21Alexander Garrett to Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home last night I recieved your favor of the 29 th In t incloseing the draft of a report intended to be made by the Visitors of the Central college to the Governor —and altho much gratified at an opportunity of seeing the report, yet I regret extreemly that my absence from home, should have occasioned a moments delay, in forwarding the same to the Governor ; I now return you the...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Garrett, 1 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the letters & c with which I was charged by Mess rs Gilmer & Cabell to which I beg to add, a part of a New York paper giving some information of the Competitor, by a still later arrival at Norfolk, later intelegence is recieved, the Norfolk Herald of the 27 th Jan y states, that the Competitor was at Plymouth on the 5 th December to sail soon, I succeeded in selling $10,000 of the...
23Alexander Garrett and Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 30 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 has been received. The abscence of each of us from town with other circumstances is the apology for this delay in our Reply: but it affords us now infinite satisfaction to be enabled to acquaint you, in behalf of our brethren, that, on second thought, it has been concluded to dispense with a small part of the ceremony and to undertake the laying of the corner-stone of the...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Garrett, 4 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In execution of the resolution of the board of Visitors of October 1824. directing “a negociation with either of the banks in Richmond for a loan to the University, to the amount of the s e perate part of the subscriptions,” On the 14 th of October last, I addressed letters to the Presidents of the bank of Virginia, & Farmers bank of Virginia, preposing an accomodation to the university of...
25Alexander Garrett and Valentine W. Southall to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Our respective lodges feeling, with the public, much solicitude for the erection and success of the Central College , have nominated us, with others, as committees in behalf of our respective institutions, to make the necessary arrangements for carrying into effect your very kind and polite reply to the wish expressed by some of their members, that we might be permitted, as is usual with our...