1From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 30 th of June I took the liberty of addressing to you a letter requesting your kind aid to the University of Virginia so far as to permit yourself to be made the depository of a sum of 6300. D. or 1350. £ sterl to be called for by mr Barlow of Woolwich, in the manner and for the purposes therein stated; for which sum I inclosed you a bill of exchange; and in the same letter I mentioned...