1From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead Burwell, 20 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. was recieved last night, & I learn with sincere concern the illness you have experienced, & that, tho’ mending, you may possibly not be able to join me before your services will be called for in Richmond. I should still more however regret this accident were it to become a motive for your not resuming your station at all. I shall be happy to see you at Washington as...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead Burwell, 15 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 26. was duly recieved, as also the correspondence therein referred to. mr Coles delivered me to-day your request of a copy of the Parl. Manual for yourself & another for the Speaker. I therefore send one to each of you in separate packages by this post. you will have seen an account in all the papers, (with so many details, as to make one forget for a moment that they never...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead Burwell, 17 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Aug. 7. from Liberty never got to my hands till the 9th. inst. about the same time I recieved the Enquirer in which Decius was so judiciously answered. the writer of that paper observed that the matter of Decius consisted 1st. of facts. 2dly. of inferences from these facts: that he was not well enough informed to affirm or deny his facts, & he therefore examines his inferences, and in...
4From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead Burwell, 16 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The interest which you were so kind as to take in mr Randolph’s sickness will I am sure render it acceptable to you to learn that his fever left him finally in the morning of the day on which you left us, and that he convalesced regularly from that period though slowly on account of the quantity of blood taken from him. we did not leave Washington till the 7th. inst. he might have ventured a...
5From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead Burwell, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friendly intimations to me as to matters respecting myself, never need an apology. I know them always to proceed from the kindest motives, & am thankful for them. I have had too many proofs of the interest you take in what concerns me to have a doubt of this. but the story from Richmond is one of those unfounded falsehoods which assail me regularly in whatever direction I move. mr...
6Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 6 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 22. came to hand last night, with the papers of mr Graham inclosed. of all mechanical machines existing, the steam engine is that which I have the least studied. the principle we all understand; and the structure of the original one I understood when at College. but have never since paid the least attention to the multiplied improvements which have changed nearly every thing...
7Thomas 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...
8Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 23 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The interest you were so kind as to take in my unlucky engagement for Col o Nicholas makes it a duty in me to give you some information on the subject. the specific liens on his property for non-usurious debts are inconsiderable, not exceedin g 30, or 40,000.D. he is determined to postpone all his usurious debts being much the greatest part of what he owes, and no doubt exists but that his...
9Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 17 October 1819 (SJL description) (Jefferson Papers)
[ Monticello , 17 Oct. 1819 . SJL entry reads “sickness. invitn to come on to Mont o .” Letter not found.]
10Thomas Jefferson to William A. Burwell, 25 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In the execution of a law for surveying our coast, a mr Hassler was employed, and procured from London in 1815 a set of the necessary mathematical and Astronomical instruments. the survey I am told has been lately relinquished, and possibly the government having no particular use for them, might be willing to accomodate our University with these instruments, at a price reasonable for them and...