Thomas Jefferson to Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 26 March 1823
To Thomas J. O’Flaherty
Monto Mar. 26. 23.
Sir
The papers which I now return have been delayed only long enough to be communicated to mr Madison & returned by him. they are advantageous testimonials certainly of your familiarity with the languages in which they are written.1 but until the debt of the University (180,000.D) shall be discharged and it’s funds liberated, the institution cannot be opened, and the uncertainty when this will be effected, renders it in the opinion of the visitors premature to act at all on the subject of professors. after the debt shall be discharged they will allow themselves one year additional to procure professors. accept my respectful salutns
Th:J
FC (ViU: TJP); with TJ’s Notes on Plantation Cloth Distribution, [ca. 26 Mar. 1823], on verso; in TJ’s hand; endorsed by TJ as a letter to “O Flaherty Thos J.” Enclosures: enclosures to O’Flaherty to TJ, 10 Mar. 1823, not printed there. Enclosed in James Monroe to TJ, 12 Jan. 1824. Extract printed in Philadelphia National Gazette and Literary Register, 30 Sept. 1826.
1. National Gazette extract ends here.
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- O’Flaherty, Thomas John; seeks professorship search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; and faculty recruitment search
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