1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Cocke will inform you that the cause of my failure to attend at the University on yesterday, was that I had not sufficiently recovered from the severe & tedious illness by which I have been unhappily visited. My convalescence is much slower than I expected, and is further prolonged by successive relapses. Some days past, I was taken with the ague & fever, which often follows in the rear...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 19 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this place on the 17 th ins t and write now merely to apprize you of my arrival. I returned to Williamsburg from the Northern Neck on the 6 th ins t and immediately wrote to a friend in this place to ascertain whether the usual recess of the Senate would take place. I counted on a recess as a matter of course, & was willing to avail myself of it, in order that I might enjoy some rest...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 23 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Gordon & M r Rives left this for Albemarle on yesterday and will not probably return for eight or ten days. The latter went for his family, & the former to visit M rs Gordon in her distress for the loss of a child. I am very sorry that they were obliged to leave town, as we want the aid of all our friends at this time. M r Gordon shewed me on saturday, a letter which he had just received...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 30 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that M r Gordon & M r Rives arrived in town last evening, & have attended the House to-day. M r Gordon called on me this morning, when I disclosed to him, what I had done in his absence, and my present views & prospects. I have conferred with M r Hunter, M r Carey, M r Bowyer, M r Taylor of Botetourt, M r Baldwin, & c and the almost unanimous opinion of us all, is,...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 9 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you very sincerely for your letter of 28 Dec: and am mortified at the circumstance of my having been the cause of so much trouble to you. I am happy to inform you that our prospects are now very favourable. Every thing is understood, every thing is arranged. Our bill will be introduced in the Committee of Schools & Colleges in a day a two. We ought to have had a select Committee to get...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 23 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 13 th ins t came safely to hand by the mail. I have shewn it to m r Gordon & M r Rives. My own impression is that in touching the subject of the unliquidated debt, we should merely guard against future unfavorable imputations, by stating that it might and probably would exceed the conjectural amount mentioned in your letter, and that when you wrote, the settlement was in a...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your favor of 28 th ult: and feel much gratified that you approve the view which I took of the subject of the primary schools. I am very much pleased at your suggestion of a method by which a meeting of our board may be deferred till the regular period in the month of April. It would be very inconvenient for me to attend an intermediate meeting, and the method you suggest will...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 5 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the satisfaction to enclose you a copy of the Act concerning the University, which has this moment passed the Senate, and is now the Law of the Land. The vote on the passage of the Bill in the House of Delegates was 121–to 66. The vote in the Senate was 19 to 3. I hereby give my assent to the Loan authorized by this act. I shall get M r Johnson and M r Loyall to write you to the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor by M r Brokenbrough has been duly received. I have shewn it to some members for the purpose of evincing the willingness of the board to meet all charges. But the letter of Oldham made no impression here; and I believe it was met so promptly, there has been no attempt to use it for mischievous purposes. It deserves, in my opinion, no serious notice from any one. M r Brokenbrough’s...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 26 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The Legislature being on the eve of adjournment, & all the business of my district, & indeed of the state in general, being compleated, or so nearly so, as to admit of my departure, I left town on the 23 d inst & arrived here on the evening of the same day. During the latter part of the session we provided by law that visitors of the University should not lose their seats by the mere fact of...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your favor of 12 th ins t I am at all times disposed favorably to every thing which you think best for the University and make no doubt but that on this occasion you have pursued the course best calculated to promote its interests. I certainly intend to leave this on thursday the 27 th ins t and after making a visit to my farm in Nelson, to come to...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 24 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned home on the 3 d ins t and yesterday attended as one of the members of Nelson Court, where I was engaged with others to procure a suitable plan for a new Jail for our county, in conformity to the provisions of the late act of Assembly on the subject of Jails. A committee had been appointed at a former term to procure & report to the court at the June term a plan for the new Jail: and...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 18 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you many thanks for your favor of 4 th ins t covering your plan of a Jail. Reports of your being indisposed had induced me to repent that I had written to you, & to resign the expectation of hearing from you. I wished to fulfil in the best manner practicable the promise I had made to the Court. I therefore wrote to M r Peck with whom I was acquainted, inviting himself & his partner M...
