1Editorial Note (Jefferson Papers)
As the 1818–19 legislative session approached, Jefferson and his allies prepared to submit to the Virginia General Assembly the 4 Aug. 1818 Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commissioners , which recommended that Central College be the site of the University of Virginia . On 18 Nov. 1818 Joseph C. Cabell wrote to Jefferson
2Thomas Jefferson’s Bill to Establish a University, [between 19 November and 14 December 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
A Bill for the establishment of an University. Be it declared by the General assembly of Virginia that the conveyance of the lands and other property appur t aining to the Central college in the county of Albemarle which has been executed by the Proctor thereof under authority of the subscribers and founders , to the President and Directors of the literary fund , is hereby accepted, for...