6641To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Eppes, 25 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have written to you sooner, my D r Grandfather, and given all the particulars of our late accidint, had I not supposed them already detailed by Elizabeth, who writes every mail to some one of your family. it occurred during the last snow, which by its depth induced me to burn the chimnies become very foul from long neglect. the wind it seems, had blown the snow off in several places,...
6642To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Stevenson, 25 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the deep interest you take, in every thing connected with the University, I hasten to inform you of the passage of the Bill, through the H. of Representatives, providing for the payment of about one hundred thousand dollars , of our claim upon the General Governm t . This debt has been beneficently dedicated by our Legislature, to the purposes of learning, and fifty thousand dollars of...
6643From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Faculty, 26 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The weather retaining Th: Jefferson at home, has given him time to sketch hastily some rules for the use of the library. these he requests the Professors to read and consider, handing them from the one to the other, and to propose such amendmts as may occur to them as expedient. his attendance at the Univ ty as soon as the weather will permit, will give them an oppty of communicating their...
6644To Thomas Jefferson from John Quincy Adams, 27 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I readily comply with the request of M r Owen of Lanark, in taking the Liberty of introducing him to your acquaintance—His plans for the improvement of the condition of Man, are already known to you generally, and he is desirous of explaining them more particularly to one so favourably disposed to their object, and so qualified to appretiate justly the adaptation to it of his means. DLC :...
6645To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 27 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already had the pleasure of acknowleging & thanking you for your gratifying favor of the 8 th ult o a most clear & instructive exhibition of a subject with which I was of course little acquainted. My letter was of the 19 th of Jan y the last I have written except one of the 8 th inst.— I allow myself to give you the present trouble only on account of the occasion, which induces me to...
6646From Thomas Jefferson to Capt. Wormeley, 27 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the pleasure to forward to Cap t Wormeley a letter he lately recieved inclosed in one addressed to himself from England. he hopes it will get safe to hand and prays him to accept his respectful salutations and assurances of esteem. ViU .
6647To Thomas Jefferson from James Breckenridge, 28 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your fav. of the 22 d ins t is this moment rec d & I hasten to say in reply that from it I derive the first information of the intended meeting of the Visitors on the 4 th march & that the state of the roads will render it wholly out of my power to attend. Indeed the condition of the roads is such that I doubt whether the mail will reach Charlottesville before that day, notwithstanding it will...
6648Thomas Jefferson: Principles of government for UVa, Feb. 1825, February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas it is the duty of this board to the government under which we live, and especially to that of which this University is the immediate creation to pay especial attention to the principles of govmt which shall be inculcated therein, and to provide that none shall be inculcated which are incompatible with those on which the constitutions of this state and of the U.S. were genuinely based...
6649To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Arrell Browne, 1 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to send you enclosed a copy of the First Annual Report of the proceedings of “the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts,” to which are prefixed the Charter, Constitution, and Bye laws of the Institute, with a list of the members and officers for 1824 and 1825 and the standing committees of the present year. I make no doubt but...
6650To Thomas Jefferson from Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with much pleasure I have now to inform you, that the Bill providing for the payment of the claim of Virginia, has at length passed the Senate, and ’ere this I presume has received the signature of the President; so that now it may be consider’d as a law— May I take this occasion to ask of you Sir, whether any professor of Ethics &c. has yet been appointed for the University?—There is a...