1Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
V. W. southall starts to Richmond in the morning, and, if it will accommodate, should be happy to exchange money with M r Jefferson for a draught including previous advances & any farther sum M r J. may Require. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ M r Jefferson .
2Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 19 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
With the expectation that I should meet you in this place, where I’ve been for two or three days, Jefferson placed in my hands $240; which, to be added to a sum in your possession, were to take up a note due, in a few days, in the Bank . Not meeting with you, agreeably to expectation, I’ve deposited the sum in the Bank of Virginia , subject only and payable to your order. RC ( MHi ); endorsed...
3Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 22 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A necessary duty calls me to Washington the first of December , from which I’ve some thought to extend the trip as far as Baltimore , Philadelphia & New York . Tis, therefore, I have, tho’ with Some fear that I am trespassing on your goodness, presumed to ask of you a few letters of introduction to the three latter places. I must beg, however, if it should be in the least repugnant to your...
4Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett and Valentine W. Southall, 23 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 20 th informing me that the Masonic lodges of Charlottesville , unable to make their arrangements for laying the first brick of the Central College by the time the workmen would be ready to begin, had proposed to decline the performance of that function. I arrived at home on Sunday afternoon & went to the College on Monday forenoon in order to know the...
5Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
By referance to the acts concerning roads I find, that an application to the County Court to discontinue a road must be preceded by one month’s notice in some public paper and an advertisement at the door of the courthouse. See 1 Vol. R. Code p. 423 . Jeff. tells me this has not been done. I, therefore, thought it best to delay the application, RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 6 Mar....
6Alexander Garrett and Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our respective lodges feeling, with the public, much solicitude for the erection and success of the Central College , have nominated us, with others, as committees in behalf of our respective institutions, to make the necessary arrangements for carrying into effect your very kind and polite reply to the wish expressed by some of their members, that we might be permitted, as is usual with our...
7Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
V W southall encloses M r Jefferson $100—the amount advanced is $910 , exclusive of $250 for which M r J. has already draughted. Should M r J. contemplate an abscence from Albemarle
8Alexander Garrett and Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 30 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 has been received. The abscence of each of us from town with other circumstances is the apology for this delay in our Reply: but it affords us now infinite satisfaction to be enabled to acquaint you, in behalf of our brethren, that, on second thought, it has been concluded to dispense with a small part of the ceremony and to undertake the laying of the corner-stone of the...