1Thomas Jefferson to George Long (ca. 1782–1843), 30 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 20 th inst. and with it miss Palmyra Johnson ’s poetic tale of Rosalie, and I beg leave, thro’ the same channel to return her my thanks for it. I have read it with great pleasure, and that is saying much for it from a reader of 77. but the effusions of a feeling heart and delicate fancy, expressed in smooth numbers, make their impression even on the dull...
2From Francis Walker Gilmer to George Long, 28 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This covenant entered into at London, this 28 th day of September in the year 1824, between Francis W. Gilmer attorney in fact for the university of Virginia, of the one part, and George Long, of the other part Witnesseth that the said Gilmer attorney in fact as aforesaid, doth hereby appoint the said Long, a professor in the said university of Virginia, and covenants with the said Long that...
¶ To George Long. Letters not found. Post - 26 December 1824. Mentioned by Long in his letter to Henry Tutwiler, 30 May 1875, published in Thomas Fitzhugh, ed., Letters of George Long (Charlottesville, Va., 1917), 24–25: “Soon after my arrival in Virginia, and it was either in December 1824 or in January 1825, I received a letter from Mr. Madison, whom I had not then seen. He asked me if I...
4From James Madison to George Long, 8 September 1827 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 31. was duly recd. by the Mail preceding the last. Altho’ it ought not to produce surprize, that you should, on the expiration of your engagement here, prefer a residence in your native Country, I am very sure that I express a regret common to the Visitors that the University should lose a professor, whose qualifications, can scarcely be hoped for in a Successor whether...
5From James Madison to George Long, 3 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
My communication with the other Visitors on the subject of your several letters necessarily retarded by their scattered & distant situations was unfortunately still further delayed, by four of their letters having entered mail for Montpr. in Vermont. I am at length authorized to confirm my anticipation of the regret of the prospect of losing your valuable services in the University; and their...
6From James Madison to George Long, 4 January 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Monday last came to hand yesterday, and the same mail brought me the letter from Mr Brougham, bearing date Ocr. 20th. He refers to the choice made of you for the Greek professorship in the London University; and to the 1st. of October as the time when its duties would require you to be there; and communicates the anxiety felt for a release from your engagements here upon the...
7James Madison to George Long, 8 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
Your obliging letter of Decr—came duly to hand. Having heard nothing since either from you or from Mr. Barbour, I infer that our field of choice for the vacant Chair in our University will be limited to our own Country: In this event, your favorable estimate of Mr. Harrison’s qualifications will doubtless be a weight in his scale, when compared with the pretensions of others. Of the standing...
8James Madison to George Long, 30 March 1830 (Madison Papers)
This will be handed to you by the Revd. Mr. Smith of the Episcopal Church in Virginia, who crosses the Atlantic for the improvement of his health. The character you left with us makes him wish to be made known to you during his short stay in England, and I am justified by the respect due to his personal & pastoral virtues, in presenting him to you as entirely worthy of your friendly...