14Joseph C. et al., Commissioners of Nelson County Cabell: Contract to build a jail, 29 July 1823, 29 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum of a contract made and entered into this 29 th day of July 1823 between Robert Rives. Joseph C. Cabell and Thomas Napier Jun r Commissioners appointed by the Court of Nelson County on monday the 28 th July 1823 to make a contract for the building of a new Jail, of the one part: and William B. Phillips of the other part. It is agreed between the aforesaid parties that the said...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 6 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On sunday evening preceding our last Court, I rode up to Lovingston to meet the undertakers from the University, & to select a suitable site for our new Jail. I found there M r Corby from Staunton, & M r Phillips, M r Perry, & M r Crawford from the University. During that evening & the next morning, I marked out the site; with enclosures taking in our old Jail as a suitable House & kitchen for...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 27 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith return you M r Coffey’s work on the state Prison of New York, with my best thanks for the use of it. I will take the liberty to retain Roscoe’s work a little longer as I have been so much engaged in my brother’s affairs of late as to have been unable to read it. I am sorry to inform you that I am unable to find the Oxford & Cambridge Guides any where about my House, & that I know...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place on yesterday and to-day shall proceed on my journey to the county of Lancaster, but from my detention in Nelson in consequence of my late purchase it will probably be out of my power to get back to the meeting of the Assembly. Indeed, I fear I shall be compelled to be absent nearly all the month of December, as I shall probably have to return to Nelson. As Gen l...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
By the aid of my valuable friend Col: Boyd of the county of King & Queen I have been enabled to finish my business in the northern neck, and to return to this place on the 2 d of this month. I took my seat in the Senate to-day. Finding that my private affairs could be so speedily adjusted, I returned hastily over stormy rivers, and frozen roads, to rejoin the band of stedfast patriots engaged...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 29 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this on 2 6 th ins t & have got into lodgings, and am entering into communications with our friends on the subject of the University. Col: Randolph has probably shewn you the enclosed documents, but least he may have forgotten them, I send you the enclosed copies. I fear this Bill is all we can get. Hearing that the surplus was ample, I did till to-day eulogize our friends on the...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 26 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you sincerely for your three letters of 19 th 22 d & 23 d ins t all of which I have shewn to our friends in the senate. The University Bill is now before the Senate & will be acted on in a day or two. I confess I differ with you as to its importance & character. We do not here care in the least for the Proviso giving to the Gen l Assembly the power of revocation. You know the...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 29 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the gratification to enclose you by our friend M r Garrett a copy of the University act of the present session. It passed the Senate unanimously. Attempts were made to amend it: but we were determined to pass the bill as it came to us; because our friends in the other House warned us of the imminent danger of its return. I was ill in bed when the proviso to which you so much object...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 19 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I received in due time by the mail your favor of the 3 d ins t I have not written in reply, because I have been absorbed in the discharge of my duties at this place. From the first moment I heard of the bill to recharter the Farmer’s Bank, I fixed upon it as furnishing a good opportunity to provide the fifty thousand dollars for our Library & Apparatus. I mentioned my views to M r Garrett when...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume you have already been informed by Col: Randolph of the result of our long continued struggles for the Bonus of the Farmer’s Bank. We have been compelled to relinquish it to the Improvement Fund, and to accept an equivalent out of the Balance of the debt due from the General Government. Never have I known so obstinate a struggle between the two Houses of Assembly. M r Johnson has...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 17 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 21 st inst I shall take passage in the steam boat for the city of Washington. My stay there will be short, but I will endeavor to collect & bring you all the information I can obtain relative to the claim of the University. You are the best judge of the measures proper to ensure the recovery of this just debt: but I beg leave to urge the importance of letters addressed by yourself & M r...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 1 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My plan was to leave the City to-day, so as to get to Monticello on saturday. But finding I cannot reach the point I desired in time to do so, I must now defer my departure till saturday or sunday, when I expect to set out on my return, and taking the monday’s stage from Fredericksburg, arrive at Monticello on tuesday. Should I not come myself, you may expect to receive a letter from me. But...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 8 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to you by my servant Archer, who comes down with the Horse you were so good as to lend me. I took the liberty to keep him longer than I promised, because on getting to Col. John Cole’s, I found both himself & his brother Tucker, together with their families, were setting out to see Lady Skipwith, & all their riding Horses, seemed to be in requisition. I shall remain at...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 16 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9 th ins t was delivered to me by my servant on the 11 th I deferred writing till now because I thought my answer would not reach you as soon by the mail from Warminster, as by that from Columbia, which place I shall pass in a few hours from this time on my journey to the lower country. I was very much pleased at the limitation of the foreign professors to a moiety of the...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 5 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
A scheme is in now in agitation at this place the object of which is to remove the college of William and Mary to the city of Richmond. All the Professors of the college, except the Professor of Law, are decidedly in favor of it. Chancellor Brown, & others, of the Board of Visitors, will give it their support. What number of the Visitors will come into it I am not informed; but the friends of...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 13 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 16 ult. covering M r Madison’s letter to you of the 20 th was handed to me by Capt Peyton in Richmond in the latter part of the month. I have heretofore declined writing in reply, because I have entertained the hope of visiting you as desired, in which event a written answer would be unnecessary. Nothing, I assure you, could have been more agreeable to M rs Cabell & myself than...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 17 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I reached this place on the 12 th ins t and have employed the interval in taking lodgings & in occasional conferences on the interests of my district & of the state. My delay in getting to town was owing to the failure of an overseer to come to one of my farms at the time I expected him, & partly to the desire of M rs Tucker to prolong her stay in the mountain air. I wished and intended to...