1Thomas P. Jones to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Although the writer of this address is not personally known to you, he persuades himself that the warm interest which you are known to take in the affairs of the University of Virginia , will plead his excuse for troubling you on the present occasion. When my friend Judge Cooper passed through this place on his way to Columbia , he mentioned the University as likely to afford at some future...
2Thomas Jefferson to Thomas P. Jones, 13 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5 th is recieved. the act of our legislature to which it alludes has by no means the effect of hastening the open g of our University . it authorises it only the running to run further in debt for the completion of the buildings by another loan, which as well as a former one is to be repd still out of the annuity formerly given to the