11From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in informing you that the Board of Visitors at their late meeting unanimously appointed you Professor of the school of Law in the University of Virginia, and that on signifying your acceptance the letter of appointment shall be immediately made out. with my sincere hopes that this mark of the esteem in which they hold you may be recieved with as much pleasure as it has...
12Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 29 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the communication of mr Correa ’s letter, affectionate to us all, which I now return. no foreigner, I believe, has ever carried with him more, or more sincere regrets of the friends he has left behind. as he embraced in his affections our country generally, I hope his kind recollections will efface the little dissatisfactions he felt with our government before they...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 6 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The board of Visitors met the day before yesterday and I laid before them your letters, your report and documents and I have the pleasure to assure you that the manner in which you have executed your mission has given them the most perfect & unqualified satisfaction and they are especially pleased with your selection of Professors so far as they see of them as yet . I now return you the...
14Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 26 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, very dear Sir, and cordially for your little treatise on Usury, which I have read with great pleasure. you have justified the law on it’s true ground, that of the duty of society to protect it’s members, disabled from taking care of themselves by causes either physical or moral: and the instances you quote where this salutary function has been exercised with unquestionable...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been anxious to visit you and think I could do it; but D r Dunglison protests against it. I am at this time tolerably easy, but small things make great changes at times. I can only in this way then ask you how you do? and not requiring an answer from yourself but from such member of the family as is well enough. we have had a fine January, but may expect a better February. that month...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You have made me a magnificent present in the newly found work of Cicero; and the more precious, as the like is not to be had in the US. the partial terms in which it is conveyed, I duly ascribe to the friendship from which they flow. to the extended views into futurity which these present I have no pretensions. If the rancourous vituperations of enemies, made so, but bitterly so, by the...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 12 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to you but once since you left us, which was on the 5 th of June, and have duly recieved yours of June 6. 21. July 7. 20. Aug. 13. and 27. in that of July 20. you mentioned the possibility that you might be detained longer than we had expected, perhaps to Dec. or January, and wished a remittance of 6. or 700. D. for expences if lengthened, as possibly might be. this with your...
18From James Madison to Francis Walker Gilmer, 18 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 10th. inclosing the letter from Mr. Correa, for the perusal of which you will please to accept my thanks. I am glad to find that he leaves our country with so many cordial feelings: and I can not but value highly the share allowed me in such, by one, not more distinguished by the treasures of his capacious mind, than by the virtues and charms of his social...
19Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 28 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 23 d and am sorry it is not in my power to give you the smallest degree of information on the enquiries it contains. it is now 40. years since we worked on the Revisal, and the particular act you speak of having been in that epoch of the British statutes assigned to mr Wythe , never became fell under my consideration but merely when submitted to the...
20From James Madison to Francis Walker Gilmer, 17 April 1824 (Madison Papers)
I recd. by the last mail yours of the 9th. and inclose the requested letter to Mr. Rush. I have not added one to Sr. Js. Mackintosh; believing that what I have said in reference to him & yourself, through Mr. Rush will derive from his communications whatever effect could be hoped from a direct letter from myself; that whilst it avoids a liberty, which in a perfect stranger might possibly have...