481From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Greenhow, 8 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In the many interesting conversns I had with you while we had the pleasure of your company at Monticello you mentioned that we could have from Italy the finest Anatomical preparations, castings E t c and for the cheapest prices of any part of the world. our University begins it’s operns this day, and our school of Anatomy and Medicine is as yet unprovided with it’s proper subjects and...
482Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 31 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
By the stage which will leave this 4. days hence, I shall send you under the care of mr Carr a box and a bundle containing the following books. Scientific dialogues. 6. vols to be bound in 3. & a little reduced in size Euripide de Prevost . 4. v. 12 mo Dizzionario del Cormon . Fr. Ital. 8 vo Dictionnaire de Cormon . Ital. Fr. 8
483From Thomas Jefferson to R.H. Gardiner, 10 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the Laws of the Gardiner Museum which you have been so kind as to send me. the experiment is interesting, and a knolege of it’s success desirable. we propose a small attempt only at trusting the Students with self-govmt; but we have not yet entered on it. our youths have some objns to it, which I think we shall remove, I know it has succeeded well on the continent...
484From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recieve from N. York for the University a box of 250. engravings of it’s plan. the object is to sell in Richmond as many as will sell readily, and to forward the remainder to us. their price is 50. cents to be credited to the Proctor of the University. perhaps besides placing some of them where you think they will be seen and sold readily, it might be worth while to employ a person...
485Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot promise that even this shall be the last trouble I shall give you on the subject of our Central college ; for indeed I have nobody else to appeal to. we have agreed to give to our Carpenters & housejoiners the prices stated in the Philadelphia Builder’s price book, with such a percent on them as the is habitually allowed there for the advance of prices since the date of that book. we...
486Thomas Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 31 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d is recieved. the acquaintance I had the pleasure of forming with mr Vanuxem while he favored me with a visit gave me a very high sense of his merit and qualifications. in addition to this your recommendations and those of D r Cooper place him on very high ground but I fear we are as yet far from the time at which we may turn our attention to the choice of Professors. our...
487Thomas Jefferson to Julius B. Dandridge, 17 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 17 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “I will write as soon as able.” Letter not found.]
488Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Carstairs, 16 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Availing myself of the circumstance of our former acquaintance, I took the liberty on the 1 st of November of requesting your information on the subject of Philadelphia prices for builders, for our government in a College we are building here : and M r Carey in a letter since that informed me you had been so kind as to call on him, and to recieve for me a copy of the Philadelphia Builder’s...
489Thomas Jefferson to Henry H. Sherman, 17 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 3 d is just now at hand. I recieved some weeks ago from mr Mayo the copy of Seybert ’s Statistical tables to which your letter relates. it is indeed bound in a very superior style, and such as I have not seen before; and I am safe in saying that the binder is equal to any one of his profession here or in Europe . I was much indebted to mr Mayo for this specimen of the art, and...
490Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters of Jan. 5. and Nov. 10. of the last year had informed you generally that Gen l Kosciuzko had left a considerable sum of money in the funds of the US. and had, by a will deposited in my hands, disposed of i t to a charitable purpose: & I asked the favor of your opinion in what court the will should be proved. according to that opinion, expressed in your favor of Dec. 28. I proved the...