151Thomas Jefferson to Vine Utley, 21 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 18. came to hand on the 1 st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model, with which you accompanied it, of D r Rush’s answer to a similar enquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as the history of my own. like my friend the Doctor, I have lived...
152John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to Acknowledge— your Esteemed fav r 14 th — should any explanation—of mine to be necessary—in the statem t of my several Acco ts —or any Agency—wherein I could be Usefull—in Aid of the Administrator— Gen l Cocke —or should his presence be Necessary here—
153José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 22 March 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
You see by the enclosed Letter that i do not forget your recommendations. I hope in it goes in time, and perhaps in the form of an unasked Letter will operate better than if it had the appearance of an answer to a question on that delicate point. RC ( MHi ); undated; endorsed by TJ as an undated letter received 30 Mar. 1819 from “ Correa Joseph ” and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Corrêa da...
154José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I was very glad of what i knew, about your perfect convalescence and about the progress of the Virginian university , but it has been to me a great additional pleasure, to read it in your handwriting. Your health i am confident will with proper attention continue strong and i hope and wish, for a pretty Long period too. Serus in cælum redeas diuque Lætus intersis — My anxiety about the...
155Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer M r Hickey has been recommended as a Plaisterer to some of my friends, by D r Brockenbrough —He intends going to Charlottesville to contract for the finishing of the College , contemplated to be built there— M r Haxall who employed him here is much pleased with his work, and considers him as in all respects compen
156Thomas Mann Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 23 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer M r Calverley has just brought to me the inclosed letter . I have never seen or heard of him before, myself; nor can I make any inquiry about him which could be communicated to you before he reaches Albemarle ; as I shall be detained here unavoidably some days longer, waiting upon business to be done in Richmond ; and in the mean time availing myself of the compulsory delay to...
157Enclosure: Thomas Mann Randolph (1792–1848) to Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 March [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this M r Calverley is by profession a painter, he has done a great deal of painting for me at Tuckahoe , & I can recommend him as an excellent workman, surpassed by none in Richmond , & is withall one of the most industrious, steady, & deserving tradesmen that I know any where—he is desirous to get employment at the Central college ; & feeling convinced that no man can be...
158Dabney Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d a few days past your’s of M’ch 11 th inclosing an advertisement for workmen . We have two papers published here, which I believe, pretty nearly, divide, the population in this part of the valley; few men taking more than one—I have a thought of publishing the advertisement in both; but I observe you seem to contemplate, a single publication in one paper ; I have therefore confined...
159Curtis Carter and William B. Phillips to [Nelson Barksdale], 24 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
we will contract with you to make & lay from seven to ten hundred Thousand Brick for the Virginia University and compleate it by the first day of November next for the following prices to wit For all walls faced with oil stock Brick $18/ M For all walls faced with sand Stock Brick $ 13 do all walls such as partitions brest of chimneys and Seller walls below the surfice $12 do The Bricks to be...
160William F. Gray to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last Stage I sent you in a Box, the above Books, being a part of those you favoured me with for binding.—I hope you will be satisfied with them; but if you are it will be more than I am. My binder has not finished them in the style I wished, but I believe they are strong.— On examining the “Port Folio,” I found some of the Vols. had been put together wrong—months in the early part of a...
161Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William F. Gray, [ca. 25 March 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Tho s Jefferson , Esq. To William F. Gray D r 1819 March 20 th For Binding 30 Vols. Ed: Review 75 22.50 〃
162Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 25 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of the 19 th and I now inclose you an order on mr Gibson for 25. D 37 ½ c which in addition to the amount of your account 18.37 ½ D includes 7.D. more for Fonblanque when you shall recieve it. I will then request you to send by mail the 2. vols separately and in different weeks that our village mail may not be overburthened. I would thank you to procure...
163Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 25 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from Cap t Miller of Norfolk of Feb. 16. he informed me he had put on board the steamboat for me ten gross of corks to your address. not having heard of them I am afraid the steamboat has never delivered them. in the mean while the season is so far advanced and advancing that I fear I shall lose my whole year’s stock of ale and cyder by too late bottling. if the corks are arrived I...
164Rodolph Schaer to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Having learned from several news papers, that a university is forming, under your patronage, in Virginia , and presuming, that the founders thereof will be desirous of providing the same with every object necessarily appartaining to institutions of this nature, I hereby, take the liberty to offer you respectfully the following articles, presently in my possession. I A philosophical apparatus,...
165William F. Gray to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer, M r Tho s Smith , has applied to me for an introduction to you; but not having ever had that honour myself, it may be considered too great a liberty for me to take.—He will no doubt carry with him a much better introduction than my name can give him. I will only say that he has for some time lived my neighbour, and has approved himself a sober and industrious citezen; and in every...
166Richard Ware to Nelson Barksdale, 26 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
the subsci subscriber will be happy to undertake three portions mentioned in the advertisement & uppon the conditions their specified at fifteen percent below the Book of Prices published by M Cary in 1812 provideed it should meet the approbation of that Honourable Body address, Rich d Ware 178 North 4 th
167James Dinsmore to [Nelson Barksdale], 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have fixed my self with a work Shop and other Conveniencys, for Carrying on work at the Central College and have declined other Jobs, through that Expectation—it would be my desire to undertake at the University , provided I Can do it with any Probable prospect of not loseing by it— from my knowledge of the manner in which the work is Expected to be executed, and the difficultys—we Labour...
