1José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the wishes you expressed in your Letter of June Last , i have invited M r Gilmer to come with me to Monticello and to keep himself ready by the end of this month, in order to Leave Winchester , when i should pass by. He writes to me that the courts are sitting there almost all October, and that he will be in the impossibility of quitting the town till November. He seems to be...
2José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You must not be offended if your central college is in some measure become one of my hobby horses. The prospect of seeing a seminary for the American youth unshackled from the trammels of clerical influence and direction, and where really useful sciences may be induced into young minds is a vision so congenial to my feelings, that i cannot abstain from frequently reminding it, and taking a...
3José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As i shall most probably very soon take a northern direction, which is pointed to me by what i have to do, i will in consequence be deprived of the pleasure i promised to myself of paying you in May the annual tribute of my personal respects; my pilgrimage to Monticello i must transfer to the autumnal months. But the American born Marrons would lose the season of being sown, and i have the...