Since my last Ragland has had from the Chief o Engineers some avowal of sentiments which I mention because I think them, coming as they do from that source, of some consequence. Col. Armistead has heretofore been a pretty warm opposer of the committee on the same principles as Majr Thayer...

1 Jany 1819 Reced of N Barksdale as proctor to the C College his bond with G Dickerson—Security for the Hire of Landry— for one hundred & 19 Dollars to be paid by the 25 Decr 1819 or bear Interest from this date

Although I have not time to answer your letter at length my dearest Mother yet the subjects of it are so interesting, that I write a few lines mainly to let you know that I have recieved it. thank god the most urgent of my dear fathers debts can now be paid off, and after the sale of Varina we...

sit Sally to some work, I do not wish her to remain idle Every one of our mutual acquaintance here enquired most particularly after you, and I hear from all parties that you were more admired last winter than any one who has been in Richmond within the memory of it’s inhabitants, the general...

I find from the letters recieved from your Mama and yourself this week that neither of you recieved my last— The old mode of keeping christmas seems to be going generally out of fashion—It has changed very much since my recollection Formerly all classes of society kept it as a kind of feast—It is...

My first letter this year is to acknowledge yours of the 20th December which dissipated in some degree the unpleasant feelings your former letter excited, I hope most sincerely, that there will be no more rails, or heart burning’s against those who are appointed to Command you, for if they...

For your classical greetings on the return of xmas and the auspicious beginning of a new year I give you most humble & hearty thanks. That your money & beer are what may be called good things I do however reluctantly (as Serjeant Williams used to say) “candidly confess.” For that flower...

This will be handed you by my freind Dabney Cosby Esqr who is on his way to Richmond and who if the law of the last Session of Assembly respecting the establishment of a University in this State shall be carried into effect and shall be Established at the central Colledge Near your place will be...

What can be the matter with you. I know you are not dead. you certainly cannot be affronted. your children I am sure can spare you an half hour to write to me: so your reason for not doing it I cannot imagine. it is not want of subject for besides what relates to yourself which is always...

but I see nothing in this renewal of the game of ‘Robin’s alive’ but a general demoralization of the nation, a filching from industry it’s honest earnings, wherewith to build up palaces, and raise gambling stock for swindlers and shavers, who are to close too their career of piracies by...

From your not writing by the last mail I suppose that poor little Pat has taken the measles, but even if she has I think you might have written or have made Mr R. do so, for as you were not well when you wrote last we cannot help feeling a little mortified uneasy at your silence. We received a...

Site of the University. Mode of Center of Territory will be spoken of. It If this were a proper criterion, it shd certainly be the center of the habitable territory. If the immense tracts of barren mountains beyond the Ridge be thrown out of view, as they might the center of territory wd probably...