26711Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of 5 th ins t relative to the subject of the petition of the Rivanna Company . You may rest assured that I shall pay the most pointed attention to this business, and do every thing in my power to guard your rights from invasion. I immediately held a preliminary conversation with my friend Johnson , after which I waited on M r Barber Barbour , & obtained the use of...
26712Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 11 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor by M r Brokenbrough has been duly received. I have shewn it to some members for the purpose of shewing evincing the willingness of the board to meet all charges. But the letter of Oldham made no impression here; and I believe it was met so promptly, there has been no attempt to use it for mischievous purposes. It deserves, in my opinion, no serious notice from any one. M r...
26713Joseph 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
26714Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 1 st inst is now before me. With the nature & object of the petition you allude to, I was already acquainted from having received an explanatory letter from your grandson , covering a copy of the remonstrance. I had also conversed as well with him as with m r maury . I advised m r maury without delay to have an interview with his colleague , and to endeavor to obtain his...
26715Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have got thus far on my way home, and entrust to the neighbouring post office, your letters on Finance, which I hope will safely reach you. I must beg your pardon for having detained them longer than the period of my engagement. My private business in the lower country took up much more time than I had anticipated, and I was compelled to keep your letters thus long in order thoroughly to...
26716Joseph 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
26717From Joseph Carrington Cabell to John Hartwell Cocke, 4 July 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Archer carried my mare down to M r Strange’s to-day, and will get to Bremo to-night on his way home. I have taken the liberty to desire M r Strange whom I saw yesterday to send the mare over to Bremo when he thinks it will be proper to do so , and I will send down for her as soon as you will be good enough to inform me of it, when I hope you will do when she gets to Bremo. I believe M r...
26718To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 6 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of April 15th reached me on yesterday at this place. It had gone on to Warminster when I last had the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello, and was forwarded thence by the mail to Norfolk. I cannot perceive any good ground of objection to the purchase of M r Perry’s land, in the manner you propose. On the contrary, I give to the measure my most hearty approbation. I am very...
26719Joseph 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...
26720Joseph 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
26721Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Cocke will inform you that the cause of my failure to attend at the University on yesterday, was that I had not sufficiently recovered from the severe & tedious illness by which I have been unhappily visited. My convalescence is much slower than I expected, and is further prolonged by successive relapses. Some days past, I was taken with the ague & fever, which often follows in the rear...
26722To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 13 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 16 ult. covering M r Madison’s letter to you of the 20 th was handed to me by Capt Peyton in Richmond in the latter part of the month. I have heretofore declined writing in reply, because I have entertained the hope of visiting you as desired, in which event a written answer would be unnecessary. Nothing, I assure you, could have been more agreeable to M rs Cabell & myself than...
26723Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not deemed it necessary to write you in reply to your letter relative to the charter of W m & Mary College , because the passage of the University Bill rendered it unnecessary. But altho’ I shall see you on the first monday in next month, yet it becomes necessary that I should say a few words to you at this time. The Bill concerning the appropriation of the Literary Fund , by which the...
26724Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you hastily by a late mail a short letter containing the substance of our proceedings respecting those Bills in which you felt a particular interest. A more particular statement may not be unacceptable to you. Capt: Miller ’s Bill passed by in the Senate by a vote of 12 to ab t 5. after an elaborate discussion, in which not only the merits of the particular claim, but the general law...
26725To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 13 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope no apology is necessary for the liberty which I take in sending you the Book accompanying this; as it may throw some light on one of the principal characters who stands accused of an agency in the late conspiracy in the west, and may cast a distant & feeble ray on the conspiracy itself. For some time past, in reading the accounts of the transactions at New Orleans, my eye has been...
26726Joseph 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
26727Joseph 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...
26728Joseph 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...
26729Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on this day week relative to our views & movements as to the University to that date. On the 11 th ins t I directed the public printer to send you a copy of the Accountant’s Report on the Literary Fund , on the last page of which you will see that the Revenue of the Fund barely satisfies existing appropriations. This fact was announced to me on the
26730Joseph 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...
26731Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I expected when I wrote you from Williamsburg , that my Servant would have come up with me from that place on the 5 th inst; but one of my horses being unavoidably detained, I was compelled to leave him behind; & was consequently disappointed, for the moment, in sending him on with your books. I was only waiting for his arrival, when to-day, I fell in with Gen l Moore , who told me he should...
26732Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving the friendly & obliging letter which you wrote me on the 27th of last month , together with the one enclosed, from Judge Cooper of Pennsylvania , to yourself, of 10 th of May : & I feel some anxiety of mind least the tardiness of my reply, m to you, may be the cause of procrastinating yours to Judge Cooper much longer than may be agreeable to you. But as I did...
26733To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 16 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th ins t was delivered to me by my servant on the 11 th I deferred writing till now because I thought my answer would not reach you as soon by the mail from Warminster, as by that from Columbia, which place I shall pass in a few hours from this time on my journey to the lower country. I was very much pleased at the limitation of the foreign professors to a moiety of the...
26734Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 16 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I received in due time by the mail, your favor respecting M r Read ’s Miller ’s petition: and I have deferred writing to you, till the fate of that bill, & of the bill respecting the Central College , could be ascertained, so far as it depended on the House of Delegates . Both these bills arrived in the Senate this day: and I have had them committed, and shall take all the care of them in the...
26735To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 18 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many thanks for your favor of 4 th ins t covering your plan of a Jail. Reports of your being indisposed had induced me to repent that I had written to you, & to resign the expectation of hearing from you. I wished to fulfil in the best manner practicable the promise I had made to the Court. I therefore wrote to M r Peck with whom I was acquainted, inviting himself & his partner M...
