1From George Long to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 4 July 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Several of the students have applied to me for information about the terms on which a diploma in Greek could be obtained—I was of course unable to give them any answer, but I promised to lay the subject before the Visitors. There are a few whose industry and acquirements will deserve some reward: they wish to know what will be expected that they may have sufficient time to make the necessary...
2From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 21 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Wirt declined the offices proposed to him. M r Lomax has accepted the Professorship of Law, and will open his school on the 1 st day of July. he has paid us a visit, and his appointment appears to have given the highest degree of satisfaction to every body, Professors Students, Neighbors, and to none more than to myself. we have now 166. students, and on the opening of the Law school, we...
3From John Patten Emmet to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 3 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor, agreeably to the Enactments, to lay before you the journal of the Faculty. In company with them are two reports of Committees appointed by the Faculty; one (marked A ) relates to a Police and the other (marked B , is upon our Enactments. They are both respectfully submitted for your most serious consideration. In conclusion, Gentlemen, I beg to present my sincerest respects....
4From George N. Spotswood to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 3 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
You will pardon the liberty I take in troubling you with this letter, but I consider it a duty I not only owe to my family but to the Institution to call your attention to the uncomfortable tenement I occupy, particularly when I reflect upon the losses in slaves I met with last fall and the great distress of my family from sickness produced from the situation of the yard & drains, and no...
5From Arthur S. Brockenbrough to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 2 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I contracted with M r Philip Sturtevant: for the carving of the Composite Capitels for the library room at $30 each amounting to the Sum of $1.200 as appears from Letter N o 1 accompanying this—from his letter of the 1 st Jan y N o 2 you will find he is not satisfied with the contract and asks more pay—I informed him I would not take the responsibility of paying him more than the contract...
6From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 20 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Circular It is with the sincerest regret I inform you that we are likely to be again at default for our Professor of law. M r Gilmer’s situation is become decidedly pulmonary and hopeless. he has not yet been made sensible of the real character of his case and therefore only notifies me in a letter that it is certain he shall not be in health for the commencement of the term, and suggests the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the day of one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, between Arthur S. Brockenbrough, Proctor of the University of Virginia in the county of Albemarle on the one part and Thomas Jefferson Rector, and James Madison, James Breckenridge, Chapman Johnson Joseph C. Cabell, John Hartwell Cocke and George Loyall Visitors of the said University on the other part witnesseth...
8From John B. Richeson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having a desire to establish a Reading–Room the ensuing year in the University, I respectfully solicit your attention to the subject—Should it meet with your approbation and I be allowed the privilege of keeping it, it shall be furnished with the best political, agricultural, and periodical papers published in the United States—And I pledge myself to conduct it according to the regulations...
9From Thomas Hewitt Key to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 6 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding from D r Dunglison at the meeting of the Faculty yesterday, that, in case of our persisting in our resolution to resign, it was your intention to refuse to accept such resignation, and to delcare that we should thereby subject ourselves to certain pecuniary penalties; we request of you an explanation of this statement of D r Dunglison’s (fully believing that he must have...
10From Thomas Hewitt Key to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 6 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned Professors of the University of Virginia hereby tender to you the resignation of their respective chairs. T. H. Key George Long. ViU .