I beg to call your attention to the undermentioned subjects. The two last have been included in the suggestions submitted to your notice by the Faculty, but as they are immediately connected with my department, & are of much importance to me, I have thought it not improper to bring them...
It is with regret that I have to intrude myself upon you at your present meeting, but I conceive it to be a duty I owe to this Institution and to myself, to report to you in some way, the situation of the Tenement I occupy: The cellar to my Hotel is five feet below the surface of the earth;...
Being compelled to build a Stable for purposes indispensable, upon the Lot I occupy costing Sixty two Dollars and fifty Cents—I beg leave to ask of you, if it be not reasonable that the proctor be directed to deduct the same from my rent
At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia, held at the University on Monday, Oct. 2d 1826, at which were present James Madison, James Breckenridge, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke, Chapman Johnson, and James Monroe. The board being apprised of the death of Thomas Jefferson Rector...
I am requested by the Faculty to lay the inclosed letters before you, and to state that the Faculty have declined licensing the individual until they learn from you the amount of the emolument which will accrue to him in the event of his appointment.
In compliance with the request contained in yours of Septr 9. I have presented yr. drft for $250. to Gen. Dearborn, and retain the amo.—to be paid to Mr Willard as he shall require it. Your directions respecting the mode of introducing light &c into the clock-room shall be attended to—:...
With a caution that my slowness and total inexperience in the duties of which the board of Visitors tender me the discharge, will probably call for a full measure of indulgence; and with the grateful feelings which the mark of confidence is calculated to inspire, I accept the opportunity...
It is not without reluctance that I obtrude my individual concerns on your notice at any time, & more especially when your duties have been so laborious & important as at present. I can only say that if the business with which I am about to trouble you should interfere with higher objects...
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences have assigned to me the interesting duty of preparing & delivering on the 30. of this month a Discourse designed in respectful notice of their deceased ex President Mr Adams & their Associate Mr Jefferson. I am especially to consider them in...
Yr letter of 12th Sep. I have just received & being liable to no interruptions, the answer will soon be despatched. As I think you ought to make any sacrifice for the benefit of yr health a removal of yourself & “Dii Penates” to Burlington, if it would conduce to that important object,...
The arrival of my dear Neice and Nephew has indeed filled my bosom with pleasure indiscribable. I had been led to beleive you would not at this time afford me that gratification and felt real concern that with those so dear to my heart. I should be so much seperated—& feel in every thought on...
Mr Jefferson inherited a large estate, and his wife brought him a handsome fortune, but encumbered by British debts, of her father’s, to a great amount: to affect the payment of these Mr Jefferson sold a part of his property, & received the proceeds in depreciated paper money, which were of...
I recieved your letter dearest Ellen after a very sick night, occasioned I believe by a walk of about 20 minutes on the terrace, and although it has left me extremely languid, yet as the subject of it will admit of no delay I will try and recall to memory as many of the circumstances which have...
In my answers to the questions propounded I have endeavored to be explicit as the nature of the case would admit of. I hope they may prove satisfactory
Question 1st In the report of the Visitors of ’25, it is stated that the Library room was in a state of active preparation for the reception of the books, and that to effect this, 6000 Dollars of the library fund had been appropriated. Has this appropriation covered the object? Answer, 1 The work...
Your letter found me engaged with the papers relating to Mr Jefferson’s memoir. As I could not therefore immediately attend to it without pretermitting these; and as the time for communicating the report was distant enough to admit of a little delay, I contented myself with sending you word,...
my visit to Montpellier last week my dear sister prevented me from writing to you in regular turn as I should have done had I been at at home, I was sorry for it at the time but feel very well pleased at present to...
I have hastily answered Gen. Cocke’s letter; and, as he desired, direct it to yourself, as Secretary &c. We were very glad to learn, by Virginia’s last, how good little Martha has become; and that Mr was on her way: I trust Jefferson will come as far as Boston; we look for them on Friday Eveg...
mr. jefferson’s estate We cannot forbear inviting the attention of the reader to the advertisement of the intended sale of Mr. Jefferson’s property—We understand all that the Executor can controul has been brought forward for sale; and that the residue of the lands will be offered as soon as...
Will you oblige me so far as to deliver the two vols. sent by Mr R,—to your care, to Mr Jones at his Bookstore. they were sent to me by mistake, or in lieu, of another, but as I had them already on hand, I informed C. & H. that I should take this method of returning them.—I recieved a letter...
I have availed myself of the first opportunity that presented itself to perform an act so much wished for as well by Colo Randolph as his family and so congenial with my own feelings that of giving him public employment—It is as a Commissioner on the part of the U. States to run the dividing line...
I have yours of novr 1— Your letter-paper, to the amo. of half a ream, all he had, was sent to James, by Hilliard, at least a fortnight since: and Jefferson who left us this morning is the bearer of your shaving-brush, a cake of English shaving soap, a box of English tooth-brushes, and tooth...
I have been longing to write to you dearest sister, for some time; our only pleasure is in writing & recieving letters from Boston at present, but I have been so busy for some days past that I could not write. The day before yesterday a box was packed & despatched to you which when you...
We arrived here yesterday my dear Virginia sometime before sunset and as a post goes out tomorrow (the post goes from here to Lynchburg twice a week) I will write to you though I feel as stupid and unwilling to do any thing as I usually do after a journey. the day we left you was a very...
at last my dear sister we have quitted Monticello and are doing our best to reconcile ourselves to our change of abode, here we shall meet with kindness and comfort, and when time has lessened our regrets for all we have left, I hope we...