1From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 30 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume that while with us you must have become informed that we were establishing in Virginia an University on a scale of considerable respectability. we are now provided with funds to procure for the institution a competent library and Apparatus. for the former we have engaged a special agent, now on his departure for Europe, on that business. for the selection and purchase of our...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 30 th of June I took the liberty of addressing to you a letter requesting your kind aid to the University of Virginia so far as to permit yourself to be made the depository of a sum of 6300. D. or 1350. £ sterl to be called for by mr Barlow of Woolwich, in the manner and for the purposes therein stated; for which sum I inclosed you a bill of exchange; and in the same letter I mentioned...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 17 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In two former letters of June 30. and July 28. I took the liberty, on behalf of the University of Virginia of inclosing to you two bills of exchange, the one for 1350. £ sterl. cost here 6300. D. the other for 675. £ sterl. cost here 3157. D 50 c the former for the purchase of a philosophical apparatus, the latter for that of Anatomical articles, according to details in those letters. the...