Louis H. Girardin to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1819
From Louis H. Girardin
Staunton, octr 19th, 1819
Dear and respected Sir,
You have rendered to my friend an essential Service by assigning to the business concerning which he requested me to consult You, its real shape and dimensions.
As he is very old, and has a wife, and several children, besides the Son to whom I alluded, he is cautious, irresolute, and slow in his motions; so that I fear he will be anticipated even in the English branch of the business, which, I think, would suit him very well; but I feel the same delicacy as Yourself in giving advice on such a subject; nor would I have troubled You further respecting it, were it not to gratify my friend, in conveying his thanks to You.
The odium theologicum is already laying in wait for Judge Cooper. I never read his Memoirs of Dr Priestley; but I have read “A statement of certain facts, in relation to Professor Leslie,” from the pen of Dugald Stewart, and augur something similar. Leslie triumphed, and is now, I believe, the successor of Playfair. That was in Edinburgh, and we are in Virginia; Quod lætum, faustumque Sit &c!
L. H. Girardin
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 23 Oct. 1819 and so recorded in SJL.
my friend: Bartholomew Fuller. odium theologicum: “hatred of the kind which proverbially characterizes theological disputes” (). quod lætum, faustumque sit: “may it be happy and prosperous.”
Index Entries
- A Short Statement of some important facts, relative to the late election of a Mathematical Professor in the University of Edinburgh (D. Stewart) search
- Charlottesville, Va.; bookstore proposed for search
- clergy; influence of in colleges search
- Cooper, Thomas; and J. Priestley’s memoirs search
- Cooper, Thomas; religious beliefs of criticized search
- Cooper, Thomas; University of Virginia professorship proposed for search
- Fuller, Bartholomew; and proposed Charlottesville bookstore search
- Girardin, Louis Hue; letters from search
- Girardin, Louis Hue; recommends B. Fuller search
- Leslie, Sir John; defended inA Short Statement of some important facts, relative to the late election of a Mathematical Professor in the University of Edinburgh (D. Stewart) search
- Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the year 1795, written by himself (J. Priestley) search
- Playfair, John; as professor search
- Priestley, Joseph; Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the year 1795, written by himself search
- religion; and University of Virginia search
- Stewart, Dugald; A Short Statement of some important facts, relative to the late election of a Mathematical Professor in the University of Edinburgh search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; and faculty recruitment search
- Virginia, University of; Books and Library; bookstore proposed for search
- Virginia, University of; Faculty and Curriculum; T. Cooper as proposed professor search