I have done all in my power to make Gilmer’s stay here pleasant—but you well know how impossible it is for a man to see any thing properly in a day or even a week where there are so many things to call his attention at the same moment. He was accompanied by a Mr Wellford, of Fredericksburg, who...

I have your letter of Aug 1.many are the complaints which I have made against you, but your pardon is accorded:—so many things occur to me which I should be glad to say to you that I am at a loss to begin—take some of them as they arise. I am glad that you stood upon points with Key —; he is one...

I hoped to have heard, this morning, the result of the Trustees meeting—: who is the successful candidate? is it Walker? Since writing in his favor I have heard that Harker and Nulty probably were competitors; there can be no doubt that these men, as mathematicians, are far before Walker—; but...

My anxiety about the choice of a mathematical professor has led me to ask many questions, of late, of Mr Farrar, and from him I learn that Mr Munroe has written to President Kirkland, desiring him to name any individual whom he thinks peculiarly qualified for the situation: he (Mr Farrar,) also...

I wrote you yesterday, and took occasion of a line on business, to Brockenbrough, to enclose yours mine, and spare you postage for a letter which, on other terms, I would not have sent: This morning brought me yours from Montpelier, and although I have complained of you of late, I nevertheless...

At length I date from this place, dear to me from many causes:—as the scene of years of great happiness, and as arising in my mind recollections of Cambridge in England, where I passed the pleasantest hours spent abroad.We effected our removal, here, without difficulty, and are delightfully...

Bacons Advancement of Learning 1825 Hall’s Latin Roots 1825 Gymnastic Exercises Bentham on Codefication 1817 do on Morals & Legislation 2V 1823 do on Government 1823 do on Book of Fallacies 1824 do Theorie Tir des Pienes et/des recompenses.— 2V 1818 Above you have list of books just received...

I have hastily answered Gen. Cocke’s letter; and, as he desired, direct it to yourself, as Secretary &c. We were very glad to learn, by Virginia’s last, how good little Martha has become; and that Mr was on her way: I trust Jefferson will come as far as Boston; we look for them on Friday Eveg...

A little miscellaneous work is about to appear in New York which will contain among other things a notice of old President Adams furnished by one of the literati of New England. a gentleman of New York, a man of Talents & a republican, has been applied to by the publisher of the work in...

We are arrived, and meet only with disappointment: after leaving you, yesterday, we suffered very much from the heat, and did not reach Mrs Tingley’s before 7½ o’Clock. having rode the last mile or two in the rain. we were off again this morning at 5—and breakfasted at Goochland Ct House. it was...