26736To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 17 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 21 st inst I shall take passage in the steam boat for the city of Washington. My stay there will be short, but I will endeavor to collect & bring you all the information I can obtain relative to the claim of the University. You are the best judge of the measures proper to ensure the recovery of this just debt: but I beg leave to urge the importance of letters addressed by yourself & M r...
26737Joseph 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...
26738To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 29 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the gratification to enclose you by our friend M r Garrett a copy of the University act of the present session. It passed the Senate unanimously. Attempts were made to amend it: but we were determined to pass the bill as it came to us; because our friends in the other House warned us of the imminent danger of its return. I was ill in bed when the proviso to which you so much object...
26739To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that our efforts have eventuated in success, and that the College party have been defeated in the House of Delegates by a majority of 24. You need not give yourself any further trouble on this subject. Our friends & myself concur in thinking that it would be improper to bring in the bill for dividing the funds of the College. The public mind is not prepared for so bold...
26740Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you very sincerely for your letter of 28 Dec: and am mortified at the circumstance of my having been the cause of so much trouble to you. I am happy to inform you that our prospects are now very favourable. Every thing is understood, every thing is arranged. Our bill will be introduced in the Committee of Schools & Colleges in a day or two. We ought to have had a select Committee to...
26741Joseph 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...
26742Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 26 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have at length procured from the Editor of the Enquirer & now return your original Letter to M r Carr . Its publication, in my opinion, was well timed, and has had produced a happy effect on the measures of the assembly . We have appropriated all our U. States’ debt, except $600,000, to the purposes of education , and have required the President & Directors of the Literary Fund , to report...
26743To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 10 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 7 th inst has this moment been received. I was already sitting down to add to my last letter. I am distressed to inform you that leave was given on yesterday to bring in your bill by a majority of only 4. I was out among my friends last evening, and I learn from them that there is no doubt of its passage, but that the majority will be considerably less then as lately expected. I...
26744Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 1 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much concerned not to be able to attend the meeting of the Visitors or the Albemarle election, in consequence of an indisposition contracted in travelling thro the late severe weather. I hope my friends will make known the cause of my absence from the election, and make my apology to the people. I shall endeavor to call on you on my way down the country. I profit of the opportunity by M r...
26745Joseph 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...
26746To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 6 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this late last evening & fell over one of the banks and got much injured in several parts of my frame, insomuch that I can scarcely write. I have just seen my brother, who has received a reply from M r Wirt, from which it appears conclusively that he would not accept the law chair. M r Lomax therefore is the Professor, & the system will remain as you desired. Privately owned.
26747To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of this morning, I forgot to mention that I had sent you by the mail an extra Copy of the Documents relative to our interest claim transmitted by the Governor to the Assembly at the commencement of the session. M r Loyall strongly recommends that you should send these documents to M r Tazewell with a note of request that he would pay particular attention to the subject. It is now...
26748Joseph 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...
26749Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this place on the 17 th ins t and write now merely to apprize you of my arrival. I returned to Williamsburg from the Northern Neck on the 6 th ins t and immediately wrote to a friend in this place to ascertain whether the usual recess of the Senate would take place. I counted on a recess as a matter of course, & was willing to avail myself of it, in order that I might enjoy some rest...
26750Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 5 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
After a long detention on the road by the deep snow that fell in the latter part of the month of January I arrived here on 5 th ult, since which I have had the pleasure to receive your favor of 5 th Jan: together with the papers enclosed. you have imposed on me new obligations by this communication. The particular posture of my domestic affairs at the time I reached home, and the new...
26751Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I most heartily regret to be under the necessity of again apologizing for my absence from the meeting of the Visitors . The cause of my disappointment is an inflamed ulcer on one of my ears, the character & tendency of which Gen l Cocke will more particularly explain to you. I am pursuing a course recommended by two Physicians in Richmond , and thus far approved by Doct: Smith of this place....
26752Joseph 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...
26753Joseph 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...
26754To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 25 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place yesterday, on my return from Lancaster and have to-day had an interview with M r Loyall, in the course of which he shewed me the copy which he had received of your circular of the 13th ins t relative to the nomination of Judge Dade as Professor of law in the University. Considering it unnecessary to defer writing till my return home some two or three weeks hence, and...
26755Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bill respecting the Turnpike from Rockfish Gap was this day postponed indefinitely in the House of Delegates . Col: yancey , as I am informed by M r Thweat , did every thing in his power to push the Bill thro’ the House , after having consented to lay it on the table for the Balance of the session. The Bill for calling taking the sense of the people as to the expediency of calling a...
26756Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your favor of 28 th ult: and feel much gratified that you approve the view which I took of the subject of the primary schools. I am very much pleased at your suggestion of a method by which a meeting of our board may be deferred till the regular period in the month of April. It would be very inconvenient for me to attend an intermediate meeting, and the method you suggest will...
26757Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not write you this day week because the posture of affairs had undergone no change, and I had nothing to communicate worthy of your attention. I thank you for your two favors of 14 th & 25 th ult: both of which I have shewn to many friends. Since the date of my last , M r Johnson has suggested to me an expedient, perhaps freer from objection than any heretofore thought of since the...
26758To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 30 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been greatly relieved by finding from a Norfolk paper that the Ship Competitor was at Plymouth on the 5 th Dec.—I had given them up as lost in the gale of the last of October, & myself almost to despair. I now hope all is safe.—I think there is a majority for moving the College: but I am confident the plan of splitting up the funds will succeed, if the opposite party should not be able...
26759Joseph 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 .
26760Joseph 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...