the protection of your cover as he will probably be with you when it gets to your hand. affectionately yours PoC ( ViU: TJP ); on portion of a reused address cover to TJ, the other half of which was reused for PoC...
41Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 8 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 1. reached me on the 12 th and I answered it on the 13 th of that month; since which yours of the 21 st has come to hand. the opinion I gave on the subject of D r Rice ’s publication was that of my first impressions, and without having had time to enquire of others who go mo re into the world, and know better what is passing in it. I have since exte
42Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 4 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I was about addressing a letter to you at Columbia , when I recieved information by D r Caldwell that he had left you in Philadelphia . I learnt with great pleasure by your’s of May 3 . that our friends of S. Carolina had had the wisdom so readily to avail themselves of your disengagement with us. yet I could not, & cannot renounce the hope that it is not to be final. I had felt no concern at...
43Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 14 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 24 th ult. was recieved in due time and I shall rejoice indeed if mr Elliot and mr Nulty are joined to you in the institution at Columbia , which now becomes of immediate interest to me. mr Stack has given notice to his first class that he shall dismiss them on the 10 th
44Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 27 August 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 21. and am glad to learn that you will return to Columbia by land; in which case I hope you will take this in your way, and to prevent disappointment I must state to you my movements. Sep. 6. I shall set out to Poplar Forest . 24. I shall be at home.
45Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 6 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr John Wayles Baker son of the Treasurer of this state, and a connection of mine whom, in a former letter , I mentioned to you with my grandson Francis Eppes , presuming they would go together to the College of Columbia . you will find him a youth of excellent dispositions and orderly conduct, and well worthy of any patronage and good offices you may be so kind as...
46From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 6 April 1821 (Madison Papers)
I recd. some days ago your letter of Mar. 12. recommending Mr. L. Vanuxem for the Chemical Chair in our University, which we can no longer hope to fill as we had wished. He could not certainly be presented under better auspices; but it is not yet known who may be brought into comparison with him, and it is ascertained moreover that the University cannot be opened for a year or two; and must be...
47Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 7 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of Mar. 12. was recieved on the 22. but as our Visitors were to meet within a few days, I postponed writing to you until they had determined on the operations of the campaign. our legislature have authorised us to borrow another 60. M .D. and it is confidently understood that if we can accomplish our buildings with that sum, they will spunge the debt, and place us in a condition to...
48Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper and John Wayles Eppes, 16 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The shortness of the time now left to Francis for the pursuit of Academical studies, calls for extreme parcimony in the employment of the portion of it which still remains to him: and I am rendered more anxious for the economy of this remnant by information recieved from him, of which I was not before apprised. it seems there is a distinction in the College of Columbia between what are called...
49Thomas Jefferson to Hutchins G. Burton, Thomas Cooper, and Samuel Brown, 28 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The government of the U.S. at a very early period, when establishing it’s tariff on foreign importations, were very much guided in their selection of objects, by a desire to encourage manufactures within ourselves. Among other articles then selected were books, on the importation of which a duty of 15. per cent was imposed, which, by ordinary custom-house charges, amount to about 18 per cent,...
50Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 14. came to hand on the 3 d inst. with the Address to the Medical board, which I read with the pleasure I recieve from every exhortation for the advancement of science. the other printed paper gave me deep concern. the first obstacle to science in this country is that the means of promoting it are at the sole disposal of those who do not know it’s value. but a second, a...
51From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 2 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 18. came to hand yesterday. the atmosphere of our country is unquestionably charged with a threatening cloud of fanaticism, lighter in some parts, denser in others, but too heavy in all. I had no idea however that in Pensylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it could have arisen to the height you describe. this must be owing to the growth of...
52From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 5 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have received the “Report” on the state of the South Carolina College, covered by your favor of December 21. I have read it with very sincere pleasure as the harbinger of days happy for yourself, as well as prosperous for the Institution. You are not, I perceive, without an adversary of the same family which raised its cries against you elsewhere. The triumphs of education under your...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 12 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of the laws of your College, from which I am sure we shall recieve good aid whenever we proceed to form those for our institn if ever that day is to come. our last legislre indeed has had better disposns than the preceding one. they agreed to lend us another 60.M.D. but on interest also. this will compleat our buildings. but then our annuity of 15. M . D will...
54From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to learn by your letter of the 6 th that the genus irritabile vatum revive their persecutions against you in a state on whose liberal opinions I had believed that fanaticism had no hold. I still hope you will be safe under the wing of the legislature which has given such eminent proofs of their sense of your value to them. the question you ask with respect to this place is one which...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 11 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly rec d your favor of the 23 d Ult. as also the 2 pamphlets you were so kind as to send me. that on the tariff I observed was soon reprinted in Ritchie’s Enquirer: I was only sorry he did not postpone it to the meeting of Congress when it would have got into the hands of all the members and could not fail to have great effect, perhaps a decisive one. it is really an extraordinary...
56From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 23 March 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the little pamphlet on the Tariff before Congress which you were so good as to send me. I had previously read its contents in the Newspapers; but they are well worth possessing in the other form you have given them. I have always concurred in the general principle that the industrious pursuits of individuals ought to be left to individuals, as most capable of chusing & managing...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, a day or two ago, a small pamphlet on Materialism without any indication from what quarter it came. but I knew there was but one person in the United States capable of writing it and therefore am at no loss to whom to address my thanks for it and assurances of high esteem and respect. ScU .
58From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 4 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very long since I have written to you. now within a few days of fourscore and two, with a weakened body and waning mind, writing is become slow and unpleasant. but another reason has been that I had nothing to write about which could interest you, except our University, in which you have kindly taken an interest; and the constant hope of seeing that get shortly under way, and furnish...
59From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 26 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
The two copies of your Lectures on Political Economy forwarded with your letter Novr. 15. were duly recd. That for Mr. Eppes was delivered to Mr. Trist of the Monticello family who said he could send it on forthwith by a safe conveyance. For the other addressed to myself, I offer my thanks. Before I had time to look into the volume, I had an opportunity of handing it over to Professor Tucker,...
60From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 23 March 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. is just recd & with it a copy of the Printed Circular on the same subject. I forward both to the Faculty of our University who are prohibited by one of its Statutes “from receiving into it any person who has been a Student at any other incorporated Seminary, but on producing a Certificate therefrom, or other satisfactory evidence, with respect to his general good...