Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters

My Dear Friend

University Aug 31st 1825

Though tardy in complying with your wishes perhaps it may still not be too late and that this may reach you before you send for us which should it you will do me a great favour to answer by Jessee when you send for us. Since you left us I have not made much progress in the Italian and Spanish owing to our not being able to procure the books [. . .] necessary to keep up with the class who are much more advanced than either of us nor I do I expect to be able to procure them for some time as yet. I intend attending both the regular [. . .] class in the morning and the private class in the evening which will occupy about four hours of lecture every day. I find myself in the same predicament as Philip [. . .] respecting my Mathematical studies in which I find a difficulty to comprehend the lecturer being not well grounded in the fundamental rules of Algebra [. . .] owing to my have made an a [. . .]. I should ask him to give us private lectures were it not that he is in ill health and that he has to attend to his own class and Mr Longs also which fully occupies all his spare time I shall therefore commence by myself a review of all what I have skipped over at the same time I attend the lectures which I can assure you will leave me very little time for reading history to which I have never paid much attention to and consequently I wish to devote much of my time to it. As Philip has given you a pretty satisfactory account of Genl La Fayette’s reception here I shall only h add that I had the pleasure to dine with him also at the University where I met with my old friend Mr Munroe

I received a two Letters not long since one from my father and the other from my Mother who are in good health and continue as always reminding me to remember them to you and all their friends in virginia and particularly to their friends Mr and Mrs Faulcon who I understand from your letter to Philip are at Bremo. I received a Letter from my little friend Daniel Avery lately who is in Berlin, Connecticut he favours me very regularly with his correspondence and is one of my warmest friends. I have within the last week answered all the letters I received from my friends so as to ballance accounts I must in the interim thank you for the fine basket of fruit you were so good as to send us they were very much bruised particularly the grapes but nevertheless we relished them very much as we had not tasted any so fine this year. I must now wind up [. . .] by ass giving you new assurances of my friendship and subscribing myself