Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 December 1821
To Thomas Mann Randolph
Monticello Dec. 4. 21.
Dear Sir
I now inclose you the annual report of the Visitors of the University to the Literary board with it’s documents, to be laid before the Legislature. we have had two copies prepared, one for each house, of the ground plan of the establishment. but [a]s1 these are in a box, not proper for the mail, & the girls expect to set out for Richmond on Saturday, I will send the box by them, and you will recieve it by the time your copies of the report and other documents, can be prepared for the two houses. can you give me any idea when the Literary board will be able to furnish us the remaining 30,900.D. you will see by the report that our debts are upwards of 50,000 D. a larger sum than our workmen can lie out of [wi]thout great inconvenience. affectionately & respectfully
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of George Watterston to TJ, 4 Aug. 1820; mutilated at seal, with one number partially rewritten by TJ; at head of text: “private”; at foot of text: “Govr Randolph”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure: University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 30 Nov. 1821, and enclosures.
Randolph forwarded the enclosed annual report and its supporting documents to Linn Banks, the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, in an evidently misdated letter of 3 Dec. 1821, which Banks presented to the legislature with its enclosures on 13 Dec. 1821 (printed in , 2, and in [1821–22 sess.], 37).
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Index Entries
- Banks, Linn; as speaker of Va. House of Delegates search
- Literary Fund; and loans for University of Virginia search
- Literary Fund; University of Virginia Board of Visitors reports to search
- Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); and University of Virginia search
- Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); children of search
- Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); letters to search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; annual reports of search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; ground plan of search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; wages for workmen search
- Virginia, University of; Establishment; and General Assembly search