1From Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 6 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that by the unanimous vote of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, you have been appointed Professor of the school of law in that institution. to no one I can assure you is that appointment more gratifying than to myself. and I may further say with truth, and for your satisfaction that your name was among the first which occurred to some of...
2Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It would require a longer letter than my health enables me to write, to detail to you the obstacles which have so long delayed the transmission to you of the papers of Gen l Kosciuzko . ill health on my part has had it’s share, unsuccesful efforts to withdraw the original will in the General ’s own handwriting from the court in which it was recorded, and other untoward obstacles, have never...
3Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters of Jan. 5. and Nov. 10. of the last year had informed you generally that Gen l Kosciuzko had left a considerable sum of money in the funds of the US. and had, by a will deposited in my hands, disposed of i t to a charitable purpose: & I asked the favor of your opinion in what court the will should be proved. according to that opinion, expressed in your favor of Dec. 28. I proved the...
4Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 10 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of congratulation on your entran ce into office, I introduced a question of business which I knew must go to you in the end, for the sanction of your opinion and I thought it better therefore to ask it in the beginning, as it is easier to prevent error than to cure it. the question was in what court I must prove the will of Gen l Kozciuzko to authorise the withdrawing his funds in...
5Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have first to thank you, Dear Sir, for the copy of your late work , which you have been so kind as to send me, and then to render you double congratulations 1 st on the general applause it has so justly recieved, and next on the public testimony of esteem for it’s author, manifested by your late appointment call to the Executive councils of the nation. all this I do heartily; and then...
6Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 12 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, on my return to this place, your favor of Sep. 9. with a load of other letters which have occupied me till now. late as my answer is, I can give it no value from it’s matter. altho’ my aversion to the writing table has become almost insurmountable, I would yet sit down to it to aid the magazine of mr Rice , were I possessed of any thing either on paper or in memory which could be...
7Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 12 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Oct. 23. was recieved here on the 31 st with the last sheets of your work. they found me engaged in a business which could not be postponed and have therefore been detained longer than I wished. on the subject of our antient aristocracy, I believe I have said nothing which all who knew them will not confirm, and which their reasonable descendants may not learn from every quarter. it...
8Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 8 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your 3 d parcel of sheets just as I was leaving Poplar Forest , and have read them with the usual pleasure. they relate however to the period of time exactly, during which I was absent in Europe . consequently I am without knolege of the facts they state. indeed they are mostly new history to me. on the subject of style they are not liable to the doubts I hazarded on the 1 st...
9Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 29 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I found, on my arrival t here the 2 d parcel of your sheets, which I have read with the same avidity and pleasure as the former. this proves they will experience no delay in my hands, and that I consider them as worthy every thing I can do for them. they need indeed but little, or rather I should say nothing. I have however hazarded some suggestions on a paper inclosed. when I read the former...
10Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 4 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with great delight the portion of the history of mr Henry which you have been so kind as to favor me with, and which is now returned: and I can say from my own knolege of the cotemporary characters introduced into the canvas, that you have given them quite as much lustre as themselves would have asked. the exactness too of your details has in several instances corrected the errors...