1Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had a good hunt for among my papers for Main ’s recipe for the preparation of Haws: and at length, after almost despairing, have found it in the midst of a small volume of extracts from Brown ’s Rural Affairs. I now send it to you, agreeably to your desire. I am, dear sir, very respectfully & truly yours RC ( ViU: TJP-PC ); endorsed by TJ as received 8 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in...
2Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place yesterday evening on my return home from the election in Goochland . Gen l Cocke informs me that he met you at Enniscorthy on his as you were going to Bedford , and that he learned from you that the meeting which you proposed of the Visitors of the Central College was intended to be on the day fixed in the Law for the Gen l meeting in the Spring, viz, on the first day...
3Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now do myself the pleasure to enclose you the list of English Books sold by Barrois at Paris , agreeably to my promise to you at M r Madison’s . Upon examination I find there are but few works, which you would probably wish to purchase. You would oblige me by the return of the catalogue at some future day, as I shall wish to make use of it from time to time. But I shall not want it for a...
4Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 7 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note of this morning has this moment been received by Gen l Cocke & myself. The association for an Agricultural Society , adjourned yesterday evening to 10’ 11’ O’clock this day. The Judge Stewart has been engaged to give an opportunity to the members of the Bar to attend. If we let slip this op- occasion, perhaps, it will be impossible to bring the gentlemen together a second time. Will...
5Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the use of the enclosed papers, which I have copied, and now commit to the first mail after my return to this place. I shall endeavor to make myself master as well of your plan for schools, as of that for Colleges, before the period at which these subjects will be taken up in the House of Delegates . If you could conveniently spare the time, I think it would be of great benefit...
6Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed subscriptions to the funds of the College by M r Tucker and M r Coalter are made by those gentlemen to demonstrate their favourable opinion of the institution and friendly regard to those who have its management entrusted to their care. Having been exposed five hours on the water in going down the Rappahannock from Urbanna , and several in returning, an inflammation arose on one...
7Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived in town last evening, and received this morning at the post office your two letters of 18. & 19. inst , which now lie before me. Before I reply to them, I will go back to circumstances that preceded their arrival. I presume you have reached Monticello , and have received my last letter from this place, touching our prospects with the Cincinnati and the General Assembly . Shortly...
8Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of 18. and 19. ult , were both received at the same time, and had been lying in the post office at this place, some days before my return from Williamsburg . Since their receipt to this time, I have been unusually employed on a joint committee of the two houses , of Assembly , and in the Senate . But I lost not a moment in attending to your request respecting the rates of...
9Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will not think me neglectful in not having sooner acknowledged the receipt of your letters of 31 st ult: and of 6 th 15 th 14 th and 15 th inst , to all of which I have paid all the attention compatible with my immediate and indispensable duties in the Senate .
10Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As I came out of the Capitol to-day, I was received from one of the doorkeepers the enclosed copy of the bill reported by the Committee of Schools & Colleges , which I have hastily looked over, and in regard to which I confess myself greatly disappointed. Indeed, Sir, the prospect before us is dreary indeed . Perhaps the subject may be dressed up in the House , but when a committee begins so...
11Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1818 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my last letter to you I have had conferences with the Presidents of the three Banks in this place on the subject of the proposed loan in anticipation of the resources of the College . The enclosed letters between Doctor Brokenbrough & myself, contain the best terms which it has been in my power to procure. From my conversation with M r Hatcher I am led to doubt whether the...
12Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1818 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Since I last wrote you the enclosed substitutes to for M r Scott ’s, or the Committee’s bill, have been offered in the House of Delegates . M r Taylor of Chesterfield , a member of good talents and standing in that House
13Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I now enclose you the Duplicate Patent of M r Des Essart ’s land, which I procured from the Land office, together with his letter to you , and the French copy of his Patent. I have retained a copy of his letter to you , of yours to me on the same subject, and of the Patent, which I shall put into the hands of M r Davisson , or some other member, for the purpose of procuring particular...
14Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I now do myself the pleasure to enclose you a printed copy of your bill, the printer having just sent the copies to the House . The subject will be agitated in the House of Delegates on tomorrow or the next day. I have no reasons to change my anticipations as to the result of the measures respecting the Literary fund stated in my former Letters to you. Yet I have thought it my duty still to...
15Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Louis Summers of the county of Kanawha & one of the members of the House of Delegates , proposes to leave town in the morning on his return to his constituents. It is possible that he may have it in his power to call at Monticello on his way thro’ Albemarle . I have taken the liberty to offer him a letter of introduction to you. It would give him great pleasure to become personally...
16Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot find among the Delegates from Louis a and the neighbouring counties a person with to whom I should like to entrust your papers in the case of M r Des Essarts . The Senator mentioned in one of my late letters is too loose in his habits of business to expect from him a complete & satisfactory execution of such a commission. M r Johnson of the
17Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 16 th is now before me. I thank you for your confirmation of what I did with your Letter . Whatever may be the success of a few interested men in lessening the weight your advice ought to have with the Assembly , as soon as the present contest is over, your conduct will command the respect of all, as it now does of the enlightened and liberal. I hasten to apprize you that our...
18Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The University Bill has passed very in the form of the enclosed, with one small exception. The appointment of the Commissioners is now a subject of infinite importance to us. The Executive, I think, will do us justice. But you will observe that vacancies are to be filled by the President & Directors of the Literary fund . Three out of five of these of the five come from beyond the mountain ....
19Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
I have just arrived here on my way home, having left my wife in the lower country till the roads get better. My plan is to stay at home about a week, and to call on you either in going or coming. When I get to Gen l Cocke ’s this evening, I shall be informed whether there is any necessity for my calling on my way up; sh d there not be, as I have great occasion to see to my domestic concerns, I...
20Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a note from Wills’s in Fluvanna on my way up, in which I mentioned my intention to call on you on my return to the Lower Country. From the state in which I find my business affairs, I expect it will be the 26 th of the month before I shall be at Monticello . In the interim, I think it may not be amiss for me to say a few words to you by letter. From the best information I can...
21Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I forgot to leave with you, as I intended, a little book, called the Oxford & Cambridge Guide. It may be acceptable to you at the present Crisis. I will thank you for the return of it, when I come up in May, as I shall wish to look over it in the summer. I send it by the stage Driver. RC ( ViU: TJP-PC ); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Apr. 1818 and so recorded in SJL .
22Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by my brother William , the signatures of the majority of the subscribers to the funds of the Central College in Nelson County to the deed of conveyance of the property of the College to the Commonwealth on the condition of the location of the University at the Scite of the College . I have met with the ready assent of every subscriber to whom I have yet presented the paper; & I am...
23Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happily recovering from the severe fever which has, of late, confined me to my bed for 20 days, but am barely able to take a turn across the room. Col: Coles told me the substance of his conversation with you lately at Monticello ; observing, that you wished to go to Bedford & had a thought of calling on me on your way, but your health being bad, it was doubtful whether you would be...
24Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on 11 th inst on my way to Monticello , and on 12 th was visited by a most unexpected and mortifying relapse, which, tho in part removed, still hangs lingering about me, has thrown me into a weak & delicate state of body, and threatens to deprive me altogether of the satisfaction & advantage of seeing you before the meeting of the Assembly . I yield the idea of a personal...
25Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The Senate formed a House to-day: the House of Delegates yesterday . A conference between Mess rs Carr and Gordon & myself held this morning resulted in an agreement to get M r Taylor of Chesterfield to bring forward the subject of the University
26Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Banks has not appointed as good a select committee as I had expected. There is a decided majority of the committee in favor of the Central College : but the eastern members are less attentive than the western. I have urged the importance of having a full meeting, before the final question is taken. M r Taylor is aware of the danger. The committee has had two meetings; at the first, it was...
27Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1818 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
The select committee of the House of Delegates on the subject of the university has just had a third meeting. 13 members attended. On the question whether the bill should be reported with a blank as to the scite, it was decided to fill in the negative by the casting vote of the Chairman . The Central College was selected as the scite, and the bill
28Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 December 1818 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing the within I have conversed with M r Davidson , the Senator from Clarksburg . He arrived but two days ago. His friendship I was sure of: but I feared the opposition had drawn him so far over, as to silence him: but but I did him injustice. He tells me he has conversed with 22 members from the N. West: and they all, except one, promised expressed themselves in favor of the Central...
29Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Conformably to your advice, I urged the friends of the University to hasten the proceedings of the House of Delegates upon that subject, and to get the Bill up to the Senate before Christmas . Unfortunately, however, the Bill is now lying on the table of the Lower House , after one reading & an order to print. As we met on 17 th 7
30Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 7 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 1 st ins t has been duly received, and I thank you for the information it contains. I also thank you for the copy of Tracy ’s work, which I received in a few days from the time it left you, but have heretofore omitted to mention. In my last I gave you an account of our declining & gloomy prospects respecting the University . Just about Christmas , & from that period to the 1 st...
31Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Grateful, truly grateful, is it to my heart, to be able to announce to you; the result of this day’s proceedings in the House of Delegates . In Committee of the whole, the question was taken, after an elaborate discussion, on the question motion to strike the Central College from the Bill . The vote was as follows;—for striking out 69—against it 114—majority ag t striking out 45 . This is a...
32Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 19 th ins t the University Bill passed the House of Delegates , only 28 members voting against it. Yesterday I moved its committment in the Senate . The Committee are myself Mess rs Johnson ,
33Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The question on striking out the central College from the University Bill has just been taken in the Senate , and rejected by a vote of 16 to 7. And I am happy to inform you that immediately thereafter, the question was taken on the passage of the Bill , and that it passed by a vote of 22 to 1. I began to take some part in the discussion which has taken up all of Saturday & to-day; but in my...
34Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 28 th ult: was received on monday time enough to be answered by the mail of that evening, but I declined doing so in order to have an opportunity of conversing with some of my friends before I should write. I am very sensible of the truth of all that you say on the inadequacy of the funds for the University : and most willingly would I co-operate in augmenting them: but knowing...
35Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Least your Enquirer of the 28 th Jan: may have miscarried, I now have the pleasure to enquire enclose you that paper. The President & directors of the Literary Fund have placed us in an aukward dilemma by an egregious mistatement of the amount & proceeds of the Fund. Relying as usual on the statements of that Board, we have appropriated $80,000. as part of the Revenue of the Fund; when in fact...
36Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 15 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On saturday the Visitors of the University were appointed. They are Thomas Jefferson , James Madison , Chapman Johnson , James Breckenridge , Robert B. Taylor , John H. Cocke and Joseph C. Cabell . I communicated to the Governor a message from
37Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 19 th has this moment arrived. I am sorry that it is out of my power to attend the meeting at M r Madison ’s on friday. In the present state of the roads, and with such symptoms as I have lately experienced, it would be improper in me to undertake the journey. I hope you will be able to secure the attendance of M r Watson and Gen l Cocke ; and even if you should not, I am pretty...
38Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that, since I last wrote you , the Legislature has de repealed the additional appropriation of $20,000, to the education of the poor . The question came up again by an amendment in the Senate to the Revised Bill respecting the Literary Fund; it passed the Senate una ni mously, and the House of Delegates by a majority of 18. We are thus happily extricated from an...
39Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note of 6 th ins t by M r Garrett covering the advertisement for the workmen for the University has been received. I walked immediately to the office of the Enquirer & had the advertisement inserted in that paper, where I shall cause it to be continued for some successive papers. I have introduced M
40Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brokenbrough left this for Gen l Cocke ’s on yesterday morning. It seems that he cannot establish himself at the University until 1 st Aug t ; yet I hope you may be disposed to engage him, as, I think, he will be a source of great comfort & relief to you. I have reflected a good deal on subjects connected with the University since we separated: some thoughts have occurred to me which I beg...
41Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Being now at this place on my way to the Lower country I avail myself of the opportunity by M r Neilson to return the plan of your House in Bedford , for the use of which I beg you to accept my sincere thanks. I admire it very much. But the want of suitable instruments and continued indisposition almost ever since I left Monticello , have prevented me from taking a copy. It is not however...
42Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here the day before yesterday, & found your favor of 20 th ult , in the post office. The unfortunate and long-continued illness of my wife , kept me in Williamsburg till the 1 st ins t . The session is now far advanced; but I hope it is not too late to procure a further endowment of the University . The lamentable occurrence in the treasury
43Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 17 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The result of all my enquiries convinced me that the only course left us was to aim to get the present & future surpluses of the Literary fund, & to amend the Bill lying on the table of the Senate & giving the counties the right of drawing out their arrears. m r Johnson & myself concerted measures: & with the aid of m r Hay in the debate, carried the Amendment unanimously thro’ the Senate ,...
44Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Bill has this moment passed into a law. The House of Delegates having first rejected the amendment of the Senate for $80,000: and then that for $40,000—and the having postponed the whole bill on 22 d ; Gen l Breckenridge , m r Johnson
45Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I neglected to bring with me M r Garrett’s account , which I am instructed to examine & verify; and beg the favor of you to send it by the Bearer. I wish to compare it with the account in the Bursar’s Books from which it was copied; at the same time that I compare t check the latter by the vouchers. Perhaps I shall be induced to take the account home, in order to examine the additions at my...
46Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you sincerely for your favor of Nov: 28. which I received on my arrival here on 5 th ins t . I should have written you before now, but that my whole time has been taken up by the scandalous attack on Governor Randolph ’s character. Thank Heaven! we were fortunate enough to make the blow recoil on the heads of his accusers, and I trust we shall never again be insulted by the intrusion...
47Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
On consultation with Gen l Breckenridge & others it was decided that we should bring forward nothing in regard to the University till after Christmas. I got leave of absence till 29 th and left town on 20 th . The evening before my departure I was informed that M r Griffin of York
48Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you sincerely for your letter of Dec: 25 th which I found here on my arrival on 30 th . Indisposition confined me in Williamsburg rather longer than I expected when I last wrote you . Since my arrival I have been incessantly engaged on the subject of the University . We have a powerful combination to oppose, & the result is extremely doubtful. If you will examine the enclosed...
49Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to inform you that it seems to be the general impression here that we shall be able to effect nothing for the University during the present session. It is with the most heartfelt grief that I acknowledge this to be my own impression. The Reports relative to the Literary Fund are not yet before us, and this delay operates against us. The Governor has done all in his power, but the...
50Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my letter of 18 th ins t the meeting therein alluded to has taken place. I find M r Johnson totally averse to any expression of opinion on the subject of the Ancient charters. Our meeting broke up without any valuable result. The want of a Report on the state of the Literary fund , paralizes every thing