1Thomas Jefferson’s Circular to Prospective Donors to Central College, 4 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You have probably seen mentioned in the public papers that it is in contemplation to establish near Charlottesville a seminary of learning which shall embrace all the sciences deemed materially useful in the present age. towards this object the legislature has passed an act giving us a constitution nearly of our own choice, under the name of the Central College , making the Governor patron of...
2Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Harrison, 11 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your zeal for the establishment of a seminary of learning here procured the most liberal subscription from your county of any reci e ved except that in which the seminary is to be placed. the adoption of it for the University , requiring much greater preparation, has occasioned considerable delay of it’s opening, which is not to take plac e until April next this year being to be employed in...