Yours of the 24th curt is now before me & contents observed—agreeable to your request hand above statement our little transactions to date—I have made no further collections on a/c the University, & I fear it will be difficult to effect others in these times of difficulty—I do not know to...

Statement of the Quantity of Work done by Stone cutters by the day previous to January 1st 1820— Work Executed which at our present prices would be A part of the above work was executed by G. Raggi Quarrying acct

Nov: 1 1819 Recd by draft on the bursar of the U.Va five dollars for washing for M. & G Raggi—

The depression of the price of produce, the suspension of the sale of property, some heavy disappointments, & the entire loss of confidence throughout the U.S. imposes upon me and every man in debt the obligation to husband his means so as to do the least injustice to his creditors. It cannot...

On my return from a visit to Aunt Cary, I found your letter of the 10th, my dear Mrs Madison, waiting for me at Monticello—we should have experienced no sort of inconvenience had you detained the books the whole winter, for we have all read them. a long absence from home must plead my excuse for...

A. S. Brockenbrough Esqr P.U.Va Please to Pay to Capt Merreweather’s black Man Charles fourteen dollars for three days hauling $14

Pay to Alexander Garrett twenty five dollars on account of board furnished M & J Raggi at your requist

When you wrote yours of april 20th you little imagined that at the very time I was mounted on a large & warlike black moving with a lofty pace to Georgia with John Patterson to take possession of another el-dorado as full of promise as the first. Yet such was the fact. We moved by a pretty...

If any man say I have abated one jot of my love for Winchester and all that therein is, call him “a liar & a son of darkness.” The recollection of the pleasant days we had there is still fresh in my memory—no fortune can extinguish it—and I shall give you the proof some day yet. I felt for...

That all the bricks for the principal buildings shall be moulded in single moulds lined with copper— That in all cases of out side walling, experienced & competent workmen only shall be employed, & in no case shall young & inexperienced workmen or apprentices be permited to lay bricks...