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...

I have received your letter of the 25th, and but being confined to the house by an attack of measles from which I am not entirely recovered, some little time may elapse before I can comply with your request in reference to the Publisher. It will give me very great pleasure to aid you in any way...

I am very happy in being able, at last, to congratulate you on the success of the Bill for the establishment of an University at the Central college. It was carried, on yesterday, by in the House of Delegates by the overwhelming & unexpected majority of 141 to 28 ... Among the many sources of...

I recd. yours of the 9th inst.—The papers enclosed I handed immediately to the auditor—If you do not find it convenient to send money here—I can pay it for you— You will have of the knowledge of our procedings from the Enquirer than I could give you in a dozen letters—You have seen that the...

Left Bremo accompanied by Genl Taylor his Son Robt & nephew Wm Eyre for the Springs—reached Charlottesville to a late dinner. Visited my friend Alexr Garret who accompanied us in the Eveng. as far as the central College; which we found progressing slowly towards completion—The first...

I have become an applicant for Employment at the Central College and am told It is necssary to furnish satisfactory testimony of my Qualifications as a Man & Workman. If you have it in your Power to be serviceable to me in that respect I shall at all times be ready to acknowledge the favor.—a...

This will be handed you by my freind Dabney Cosby Esqr who is on his way to Richmond and who if the law of the last Session of Assembly respecting the establishment of a University in this State shall be carried into effect and shall be Established at the central Colledge Near your place will be...

My neighbour Mr Dabney Cosby informs me he has some idea of makeing proposals to undertake a portion of the Brick work to be done at the central college, and as he is a stranger in your place, I take the liberty of introduceing him to you & thro’ you to such persons as may be authourised to...

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...

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...