168James Dinsmore and John M. Perry to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
the Subscribers haveing leveled from the doric pavillion to the springs on the mountain —find the two first to be 6. feet above the water table—at the distance of 1100 yards—one hundred yards further is another sp r ing 26. feet above the water table of pavillion—and still further—say abut 60 yards there is another 75. feet above the s d level—all of these are bold good springs—the furtherest...
169Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will be delivered to you by M r Arthur Brockenbrough , who I anxiously hope you will be able to employ on some terms or other, I wish it most on your account, as I am sure he wou’d save you much trouble & vexation. I enclose two notes which you will be so good as to endorse & return to me by the mail. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Mar. 1819 and so recorded in SJL . RC (...
170James Oldham to Nelson Barksdale, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The standard adopted in your advertisment for the rule of Prices, for the carpenters and Joiners worke of the Buildings to be erected at the university of virginia , I tender to you my servises to undertake one or two of the Buildings at 25 ⅌ cent advance on the adopted rule, the worke to be performed agreeable to the Turms specifyed in the advertisment , but the kiln drying of Plank and...
171John M. Perry to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I would Contract to furnish all materials and lay 300,000 bricks at $14. per thousand— according to the Specimin furnished in the Corrinthian pavillion , which tho undertaken by M. Brown was actually executed by me and a further Specimin exhibited in the two ranges of dormitories appendant to the Doric pavillion N o 4 —If it should be required I will even bind myself to execute the work in a...
172Spencer Roane to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to introduce to you the bearer, M r Arthur S: Brockenbrough . He goes up to see whether his services will be needed by the trustees of the university , and whether it would be worth his while to leave his occupations here. He is a man of great respectability. He was regularly bred a house-joiner, and has, I beleive, a good taste in architecture, of which the new banks in...
173Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, [after 27 June 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Palladio ’s measures of the Fortuna virilis are not in Modules & minutes but in quarter inches of the Vicentine foot , this the diameter of the column being 2 f–8 ½ I or 130 quarter inches which he calls minutes. then 130 ¼ I : 60′ :: 95 ¼ I his projection to 43′ 17 20
174Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I expected to have had the pleasure of delivering the enclosed letters in person, but unexpected business has prevented it, if there is any prospect of my being usefuly usefully & profitably employed at the University you will please inform me , — If materials are easily come at I would probably become a large undertaker, the Salary of the Proctor alone I fear would not be a sufficient...
175Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d this morning with your esteemed letter of the 25 curt: & observe contents: Your Corks from Norfolk were forwarded immediately on their receipt, together with a Box of Books to your address from F. A. Mayo ’s of this City, by Gelmore s Boat, long enough to have reached you before this, which I hope is the case, & that they will be in good time for your purposes: whenever I...
176Thomas Taylor (for Reuben G. Beasley) to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few days since a Case of Seeds from M r Thouin of the Jardin du Roi to be forwarded to your address by the first opportunity, And as no direct conveyance at present offers I have shipped it on board the Brig John Burgwin — Capt: Perry bound to Philadelphia to the care of the Collector , with a request that he will cause it to be forwarded to you immediately after its arrival.—...
177Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 29 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia at the said University on Monday the 29 th day of March 1819. being the day prescribed by the Governor for their first meeting, James Madison , Joseph C. Cabell , Chapman Johnson , James Breckenridge Robert Taylor ,
178Petty Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed I take the liberty of handing you three hastily written papers: 1— On the Culture of Swedish Turnip . 2— On that of Guinea Grass . 3—Respecting Ox Yokes, with an accompanying Model. Should they prove useful either to yourself; or the agricultural Gentlemen of this State I shall be highly gratified. It is my intention to proceed from hence to London ; there to reside for the present....
179Enclosure: Petty Vaughan’s Notes on Rutabaga (Swedish Turnip), 29 March 1819, enclosure number 1 in Petty Vaughan to … (Jefferson Papers)
Notes on the Culture of the Swedish Turnip , as practised in Maine with success. 1. Rich loam, or black mould is found to suit it best. 2. The land should be new, (either from turning up the sod, or from burnt woods); or well manured with stable-manure the year preceding; for if done the same year, you will be troubled with worms & other insects. Plaister of Paris may be used applied to it,...
180Enclosure: Petty Vaughan’s Notes on Guinea Grass, 29 March 1819, enclosure number 2 in Petty Vaughan to Thomas … (Jefferson Papers)
The Guinea Grass succeeds well in Jamaica upon dry, stony uplands; & when well established, will last for 20 or 30 years.—Used as grass for cutting, it may be cropped 3 or 4 times annually.— If for pasturage, it should not be fed too low in the dry part of the season; as the sun then gets at the roots, & burns them up. The common rule is, to feed it about 4 times in the year, & not to reduce...