1Virginia Council of State’s Appointment of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 29 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor called the attention of the board to the subject of appointing Visitors for the University of Virginia in Conformity with the provisions of an act of assembly passed the 25 January 1819 —Whereupon, the following persons were duly appointed Visitor—to wit: Thomas Jefferson — James Madison — Chapman Johnson — Jos. C. Cabell
2Thomas Jefferson and John H. Cocke to James Breckinridge, Joseph C. Cabell, Chapman Johnson, James Madison, and Robert … (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to the resolution of the visitors of the university at their last session, the Proctor has been constantly employed in ‘ascertaining the state of accounts under contracts already made, and the expence of compleating the buildings begun and contemplated’: and we have consequently suspended, according to instructions, ‘the entering into any contracts for the Library until we see...
3Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 15 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with deep affliction that nothing is likely to be done for our University this year. so near as it is to the shore that one shove more would land it there, I had hoped that would be given; and that we should open with the next year an institution on which the fortunes of our country depend more than may meet the gem general eye. the reflections that the boys of this age are to be the...
4Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 30 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brockenbrough has been closely engaged, since our last meeting in settling the cost of the buildings finished at the University , that we might obtain a more correct view of the state of our funds, and see whether a competency will remain for the Library. he has settled for 6. Pavilions, 1. Hotel, and 35. Dormitories, and will proceed with the rest; so that I hope, by our next meeting, the...
5Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, Chapman Johnson, and Robert Taylor, 8 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Proposing within a few days to set out for Bedford , I think it a duty previously to state to you the progress and prospect of things at the University . you may perhaps remember that almost in the moment of our separation at the last meeting one of our colleagues proposed a change of a part of the plan of the grounds, so as to place the gardens of the Professors adjacent to the rear of their...
6Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 9 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for your kind attention in procuring me Greenlee ’s plat. it’s exact conformity with my patent will satisfy my neighbor that his junior one must give way to it. we were sorry we had not the benefit of your assistance at our meeting. on the 1 st day only mr Johnson and myself attended . on the 2 d day mr Madison and Gen l Cocke joined us.
7Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 19 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 27. was recieved on the 10 th instant . we all regretted your absence at the last meeting of the Visitors and should have done so the more had we known the true cause. our suspicion was that you had mistaken the day, like our brother Cabell who came after our adjournment. he read however and approved what we had done. the sum of that being stated in our report to the...
8Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
You have had a right to suppose me very unmindful of my promise to furnish you with drawings for your Courthouse . yet the fact is not so. a few days after I parted with you, the use of the waters of the warm spring began to affect me sensibly & unfavorably, and at length produced serious imposthume & eruption, with fever, colliquative sweats, & extreme debility. these sufferings aggravated by...
9Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 9 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 28. was recieved on the 7 th inst. we failed in having a Quorum on the 1 st . mr Johnson and Gen l Taylor were laboring for Lithgow in Richmond , and mr Madison
10Thomas Jefferson’s View of the Expenses and Funds of the University of Virginia, [ca. 28 September 1821] (Jefferson Papers)
A view of the whole expences & of the Funds of the University Actual cost estimated d o Averages D D D Pavilions. N o 3. & 7. undertaken in 1817.18. 19,149. 81 9,574. 90 N