1From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A clock is wanting for the Rotunda of the University; the size and strength of it’s works must be accomodated to two data. 1. the bell weighs 400. ℔ and is to be heard . with certainty 1½ miles 2. the dial-plate is to be about 6 . feet 3. I. diameter. it is to be fixed in the tympanum of the Pediment of the Portico. The triangle of this tympanum has not been measured exactly yet, therefore we...
The frequent and violent attacks of sickness which assail me my Dear George render me a wretched correspondent as the few days of comparative health which I enjoy are attended with a degree of debility which incapacitates me from any exertion of thought or rather of sedentary occupation without reproducing disagreeable sensations in my head and eyes.— We perceive with much delight an entire...