31James Madison to John Hartwell Cocke, 16 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. from Doctr. Dunglison a letter of which the inclosed is a copy; and I lose no time in making it known to you, as I am doing to the other Visitors—The following is an extract of a private letter which he desires may also be placed before the Visitors. "Professor Davis begs me to express to you officially his desire to occupy my Pavilion and grounds when I leave the University....
32Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 1 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cocke and acknoleges the reciept of eight ewes by his servant, two on his own account and six for Col o Fontaine , and hopes in the ensuing season to be able to return them 4. half blooded Merinos, of the produce of the same ewes. he begs leave to assure mr Cocke of his great esteem & respect. RC ( ViU : TJP-Co ); dateline at foot of text;...
33Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 28 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The servant who delivered your letter will recieve 4. ram lambs, 3 of them from the half dozen ewes you sent, the other in commutation for 2. ewes sent by Col o Fontaine , but which I am sure he never saw, as they were such miserable half grown, diminutive animals that I could not permit them to run with my flock, and sent them to another place. I send a lamb from my own ewes however in...
34Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 12 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cocke, whose servant is desired to take as many Broom plants as he pleases, but having never found them to succeed by transplantation, he sends him some seed, which generally succeeds, altho sometimes it does not come up till the second spring.— he sends him also a little seed of the Sprout Kale , a plant he recieved from The National garden of...
35Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 19 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Patterson , and my grandson T. J. Randolph inform me you have a dark bay horse which you are disposed to sell at the price of 50.£ and which, from their description would suit me. they speak of him as a steady carriage horse, and a tolerable riding horse. if their information as to your purposes of selling him be right, I shall be glad to recieve him by the bearer , with the privilege of...
36Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 5 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I had expected long ere this that the sale of my flour in the hands of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson in Richmond would have enabled me to send you an order on them for the price of the horse you were so kind as to furnish me with: and the rather as I had desired mr Gibson , as I informed you, to sell it for whatever he could get, & this I have been constantly repeating & expecting. but by our...
37Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 23 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful for the indulgence of your kind letter of Aug. 27. and happy in being now able to forward you an order on my correspondents in Richmond for the price of the horse you were so good as to let me have. I find him really valuable, and in the carriage particularly excellent, so as to be entirely contented with him. Our intelligence from abroad gives us reason to expect a long state of...
38Isaac A. Coles’s Account of a Conversation with Thomas Jefferson, [before 23 February 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
With M r Jefferson I conversed at length on the subject of architecture— Palladio he said “was the Bible”—. You should get it & stick close to it—. He had sent all his Books &c. &c. to Washington , or he would have drawn y r House for you—it would have been a pleasure to him—but now he could not undertake to do it before the fall when he expected other Books from Paris —He disapproved of...
39Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke and David Watson, 10 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been in contemplation for some time to establish a College some where near Charlottesville , of which I presume you have been apprised by the reciept of a Commission from the Governor appointing you one of the 6. Visitors. a first meeting of the Visitors is extremely urgent, to recieve from our predecessors what belongs to the institution, and to set it in motion. no person being...
40Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 27 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson is very thankful to Gen l Cocke for the sample of Scuppernong wine which he has been so kind as to send him, and which he considers to be as fine, as it is a singular wine. he sends him plants of the Marseilles fig & of his the Paper or Otaheite mulberry, & cuttings of the Lombardy poplar which he brought from France , very different from the common one, being a tree of some shade.
41Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 1 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The present express is sent to remove all uncertainty as to the day of our meeting, which, for the reasons mentioned when I had the pleasure of seeing you at Enniscorthy , is to be on Monday next, our county court day, instead of the next day Tuesday. I have a letter from the President Monroe assuring me I may rely on his attendance. I expect mr Madison & his family the day after tomorrow....
42Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 19 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The promptitude of subscriptions, far beyond my expectations calls for a prompt decision on some matters which I had supposed might have been in time at our fall meeting. I propose to go to mr Madison’s to consult with him between the middle & last of the ensuing week, and I should be very happy if you could come, go with me to the College ground to see what is done & doing and then to mr...
43Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke, and David Watson, 7 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
letters recieved last night from mr Cooper render a meeting of the visitors immediately indispensable, or all done yesterday comes to nothing. if you will be so good as to be at Monticello by ten aclock I will endeavor to detain mr Madison till that hour & to get Colo Monroe to meet you there as a halfway house. Accept my friendly & respectful salutations. RC (
44Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, David Watson, and John H. Cocke, [2 January 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
A report to the Governor having been agreed on at our last meeting, and it’s materials being chiefly in my possession, I have presumed to make a draught, and now send it for your consideration. if approved as it is, be so good as to sign it; if any material alteration be thought necessary, if such as not to deface the paper be so good as to make it & sign, if it deface the paper I must request...
45Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 25 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his compliments to Gen l Cocke regrets much the having missed him both in going & coming from Charlottesville ; he hopes he will do him the favor of coming here this evening, or tomorrow, as business of extreme urgency depends on it. he salutes him with friendship & respect RC ( ViU: TJP-Co ); written on a small scrap; dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ Gen l Cocke .”...
46Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Successive circumstances too long to be detailed in a letter, have prevented me hitherto for p from proposing a meeting of the Visitors of the College . that of the Visitors of the University being postponed to the 29 th of March renders our immediate meeting indispensable. I therefore propose to you to be at mr Madison ’s on in the forenoon of Friday next the 26 th
47Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 3 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
It is really scandalous, after so liberal a supply of fish from you to ask a second donation. yet I am forced to it by the stupidity of the servant who in my absence was entrusted with the mission. instead of never stopping till he got home, night overtook him on the road, he encamped, and the water being unchanged thro’ the night, he found the fish all dead on his awakening in the morning. my...
48Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 7 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I now inclose you a catalogue of the best editions of the Classics, Greek & Latin, and I have prepared a copy of it which I shall inclose in a letter to Gen l Taylor . our two Italian sculptors are arrived, and are recommended as men of superior character and have much that appearance. their passage, necessary advances & journey from Baltimore here have brought a pretty...
49Enclosure: Arthur S. Brockenbrough’s Cost Estimates for University of Virginia Building Construction, 1 October 1819 … (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to the order of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia , requiring of the Proctor “an estimate of the whole cost of completing ten pavilions, with their appendages, the number deemed necessary for the proper accommodation of the whole number of Professors contemplated by the Legislature , five hotels, and dormitories in number depending on the number of Students who...
50Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 8 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the draught of a letter to D r Cooper for your consideration & amendments. should these not be so considerable as to disfigure the paper much, you will be so good as to insert them & return the paper with your signature. if too considerable for that, have the goodness to have a fair copy made as you amend it & to return that signed that it may go on without further delay. I write...
51Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, with Jefferson’s Note to John H. Cocke, 12 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Nelson has come over to do the work of Pavilion N o 5 – Before I knew of it was your and General Cocke s intention that M r Nelson should
52Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 5 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 3. letters from D r Cooper . the 1 st was written before he recieved our’s , which crossed his by the way. t he 2 d as soon as he had recieved our’s, the 3 d three days after when
53Virginia 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
54Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 9 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Cooper had written a letter to me in which a private subject rendered it incommunicable to the board ; but in that letter he mentioned D r Rice ’s attack on him, expressed his concern lest a personal opposition to him might not only prove uneasy to himself but make him a burthen to his friends: and that if I thought so, he should be willing to resign. I answered him on the opinion that the...
55Michele Raggi and Giacomo Raggi to Thomas Jefferson and John H. Cocke, [received 1 September 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Li loro Servi Michele e Giacomo Raggi esebisconsi per fare un Acomodo di fargli tre proggetti, che loro Sig ri potranno apprendersi a quello che gli senbrerà piu Aproposito ⅌ il loro Avantaggio. P mo Che il Súnomato Michele prontamente si porterà nel piu Vicino Porto D’ Europa a prendere sua moglie a proprie Spese e Carico de Viaggi, sempre che gli rinovino il Contrato
56Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 5 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
We have a difficulty with our Italian Sculptors which I need your aid and advice to get over. the wife of the elder one refuses to come to America , & that of the younger could not come alone. this has thrown the younger man into great despondency. he had just married when he left Italy , and has had a child born since he came away. he has sprained his wrist also so that he will not be able to...
57Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 16 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It this moment occurs to me that on presenting, with our annual report , the accounts of the Bursar and Proctor we ought to be able to state that they have been examined, vouched and passed. you were so kind on behalf of the board , as to undertake this task. would it be practicable for you to do this before our meeting? I hope you will do us the favor to dine at Monticello the day before...
58Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 12 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last mail brought me a letter from mr Rodney and the inclosed seeds of pumpkin and asparagus for you, and as the season for sowing the latter is at hand, I have thought it better to forward them by mail than to await the 1 st day of April when we expect the pleasure of seeing you here. we have been obliged to call a special meeting on that day, that by performing this, the only...
59Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 1 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I dined from home yesterday & did not return till night which has occasioned the detention of your servant till this morning. I am sorry you cannot join us, as we have an important question to decide, but still more regret the cause of your absence. mr Madison is now here, and I count with much confidence on mr Cabell and mr Johnson which will make us a quorum. I think too that Gen l...
60James Breckinridge and Chapman Johnson to John H. Cocke, 5 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We returned yesterday from the University , where we regreted your absence very much, and were the more concerned to hear that indisposition had prevented your attendance— We had a bare quorum, M r Cabell and Gen l Taylor being also absent—the latter had not been heard from,— the former like yourself was prevented from attending, by sickness— Want of information of the state of our finances,...