1Enclosure: Joseph C. Cabell to Robert G. Scott, 13 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You recollect, no doubt, that when you introduced, at the last session of the General Assembly , the resolution for publishing the Bill “providing for the establishment of primary schools, Academies, Colleges and an University,” I suggested to You the propriety of amending the resolution, so as to embrace in it other documents which are contained in the Pamphlet , printed & distributed by the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Robert G Scott, 9 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved on the 2 d inst. your favor of Sep. 27. conveying to me the obliging invitation of the Volunteer companies of the state to meet them and their distinguished guest Gen l La Fayette at York on the 19 th inst. no person rejoices more than I do at the effusions of gratitude with which our f.c. in all parts are recieving this their antient and virtuous friend and benefactor, nor can any...
3From James Madison to Robert G. Scott, 6 October 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of Sepr. 27th. inviting me in behalf of the Volunteers of the State, to join them and other Citizens at Yorktown on the 19th. instant, in celebrating the event of which that is the anniversary, and in expressing the gratitude & affection due to Genl. Lafayette, whose presence with all the recollections awakened by it must give to the occasion a peculiar interest....
4James Madison to Robert G. Scott, 7 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd a letter from Mr Walsh, a copy of which is enclosed. Not possessing the detailed information he wishes, & presuming that you can readily furnish it, I must ask your aid in complying with the request made notwithstanding the affectionate intercourse with my kinsman during the few years of my residence in Williamsburg; we had previous to that period been strangers to each other,...