1From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Swift, 22 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 15. was not answered because we were in daily expectation of the vote of a donation, by our legislature, to enable us to purchase books and apparatus for our University. the vote was afterwards past but rested on a contingency, the failure of which was not made known to me until since the reciept of your favor of the 8 th inst. inclosing a catalogue of one of the libraries...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Swift, 21 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favor of the 11 th with the catalogue it covered, and which I now return. as soon as funds for the procuring a library for the University were put into the hands of the Visitors we took up the subject and concluded that having formed a catalogue of what was requisite for us, we would employ an agent to make the purchases. we accordingly engaged mr Hilliard, of the...