1Thomas Jefferson to John Brockenbrough and Philip N. Nicholas, 14 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
In virtue of an order from the President & Directors of the Literary board , I have this day desired the Auditor to deliver to you a warrant for fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty Dollars, which be pleased to recieve and place in the bank of Virginia to the credit of the Rector & visitors of the University of Virginia , to be drawn for occasionally by orders from the Bursar of the...
2Thomas Jefferson to Louis Adrien Gruchet, 14 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th is recieved and in it, the libel of the Baltimore telegraph. the abuses of a free press cannot be separated from their wholsome uses. they carry their own remedy by the absolute contempt they excite. I have never noticed them nor otherwise answered them than by the tenor of my life. this is a mere electioneering pasquinade. the world has learned to estimate justly the...
3Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 14 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deferred acknoleging your favor of May 22. until the reciept of my books should enable me to add that information to the thanks I owe you for your kind agency in procuring them. I recieve them just now in good order. I certainly did not intend you should take half the trouble you have been so kind as to give yourself in the execution of this commission; yet I feel too sensibly it’s...