1 Jany 1819 Recvd of N Barksdale proctor to the C College for three negroes by name Sam Nelson & Squire his bond for three Hundred & ten dollars with Jas H Terrill & Smith Cock security

I have but a moment My Dearest Virginia to answer your welcome and affectionate letter particularly the more welcome as I have not yet received the one from Mrs Tinsley’s. I am very sorry you persist in returning so soon, for as much as I wish to see you I am not selfish enough to sacrifice what...

a constitution has been acquired which, tho neither of us think perfect, yet both consider as competent to render our fellow-citizens the happiest and the securest on whom the sun has ever shone.

to do wrong is a melancholy resource. even where retaliation renders it indispensably necessary. it is better to suffer much from the scalpings, the incensions conflagrations, the rapes and rapine of savages, than to countenance and strengthen such barbarisms by retortion. I have ever deemed it...

this free exercise of reason is all I ask for the vindication of the character of Jesus. we find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. first a ground work of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms, & fabrications. intermixed...

I have been here for a week and have had the blues all the time, It is indeed a miserable place and can hardly be borne with after spending a month at monticello, however “sic fata voluissent” I dont know how long I am to stay, an age I expect if I am to wait for the university. I think I must...

Provided the work is given me at the university I would bind myself to execute the same in the manner requiered on the following tarms viz. I would be willing to obligate myself to do the Carpenter work & Joinery’s work of a Hotel & Dormitarys attach’d there to at the prices hearetofore...

yours of the 13th inst came to hand after 7 days’ passage. No Wonder the Cadets are so anxious to hear from their “Army of Observation.” Donelson will receive a “Bulletin” with the same mail that conveys this to you: containing “a victory of over our opponents” and one which if you will...

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...

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...