Being compelled to build a Stable for purposes indispensable, upon the Lot I occupy costing Sixty two Dollars and fifty Cents—I beg leave to ask of you, if it be not reasonable that the proctor be directed to deduct the same from my rent

I am requested by the Faculty to lay the inclosed letters before you, and to state that the Faculty have declined licensing the individual until they learn from you the amount of the emolument which will accrue to him in the event of his appointment.

I beg to call your attention to the undermentioned subjects. The two last have been included in the suggestions submitted to your notice by the Faculty, but as they are immediately connected with my department, & are of much importance to me, I have thought it not improper to bring them...

At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia, held at the University on Monday, Oct. 2d 1826, at which were present James Madison, James Breckenridge, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke, Chapman Johnson, and James Monroe. The board being apprised of the death of Thomas Jefferson Rector...

I arrived here late last evening & should have rode up to Monticello this morning, but upon my arrival was greeted with the intelligence that my Brother had been suspended—I intend waiting on some of the Faculty today with the view of ascertaining whether they will reconsider his Case—if they...

I arrived here on Friday at 7 A.M. and am ready to proceed to the Natural Bridge tomorrow. We were last night awoke by a party of students with music who entered the house and called for drink it might have been 3 o’clock this morning (to wake a bull). They leisurely sat doubt down with their...

Julian & Mary were christened on thursday last. Grandmother B. & I represented you & Virginia as sponsors for Mary. They are to leave home in a day or two: Mary to be placed at Mde Valframbert’s boarding school New Orleans & Julian to go to Bardstown Kentucky, where he will enter...

I have recieved Montgomerys debt. & I have paid Dr Y. & My Postage account. which was $32.42 this is a smart bill aded to $14 that I paid for J. Margaret when I came here. you must tell Needles to make the bedstead out of Sasafras timber if he can get it. but if he cannot he must make it...

Ellen is still very sick this morning not at all able to stand to try on her peticoats this has brought to mind a subject that has been talked over between us, considering how often she is sick and how violent her attacks are, that she will pass through all the great towns making some stay in...

I have never told you of the nice little cuddy that has become my haunt, and from which I am now writing. do you recollect the place over the parlour Portico into which the dome room opened? since the columns to the portico have been completed, Grand Papa has had the great work bench removed from...