451From 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...
452From 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;...
453From 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....
454From 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...
455From 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...
456From 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...
457From 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...
458From 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...
459From 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...
460From 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...
461From 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...
462From 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...
463From 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....
464From 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...
465From Thomas Jefferson to Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, 16 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 5. if it were not a mistake for Dec. 5. has been strangely delayed, as it did not reach me till yesterday. you could not have applied to a worse hand for an inscription on the tomb-stone of our friend. I have no imagination. and an epitaph is among the most difficult of things. it requires brevity, point and pith. were such a task enjoined on me, as an imposition on a...
466From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas W. Gilmer, 13 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Thomas W. Gilmer to dine at Monticello to-day with Gen l La Fayette. Privately owned.
467From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Hue Girardin, 9 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 27. came to hand while G l La Fayette is with us. I took an early occn to inform him of your wish to write memoirs of him , and my opn that he would be satisfied with what you would do. he expressed a disposn entirely favble but did not give any positive answer, he will be at Baltimore in the course of this month when you will have an oppty of conversing with him, or if not...
468From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Hue Girardin, 19 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6 th came but lately to hand. I cheerfully comply with the request it conveyed of writing to the President on the subject of the Librarian’s office. I accordingly inclose a letter to him, stating truths to which I bear witness ever with pleasure; & I shall be the happier if the position should befriend the publication of the rest of your history. Our University is going on...
469From Thomas Jefferson to Claudius F. Gojon, 28 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The time for opening the University of Virginia being quite indefinite, and depending on future acts of the legislature. the Visitors deem it premature to take measures as yet on the subject of Professors. it’s commencement, when fixed, will be announced in the public papers. Accept my respectful salutations. ViU .
470From Thomas Jefferson to Claiborne W. Gooch, 9 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Dec. 31. and fear with you all the evils which the present lowering aspect of our political horison so ominously portends. that, at some future day, which I hoped to be very distant, the free principles of our government might change, with the change of circumstances, was to be expected. but I certainly did not expect that they would not over-live the...
471From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Goodacre, 14 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Goodacre and his son to dine with him to-day at 3. oclock. Privately owned.
472From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 1 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot blame you, if you have been thinking hardly of my long delay in answering your favor of the 10 th ult. but knowing the state of my health these thoughts will vanish from your mind . it is now 3. weeks since a re-ascerbation of my painful complaint has confined me to the house and indeed to my couch. required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty. yesterday for...
473From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 22 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17 th is rec d and I cannot sffly express to you my sense of the kindness with which my friends have exerted themselves in my behalf—a majority of one only even for leave to bring in the bill, and that too in the legislature of my native state was of appalling aspect. it was a certificate of character to other states and countries which could not but be painfully felt—the...
474From Thomas Jefferson to William Gough, 21 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended to have gone to Poplar Forest with my grandson Francis, in order to fix him in the house there and see with what accomodns we could aid him in the beginning as beginnings are always difficult with young H. keeper . but indispensible business has kept and will keep me here till our court. in the mean time I pray you to attend to his wants, to let him have the use of our dairy...
475From Thomas Jefferson to William Gough, 12 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
My business here has rendered it impossible for me to visit Poplar Forest as yet; in the mean time my taxes are becoming due in Bedford, and not knowing their amount, to prevent difficulty I inclose an order on Col o Bernard Peyton of Richmond in favor of the Sheriff of Bedford, naming one hundred Dollars but leaving a blank after the hundred for you to fill up with the additional odd dollars...
476From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin A. Gould, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to you, Sir, for your present of the bust of my friend mr Adams. without knowing exactly the precise period at which it was taken, I think it a good likeness of what he was a little after he had past the middle age of life. it recieved a little injury by fracture, but the parts are preserved, and, being on the back part, can be repaired without disfiguring it. I place it...
477From Thomas Jefferson to John A. Graham, 9 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Graham for the copy of his speech in Maxwell’s case which he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with the pleasure which he recieves from every instance of attention to the preservn of our rights, and especially to the principles by which those of life are protected. mr Graham by his advocation of them in this case has deserved well of the...
478From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Granger, 24 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4 th , recently recieved, has been long on it’s way to me. in the meantime I had recieved thro’ the public papers the afflicting information it announced. on this event I offer my sincere condolances to yourself & the family. few had better occasions than myself of knowing the great worth of mr Granger’s character. serving together for eight years, in stations of much...
479From Thomas Jefferson to William Gray, 11 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ no circumstance has happened to procure me the pleasure of a personal acqce with you. yet a known harmony in political principles and action has not left us strangers altogether. this must be my apology for taking the liberty of presenting to you my friend Col o B. Peyton, a worthy officer of the late war, and since that, establ d in Richm d as a Comm n merch t his industry, punctuality...
480From Thomas Jefferson to William F. Gray, 3 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my lre of Mar. 16. I ment d to you that it would suit me much better to recieve my Reviews from the Agent in Richmond instead of Fredsbg, my funds being always in the former place where the Agent could at any time call on Col o Peyton my correspdt there for payment, and that I that day wrote to him to furnish me thereafter which he has regularly done, recieving afterwds the Apr. N o 47....