1From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 6 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Rives to dine at Monticello to-day with Gen l LaFayette DLC : Papers of William Cabell Rives.
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 30 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of this day to the P.M. Gen l I have sollicited his establishing a deposit of letters for the University at that place, making the Proctor mr A. S. Brockenbrough Post master. besides stating to him the facts and motives of the measure I have taken the liberty of referring him to you for them, as well acquainted with them. writing is too irksome to me to copy the letter; and, not...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 28 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 13 th I expressed to you my great pleasure in the hope you were about taking up and improving the plan of the primary schools. in this I was sincere, being equally impressed with their importance as with that of the University. a letter however which I have just recieved from mr Cabell, explaining the present state of things, converts me to his opinion as to the question of...
4From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 22 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
you mentioned in your last favor that until the term of payment of our bond to the Collectors should be approaching. it would be better to let that subject lie, to come on in it’s proper turn. the bond becomes due in the course of the ensuing month of May, the particular day I do not recollect, but it is after the middle of the month. and I believe I may say for one & all of us that it would...
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 13 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am rejoiced to see you have taken up the subject of Primary schools. I consider them equally interesting, perhaps more so than the University. it is impossible the legislature can consent longer to throw away the public money on so desperate a plan as the present. I recieved yesterday from Kentucky the most able report on that subject which we have ever seen. I inclose it to you in the hope...
6From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 29 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I was just about acknoleging your favor of the 19 th when I recieved information from mr Cabell that you were absent on a visit to your family; and as the question you proposed to me was of some urgency, I have answered it to him. I borrow the pen of a grandaughter at the same time to send you a copy of that letter which I must pray you to accept as an answer to yours particularly. this hope I...
7From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 3 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the enquiries in your favor of Nov. 30. I have to say that no other application to Congress is proposed but that explained in my letter to you, thro’ our delegates in both houses, with respect to the 305. D 68 paid on the former importation, I did not mean to ask a refunding of it directly. but I thought, that if, as I expected, the duties should be remitted as well on what was...
8From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The approach of the semiannual meeting of the Visitors of the University renders it interesting to learn the probable fate of our application to Congress on the subject of the duties. and the more so, as we gave our bonds personally for the amount, on the presumption that before they should become due Congress would have had time to decide the question. I am well aware how uncontrolable the...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 25 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A case occurs of considerable pecuniary interest to the University on which an application to Congress for relief becomes necessary, and I am instructed by the board of Visitors to sollicit the attention to it of our Senators and Representatives, to whom of your own House I request your communication of this letter. We are called on at the ports of Boston and New York for the sum of 2715 D .47...
10Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 28 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely join in the general joy on the passage of the University bill , and by such majorities as bespeak a friendly patronage hereafter. in a letter of this date to mr Cabell I have requested him to send me a copy of the bill that the visitors may meet and do at once what the law permits them to do, as the season for engagements is rapidly passing off. but we shall fall miserably short in...