31Thomas 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
32Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to drop me a line the moment the Philadelphia workmen arrive, informing me when they may be expected here, as it might induce me to put off my departure until I see them fixed here. Perry has promised to have dormitories for the master workmen and Cellars ready for the others which was my promise. I salute you with friendship & respect. RC ( ViU: TJP-PP ); dateline at...
33Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter recommending a mr James Wade of Lynchburg for the conducting water to the University . I have other satisfactory information, of his skill, industry and fidelity to his engagements. he will undertake to work at the Philadelphia prices, whatever they are, altho’ he does not know what they are. he will come the moment you call for him but says the timber had better not be...
34Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Our two Italian Sculptors arrived at Charlottesville the evening before last and we have to make immediate provision to reimburse to mr Hollins of Baltimore the sums he has been called on for on their arrival. mr Appleton found it necessary to advance to each of them 200.D. apiece to prepare for their voyage and to leave some provision for their families, at a loss of exchange too of 10. p....
35Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 5 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is but lately concluded to commence the Eastern range of pavilions, I h & Dormitories I have not prepared the plans, nor shall I be at leisure to turn to that business till the week after the ensuing one. but those pavilions will vary so little from the dimensions last given, & those of N o I. II. III. of the Western range that if the foundations are dug to that, the trimming them to...
36Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson incloses to mr Brockenbrough two letters merely because they relate to his department. Andrei who writes one, is a great artist & excellent man, and his recommendation would be weighty if we wanted the workmen he recommends at all. Gorman will be with you within not many days. he has worked here under my eye about 3 weeks, dressing and laying some hearthstones and marble slabs. I...
37Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in informing you that mr Ware is arrived. he tells me he was arrested by creditors & detained some time. he says he has secured as many bricklayers, brickmakers & house joiners as we can find work for, that they are glad to come at our prices, and will be ready to come off at once on his writing back what work we can give them. I des I told him what I had written to you ;...
38Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter from mr Hollins of Baltimore of the following import ‘The Italians left a case on board the brig Strong , which I understood them to contain a piece of unwrought marble; but the custom house officers on examination find it to contain polished work of some kind; & not having been put in the Captain’s manifest, of course not reported to the Custom house store, I...
39Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been detained by the indisposition of one of my grandaughters who was to accompany me. she is better but will not be strong enough to proceed till tomorrow, if then. in the mean time I have recieved a letter from mr Appleton informing me that after making his draughts on mr Hollins and sealing his letters, the vessel being delayed a little longer, the he was obliged to advance a further...
40Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday by the Lynchbg mail which was to leave that place the same evening, and I now inclose you a letter from a mr Stokes which ought to have been addressed to you. I have made full enquiry whether proper blocks of marble could be got here should we want them. I find that they cannot, & that the quality is such as would not bear the chissel for delicate work, and is of so...
41Thomas Jefferson to Archibald S. Bulloch, 17 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Bulloch and is very sensible of the indulgence with which he has viewed the course he has followed thro’ his political life. if he has deserved any thing of his country it has been fully remunerated by the testimonies of it’s good will so often manifested. he sincerely wishes that the son to whom mr Bulloch has been pleased to give his name may,...
42Thomas 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
43Thomas 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 (
44Thomas 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:
45Thomas 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...
46Thomas Jefferson to John C. Calhoun, 4 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Mar. 20. returning the papers of mr Poirey , and informing me that his claim has been allowed by Congress . on seeing in the public papers the title of the act among those said to be past, I immediately wrote to mr Poirey , informing him of it, and recommending his sending a power of Attorney to some one to recieve & remit the money to him. I excused myself...
47Thomas Jefferson to Peter Cardelli, 29 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your l e tter of the 8 th found me yesterday only at this place. soon after your departure from Monticello , I deposited your box with mr W m D. Fitch at Milton and recieved his promise that it should be forwarded to Cap t
48Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 11 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Carey and his thanks for the copy of his Vindiciae which came to hand safely and in due time. the demands on his time by letters more numerous than his present enfeebled existence can meet, occasions sometimes a tardiness in the acknolegement of favors which he neverth e less highly values. he prays mr Carey to accept this as his apologey apology ,...
49Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 11 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Carey to forward him by mail a copy of the House carpenter’s book of prices printed by him in 1812. it is of importance to us as being the standard to which we refer for prices in our contracts for all the buildings of our University . he salutes mr Carey with esteem & respect. RC ( MWelC ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “M r Matthew Carey Philadelphia
50Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 11 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to have the inclosed advertisement inserted once in the Winchester newspaper, and to deduct the cost from your next instalment? Accept thanks for the nuts which came safely and assurances of constant affection. PoC ( ViU: TJP-CC ); on verso of reused address cover of William Wirt to TJ, 28 Dec. 1818 ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure: Nelson Barksdale...
51Thomas Jefferson to Curtis Carter and William B. Phillips, 9 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Offers to do the work of the University for 11 ½ Dollars for place-brickwork & 20.D. for oil-stock work have induced us to engage most of the work. we have reserved however about two or 300,000. bricks for you if you chuse to undertake it on those terms. be so good as to let me know by mail as soon as you can. I salute you with respect. RC ( ViU: TJP ); endorsed in an unidentified hand. PoC (...
52Thomas Jefferson to Wilson J. Cary, 4 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Doct r Cooper , himself probably the best classical scholar in the US. had from the first proposition of our college recommended a mr Stack as the best classical teacher in America , and worthy of our professorship. it having been found that the University could not be opened for some time yet, I thought it desirable to get a classical school opened immediately in Charlottesville as a nursery...
53Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, 26 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Apr. 5. of the last year ; since which I have recieved yours of Mar. 30. Apr. 25. May 2. Aug. 13. & Nov. 30. of the same year ; and all the articles announced in these are safely recieved also. those by the brig Planter , Anderson , to Petersburg
54Thomas 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...
55Thomas Jefferson to Charles Clay, 9 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I MUST have been misunderstood by those who thought I disapproved of the judgment in the case of the negroes. I thought I said very distinctly it was the fittest procedure which could be adopted, inasmuch as the medicine was not furnished by the Doctor with ill intent, nor proved to have produced ill effect, the only case which could authorize severer punishment. I am under a smart attack of...
56Thomas Jefferson to Charles Clay, 28 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
when you chuse to revoke one of the deeds entirely, throw it into the fire. if you wish to alter any of it’s items, write on the same paper ‘I revoke such an item’ and if you chuse to substitute another in it’s place, add ‘and I substitute in it’s place [such another describing it] which I assign and convey to the same trustees for the same person and purposes.’ or copy the deed over with the...
57Thomas 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
58Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 7 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
According to promise I now inclose you a catalogue of the best editions of the Classics, Greek & Latin, and I have prepared a copy of it which I shall inclose in a letter to Gen l Taylor . our two Italian sculptors are arrived, and are recommended as men of superior character and have much that appearance. their passage, necessary advances & journey from Baltimore here have brought a pretty...
59Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 3 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
It is really scandalous, after so liberal a supply of fish from you to ask a second donation. yet I am forced to it by the stupidity of the servant who in my absence was entrusted with the mission. instead of never stopping till he got home, night overtook him on the road, he encamped, and the water being unchanged thro’ the night, he found the fish all dead on his awakening in the morning. my...
60Thomas Jefferson to William J. Coffee, 15 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been long indebted to you for your letter of Nov. 7. explaining to me the nature & character of the Roman cement , and kindly offering your assistance in procuring it. as the proper season is now arrived for using it, I wish to try it on one of my 4. cisterns, and if I find we can execute it effectually, I may then ask more for the other three. I therefore now inclose 40.D. and ask the...