1From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The belief is now become so general that the legislature will at the ensuing session dispose of the debt of the University so as to liberate it’s funds and bring it into action, that I think it a duty to be taking such measures to save time as may be provisionally taken without injury if we should be dis appointed . The Visitors have from the beginning determined to employ no professor but of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You have made me a magnificent present in the newly found work of Cicero; and the more precious, as the like is not to be had in the US. the partial terms in which it is conveyed, I duly ascribe to the friendship from which they flow. to the extended views into futurity which these present I have no pretensions. If the rancourous vituperations of enemies, made so, but bitterly so, by the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 26 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Agenda Garrett. Excha, on London 8000.D. advance to 6. 1500. Lackington letters from Ticknor? Russell. warn professors of term 10½ school hours—furniture. books. religion politics 6. enquire into temper, sobriety men with families acceptable no clergyman. apparatus text books. Cambridge Math. Nat. phil. Nat. hist. Oxford. Ant t languages Ednbg Anatomy London. Mod. lang Blaetterman. A. S....
4From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 26 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Know ye that the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, by virtue of the authority vested in them by the laws for the establishment, endowment, and government of the sd University have hereby appointed Francis Walker Gilmer, a citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia, their Attorney in fact, with instructions to proceed to Europe, and to Great Britain particularly, there to select...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 5 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The printer having disappointed me in getting ready, in time to send to you before your departure, the original report of the plan of our University, I now inclose you half a dozen copies, one for D r Stuart, the others to be disposed of as you please. I am sorry to inform you that we fail in getting the contingent donation of 50. M .D. made to us by our last legislature. so we have nothing...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 12 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to you but once since you left us, which was on the 5 th of June, and have duly recieved yours of June 6. 21. July 7. 20. Aug. 13. and 27. in that of July 20. you mentioned the possibility that you might be detained longer than we had expected, perhaps to Dec. or January, and wished a remittance of 6. or 700. D. for expences if lengthened, as possibly might be. this with your...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 21 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The pleasure which I recieved from the information of your letters of the 12 th & 13 th announcing your arrival in N. York was much abated by the state of health in which they represented you to be. fevers are rarely of long continuance, and I hope yours will not be so. you do not mention at what port our Professors will arrive. I am in hopes it will be at Richmond, and I this day write to Col...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 22 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday in answer to yours of the 12 th and 13 th and to-day I recieve your letter of Sep. 15. from London which gives me many particulars, all acceptable except one: that where you speak of having declined your appointment here. we have never so considered anything recieved from you, and hope you will not think of it. it would be, I assure you, a severe affliction to us;...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 30 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
By your letter of the 21 st to Col o T M Randolph I learnt with sincere regret that you were still confined by your illness. I am quite impatient to see you here. we hear nothing yet of the arrival of our Professors, and not knowing at what port they will arrive, I am unable to apply to the Government for instructions to the Collector of the port not to require duty on their books. you said in...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 4 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 28 th ult. and I this day write to mr Anderson, Comptroller, for instructions to the Collector to exempt the books of the Professors from duty; and I inclose to mr Thomson the Collector of New York the Comptroller’s letter to me promising to give him such instructions. this will prevent embarrasment should they arrive before the instructions get to hand....
11From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 20 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your lre of the 13 th was rec d on the 17 th and I can only express my sincere regrets that you do not permit us to consider you as accepting our Law-professorship. no one knows better than yourself the difficulty we shall have in getting a competent substitute. I abhor the idea of a mere Gothic Lawyer, who knows nothing out of Co. Lit. who would not be able to an iate with his colleagues in...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 6 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The board of Visitors met the day before yesterday and I laid before them your letters, your report and documents and I have the pleasure to assure you that the manner in which you have executed your mission has given them the most perfect & unqualified satisfaction and they are especially pleased with your selection of Professors so far as they see of them as yet . I now return you the...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 6 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ our institution has been successful in the main, yet in some of it’s details fortune has thwarted our views very sensibly. had your letter of May 28. been recieved one day sooner, all our chairs would have been now filled according to our first wishes. on the 30 th of May I recieved a 5 th vote in favor of Judge Dade, and on the 31 st I conveyed to him the offer of our Law-chair. the...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, the day before yesterday, Judge Dade’s final answer declining our law-chair, and yesterday I gave the information to the Visitors. I informed them at the same time that your health was so far restored as to give me hopes you might now accept it, and I referred to them to determine whether they would chuse to have a meeting to make a choice, or, recurring at once to their first...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in informing you that the Board of Visitors at their late meeting unanimously appointed you Professor of the school of Law in the University of Virginia, and that on signifying your acceptance the letter of appointment shall be immediately made out. with my sincere hopes that this mark of the esteem in which they hold you may be recieved with as much pleasure as it has...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very anxious to see you, and the sooner the more I shall be gratified. the dissensions at the University, depend, for a thorough healing on a delicate conduct of it’s friends at this time. a party schism among the Professors is the thing to be feared. my health is subject but to small changes. paroxysms of pain succeeded by intervals of ease, more or less short. I am far from foreseeing...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 23 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been anxious to visit you and think I could do it; but D r Dunglison protests against it. I am at this time tolerably easy, but small things make great changes at times. I can only in this way then ask you how you do? and not requiring an answer from yourself but from such member of the family as is well enough. we have had a fine January, but may expect a better February. that month...