1Call for Meeting of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 30 January–13 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We the subscribers, visitors of the University of Virginia being of opinion that it will be to the interest of that institution to have an occasional meeting of the visitors , by special call, on the 1 st day of April next , do therefore appoint that day for such meeting, and request the attendance of the sd Visitors accordingly; personal notice being to be given to them respectively one week...
2From James Madison to Peter Stephen Chazotte, 30 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have recd & thank you for your little tract on the culture of vines Olives &c. Its practical views of the several articles derived from long personal experience, with the apparent aptitude for them of soils & climates in a certain portion of the U. States justly claim the attention of those particularly living within its limits. Experiments for introducing these valuable productions are...
3To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr. Cabell so fully explains it’s object, and the grounds on which your signature to the paper is proposed if approved, that I will spare my stiffening & aching wrist the pain of adding more than the assurance of my constant & affectte. friendship. We the subscribers, visitors of the University of Virginia being of opinion that it will be to the interest of that...
4Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recollect that at the meeting of the Visitors of the University on the 4 th of Oct. last , mr Johnson being disabled by sickness to attend and having been prevented at the April meeting by bad weather we were we were apprehensive his commission might be vacated by a failure to act for one the space of one year , and I was requested to apply to the Governor for a renewal of the...
5Thomas Jefferson to Emile de Vendel, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. begs leave to inform m r M. de Vendel in answer to his lre of the 5 th that the University of this state is as yet little more than in embryo, and that the time of it’s opening is distant and uncertain & he prays him to recieve his respectful salutns. FC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 219:39059); on verso of de Vendel to TJ, 5 Jan. 1821
6Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr Cabell so fully explains it’s object, and the grounds on which your signature to the paper is proposed if approved, that I will spare my stiffening & aching wrist the pain of adding more than the assurance of my constant & affect te friendship. RC ( DNT , on deposit ViU: TJP ); at foot of text in William B. Sprague ’s hand: “To James Madison ,” with Sprague ’s...
7George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
While I have the honor of transmitting you the last volume of my translation, I avail myself of that indulgence which you have already so largely extended towards me, to lay before you a criticism of the venerable John Jay : and though somewhat lengthy, in justice to that estimable man, I beg leave to do it in his own words. “Having as yet received and read only the first volume of the...
8Thomas Jefferson to Thomas B. Parker, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to you for your favor of the 16 th and for information of the two amendments to your constitution therein noticed, and on which you ask my opinion. in a former letter to you I expressed my entire retirement from every thing political, and my unwillingness to commit myself to controversy or offence, even by expressing opinions: and on the same grounds I must request to be excused...
9John W. Taylor to Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
There has been established in Union College , Schenectady, N.Y. an Α of the Φ.Β.Κ. Society — Chancellor Kent is now its President & I am one of its members—At the annual meeting last July it was greatly desired to have more knowledge of the history of the society than was possessed by any of the attending members—The honor of having introduced it into the United States from England was...