Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

Your Letter of the 20th Ult came to hand sometime since and I should have answered it last saturday by Jessee had it been possible but I was obliged to defer it until the present moment when I could answer it more fully together with your requests in your joint Letter to me and Philip upon the subject of our religious duties. I thank you very kindly for the friendly advice you were so good as to give us and as an assurance of the obligation I feel myself under to you I shall endeavour to show you that your advice has not been spent uselessly: I must confess that I have always paid too little regard to the that all important subject of religion but I shall henceforward do as you desire me however irksome it may be. I shall now give you a sketch of my studies. In the first I shall let you know that I like my situation here tolerable well and my except that I begin to find my rooms rather more uncomfortable than they were when I first came here; but as winter is approaching I do not expect we will have much more warm weather. As respects Study I am not very well pleased for I find that the students of the University are yet very dissipated and idle and that it almost impossible for any one who has not a firm resolution to study to do so. As respects my teachers I am tolerable well satisfied they are all well qualified but I do not learn as much as I would elsewhere as I am as yet unacustomed to the new [. . .] mode of giving lessons by Lectures which I am not accustomed to. I promised you I think to study 8 hours in the day that I find too much these hot days and I content myself studying 6 hours which together with the time that I have to recite in takes up very near all my time my regular time of study is from 10 till one 2 Oclock and from 3 till five in the meanwhile I recite from 8 till 10 in the morning, and sometimes from 8 till 12 which is on tuesdays alone in which case to complete my six hours of study I study the whole of the evening I shall on [. . .] give you [. . .] a sketch of my course of studies—

I received sometime since the letter to the which you forwarded here from my father who says he sent you a duplicate of the check of he caused to be remitted to you by Mr Saul of New Orleans. sent you upon the Bank at Richmond it seems that as my letter has had been broken open and the duplicate was not in it I concluded that you did it [. . .] you took it out of the post office. [. . .] Remem[ber me?] to [. . .] all the family I am sincerely your friend and Relation