While we were at the Point it rained much of the time ... Two or three of the intelligent men that I found here spoke so confidently of the merits of a picture that they had, of Jefferson, by Sully, that I thought I would relieve both M[athews] and myself by a visit to the library. You know my...

The loss of Mr. Jefferson is one over which the whole world will mourn. He was one of those ornaments and benefactors of the human race, whose death forms an epoch, and creates a sensation throughout the whole circle of civilized man ... To me he has been more than a father, and I have ever loved...

Yesterday I attended the funeral solemnities in Faneuil Hall in honour of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The oration of Mr. Webster was worthy of his fame, and what is much more, was worthy of the august occasion.

Passed the day in reading Jefferson’s letters. I cannot say but the perusal of this book has elevated the man in my estimation. He discovers an equanimity of temper, and a philosophical tone of mind, that are admirable. Some of his remarks are of the first order, and nothing can be better than...

A death-bed Adieu. Th:J. to MR....

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. that body, like Gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, & unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulphing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. the recent...

but time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch.

The whole college has been put in great consternation...

At a meeting of the Faculty of the University of Virginia on the 20th day of December 1826 The Chairman Presented to the Faculty a letter from the Proctor giving information that certain Hotel keepers had during the last Session been in the habit of playing at games of chance with the Students in...

Although old statues adorn the Hall on all sides Edmund Drummond, never heard of any Hotel keeper playing with students at Cards—last session before last not last session saw he thinks a hotel keeper drinking in dormitory with students— Chapman—Has heard that students have played with Hotel...