1Thomas Jefferson to William Davenport, 2 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I some time ago forwarded a telescope to Doctor Robert Patterson with a request to put it into good hands to be repaired. he informs me he delivered it to you, and that the price for repairing it for land observations (which will be sufficient) will be 10. Dollars. I now inclose you a 10.D. bill of the US. bank at Richmond , the only kind of the US. denomination I could procure. you will have...
2Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 2 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 26. came to hand by our last mail, and I now inclose you the three blanks for renewal. mr Yancey answered my letters enjoining him to get down his flour immediately by saying that the price of the moment for carriage was so exorbitant that he had venture d to wait awhile in the hope of a fall. he says also that his tobacco is in considerable forwardness for sending down. I...
3Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 2 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 23. was recieved the day before yesterday, and I was quite mortified to learn that my telescope had been delivered you without the letter of explanation which accompanied it. it must have placed me in an awkward attitude before you. on the preceding page of is a copy of that letter; and to lesson the trouble I occasion you with this commission I inclose a letter for mr...
4Thomas Jefferson to James H. McCulloch, 9 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago a letter of Oct. 24. from de Bure freres , booksellers of Paris , referring to one of Oct. 1. which should have accompanied the box of books you were so kind as to recieve & forward me. this letter of Oct. 1. undoubted ly covered the invoice , & has miscarried; and as their expectation that I have recieved it may prevent their sending a duplicate, the inclosed letter to...
5Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 14 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to mr Ritchie for the acts of assembly of the sessions of 1816–17 and of 1817–18 to be forwarded by mail and to be considered as a regular subscriber for them hereafter . if placed in account with his newspapers mr Gibson will always pay for them at the same time. he salutes mr Ritchie with frdshp & respect Dft ( MHi
6Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th was rec d yesterday. the appointment of Visitors of the University is entirely unexceptionable; the only fear is that the distance of Gen l Breckenridge & mr Taylor will render their attendances uncertain. I should have been sorry indeed if either yourself or Gen l Cocke had been left out:
7Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Successive circumstances too long to be detailed in a letter, have prevented me hitherto for p from proposing a meeting of the Visitors of the College . that of the Visitors of the University being postponed to the 29 th of March renders our immediate meeting indispensable. I therefore propose to you to be at mr Madison ’s on in the forenoon of Friday next the 26 th
8Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 12 th has been duly recieved, and the pamphlet it covered has been sent to mr Minor . the late day to which the Governor has fixed the 1 st meeting of the Visitors of the University (the last Monday in March) renders a meeting of the College visitors immediately necessary, some measures of high importance to the institution not admitting that delay; & the law having authorised us...
9Thomas Jefferson to David Watson, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The act for establishing the University being now past and authorising the Visitors of the Central College to continue to exercise their functions until the actual meeting of their successors , which will not be till the 29 th of March, it has become indispensable to have a meeting. there are measures requiring the authority of a board, which if delayed to that date would lose us a whole year....
10Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8 th is recieved with my acc t from July 10. to that day. these accounts alone enable me to settle my flour rents with those who owe them, and to know if they have delivered all which should be delivered. in proceeding to this examination for the last year, I am stopped short by a chasm in the acc ts which I possess from the 13 th of April to the 10 th of July. for this...
11Thomas Jefferson to LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 21 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been unfortunate the last two years in the produce of my farms, and when the seasons fail us the farmer has no other resource. the circumstances too which have lately disturbed the operations of the banks reach even those who do not use that res recourse , by the pressure it brings on them from those who do. the payment of my last instalment to the house of my friends Van Staphorsts and...
12Thomas Jefferson to Fontaine Maury, 21 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the Talavera wheat you have been so kind as to send me, which has been safely recieved. the torpidity of age having detached me from all pursuits of that kind, I have put it into the hands of my son in law Col o Randolph , and of my grandson , our best farmers in this neighborhood who will give it a fair & skilful trial. I am always rejoiced to learn the health and wellf...
13Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After writing the inclosed letter of yesterday your’s of the 18 th came to hand, informing me of the proposed curtailments of the US. bank . until I recieve your answer to the inclosed I cannot make a correct estimate of my funds & engagements. yet certainly to meet the suddenness of the curtailment I must avail myself of the discount which Col o Nicholas supposes can be had, and which will...
14Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, 22 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On settling up the affairs of the year I find I shall again be mortifyingly deficient in meeting the demands which 3 years of war, and 4. years of Goodman & Darnell have accumulated on me . an unwillingness to break in on testi testamentary provisions made for my family has hitherto prevented my relieving myself, by some sale of property, from the pain of witholding the money of others which...
15Enclosure: Thomas Appleton’s Agreement to Hire Giacomo Raggi and Michele Raggi, 17 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Per l’Atto presente benche privato, da valere, e tenere come se fosse un Publico Instrumento, apparisca e sia noto Qualmente Fra l’Illmo Sig Tommaso Appleton Console Generale degli Stati Uniti d’America in Livorno , ed in questa Parte nella Qualità di Incaricato dal Sig Tommaso Jefferson di Virginia in America da una, ed i Sig i Michele Raggi , di Condizione Scultore Ornatista, e Jacopo Raggi...
16Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, [ca. 26 February 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Cabell is requested to lay the inclosed proceedings of his Collegues before the Governor & Council for the exercise of their power of Controul, should they consider any part of them as requiring. RC ( Vi : RG 79, House of Delegates, Speaker, Executive Communications); undated. Tr (
17Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 26 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
We The subscribers, Visitors of the Central College , having been specially called to meet on the 26 th day of Feb. 1819, and authorised by the act of the legislature , now in session, for establishing the University of Virginia , to continue the exercise of our former functions, and to fulfill the duties of our successors, Visitors of the sd University , until their first actual meeting, have...
18Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return yesterday from our Visitorial call I found here your favor of Feb. 22. and I now inclose you a copy of our proceedings with the request of our collegues to lay them before the Gov r & Council . for altho’ their assent is not by the law necessari necessary to give them validity, yet they have a right to negative which makes it a duty to communicate them that they may have an...
19Thomas Jefferson to José Corrêa da Serra, 2 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
You have heard long ago that our legislature has passed the act for establishing their University at the Central college . we had hoped they would have accompanied it with an additional donation for erecting the necessary buildings. in this we are disappointed; and therefore are obliged to apply our funds generally to the erection of buildings for the accomodation of the Professors & Students,...
20Thomas Jefferson to James H. McCulloch, 2 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Feb. 17. and the same mail brought me De Bure’s letter of Oct. 1. and invoice , which ought to have accompanied the box of books, but has loitered by the way. finding by his invoice that the books have cost 323. francs equal to 60. D which is the exact sum you had estimated , I inclose a 10.D. bill of the US. bank , which is as near the amount of duty as I...
21Nelson Barksdale and Thomas Jefferson’s Advertisement for Workmen for the University of Virginia, [by 3 March 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
W orkmen wanted —For the buildings to be erected at the University of Virginia , near Charlottesville to wit: Brick Makers and Brick Layers, Stone Masons House Carpenters and Joiners, Plaisterers, Painters and Glaziers, who can produce certificates from known characters, of their perfect skill in their line of business, and of their good faith and punctuality in the performance of their...
22Thomas Jefferson to James Breckinridge, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with sincere pleasure your nomination as a Visitor of our University ; and with the more, as it will give us occasions of seeing you here. I hope you will make Monticello your head quarters, on all those occasions, and indeed I wish you could come a day at least before our meeting of the 29 th instant . the papers being all here, their perusal would put you into possession of the train...
23Thomas Jefferson to Simon Chaudron, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recently recieved thro’ mr Girardin your favor of Feb. 7. informing me of your intention to remove with your family to the Tombigbee . I regret much the circumstances which lead to the exchange of the comforts and society of a large city for the privations which must be encountered in a new settlement. but I congratulate, at the same time, the new society to which you will carry the...
24Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After the passage by our legislature of the act for establishing their University at the Central College , several incidents of expectation suspended my asking a meeting of our visitors , which might enable me to write to you. one of these was the hope that the legislature would make a further donation to enable us to erect our buildings, so that we might be ready soon to open our general...
25Thomas Jefferson to Chapman Johnson, 3 March [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I have learnt with sincere pleasure your nomination as a Visitor of the University ; and with the more as it will again give us occasions of seeing you here. I hope you will make Monticello your head quarters on all these occasions; and I particular ly wish you could come a day at least before our meeting of the 29 th instant . the papers being all here, their examination would put you into...
26Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised your gardener some seeds which I put under a separate cover and address to you by mail. I also inclose you a letter from mr Cabell which will shew you that the ‘sour grapes’ of W m & Mary are spreading; but certainly not to the ‘enlightened part of society’ as the letter supposes. I have sent him a transcript from our journals that he may see how far we are under engagements to D r...
27Thomas Jefferson to Robert Taylor, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have learnt with pleasure your nomination as a Visitor of our University ; and with the more as it will give us occasions of seeing you here. the object of this letter is to ask the favor of you to make Monticello your head quarters on t all these occasions, and for the present to express my wish that you could come a day at least before our meeting of the 29 th instant . the papers being...
28Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Holmes, 4 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately seen at Col o Lindsay ’s one of the corn-shelling machines which you recommended to me, and I am so well satisfied with it that I must avail myself of your kind offer for their procurement. I must ask the favor of you to order two for me, & one for my friend General Cocke ; and to avoid the risks of the mail in sending cash, I inclose an order on Richmond for 45. Dollars which...
29Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 6 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to have the inclosed inserted immediately in the e Enquirer , and to place the expence to account of your next instalment? affectionate salutations. RC ( ViU: TJP ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ Joseph C. Cabell esq. of the Senate of Virginia now in Richmond ”; franked; endorsed by Cabell
30Thomas Jefferson to John Martin Baker, 8 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Baker and his acknolegements for the instructive volume on the trade of the Mediterranean just recieved. not being able to send in paper the exact subscription price, he incloses a 5. Dollar bill which he prays mr Baker to let lie in account in the event of his asking any other copies of the work, and he salutes him with friendship & respect. PoC (...