Having forgotten to order Georges bed to be removed into my dressing room I now write to ask you to tell Antoine to have it prepared and all his paraphernalia placed within his reach—He is much better to day after having had a very bad night and a great encrease of fever in consequence of too great excitement during the day which the Doctor says must be carefully avoided for some time to come...
2From Arthur S. Brockenbrough to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 7 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to lay before you my contract with M r W m J Coffee for Composition & Leaden ornaments for the buildings, I do this because M r Coffee is dissatisfied and complains heavily of his bargain, and I am not willing to take upon myself the responsibility of advancing more than the contract calls for—he has sent on an acct t amounting to $487. 46 —the cost agreeable to my estimate on the...
A meeting of the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia was held at the University on 7th: April 1823, at which were present Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, George Loyall and Joseph C. Cabell. It was resolved that the Loan of sixty thousand dollars which the President and Directors of the Literary Fund were authorized by an Act of the last General Assembly to make to...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 7 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that Las Cases’s book respecting Bonaparte in French must by this time have come to Philade I will ask the favor of you to send me a copy, and if of more than 1. vol. to let them come by successive mails, with a note of the price which shall be promptly remitted. I salute you with esteem and respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
5Meeting Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 7 Apr. 1823, 7 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A meeting of the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia was held at the University on 7 th April 1823, at which were present Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, George Loyall and Joseph C. Cabell. It was resolved that the Loan of sixty thousand dollars which the President and Directors of the Literary Fund were authorized by an Act of the last General Assembly to make to...