1From Joseph Carrington Cabell to John Hartwell Cocke, 4 July 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Archer carried my mare down to M r Strange’s to-day, and will get to Bremo to-night on his way home. I have taken the liberty to desire M r Strange whom I saw yesterday to send the mare over to Bremo when he thinks it will be proper to do so , and I will send down for her as soon as you will be good enough to inform me of it, when I hope you will do when she gets to Bremo. I believe M r...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 20 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
On the next page you will find the vote of the Senate on the passage of your bill. Of the four senators who voted against it, two were carried off by their aversion to Lotteries. The Bill was committed at 12. I asked leave for the committee to sit during the session of the house. We reported at 1— & passed the Bill instanter. If the House of Delegates had not adjourned on account of the death...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 18 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You have no doubt already been informed of the arrival of the three additional Professors at this place. I have had a short interview, and am much pleased with them. M r Gilmer’s selection thus far gives me great satisfaction. M r Johnson, M r Loyall and myself, in conformity to your instructions, have fixed on a day for a meeting of the Board, and for that purpose have selected the fourth of...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 21 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my last I have been enabled to settle my opinions as to the course which we ought to pursue. My views have undergone a material change. On my first arrival here I was assailed by old & powerful friends of the University, with all the weapons of reason & persuasion: and wishing to avoid the appearance of illiberality I for a short time contemplated a compromise, and proposed...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 8 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 4th ins t has arrived, and has been read with the greatest interest by myself & the friends to whom I have shewn it. M r Garland’s scheme of 24 Colleges in my view is pregnant with mischief. The only way to defeat it, is to present to the house a better plan in lieu of it. My mind has been on the wing for some days, and a view of this most important subject has occurred to me,...
6To 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...
7To 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...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 16 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you sincerely for your favor of 11. inst. I have but little time now to answer you. I am sorry to inform you that the party in favor of the removal of the College have gained ground very much since the date of my last: insomuch that I now have the greatest apprehensions of their success. The combined intrigues of Richmond and the federal party seem too strong for the country. The...
9To 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...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 3 d ins t has been duly received, and your requests attended to. Both the letter and the enclosed resolutions have been shewn to M r Loyall, and to him alone. He will unite in supporting the resolution relative to the text books on government. It would be very agreeable to us to know the time of our next meeting; but I suppose it is impossible to place it on a footing of greater...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 6 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter from M r Tucker in reply to mine of which you have a copy, I send for the purusal of yourself & M r Madison alone. I can see no objection to its communication thus far, altho’ I expect M r Tucker wrote it with an expectation that it would not go beyond me. I expected he would hesitate about accepting a situation which would cut him off from all prospect of future promotion....
12To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 21 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In adverting in a late letter to M r Gilmer’s determination not to accept the Law–Chair, I requested you to make inquiries relative to Gen l Tucker, of whose Lectures at Winchester I had received so favorable an account as to induce me to think he would be a suitable and popular appointment. It is incumbent on me now to withdraw the suggestion, as Judge Tucker to whom I wrote on the subject,...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 20 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have got thus far on my way home & to the meeting of the Visitors, with the further view of returning afterwards on business to the lower country, & of coming up again with my family early in May. Events crouded so rapidly in the latter part of the session as to deprive me of the power of writing you an account of our proceedings on the subject of the College Bill. I will now give you a...
14To 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...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Chapman Johnson, 26 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your circular, on the subject of the law professor has been received, and we have had a meeting to consider what ought to be done. The continued ill health of M r Gilmer is very much to be lamented, and we deeply deplore the prospect of his loss, in the University and his country— We are very sensible of the importance of filling the vacant chair, as soon as possible, but think that a meeting...
16To 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...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 28 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 22 d covering your bill is received, & I beg you to accept my most heartfelt thanks. I have held a conference on it with some of our friends, and I think it will be a powerful instrument in our hands. Our friends in the other house were committed to the Williamsburg party to vote in the first instance , for the postponement. Then they will be free. If that question should not be...
18To 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...
19To 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...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 19 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 4 th ins t reached me by the mail of last week. Shortly after it came to hand I was called to Bremo on business, where I authorised Gen l Cocke, if he should reach Monticello before my regular written reply, to inform you that I should vote for the immediate appointment of M r Gilmer, as the Professor of Law. I am confident he would be appointed at the meeting in October, and the...
21To 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...
22To 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...
23To 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...
24To 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...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty in my publication under the signature of “ A friend of Science ” in the Constitutional Whig of Tuesday, more correctly printed in the Enquirer of to day, to give to the public your letter to me from Poplar Forest in the year 1817, and in doing so, I hope I have taken no improper liberty. I saw the gathering necessity of setting up the Colleges ag t the Richmond party,...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 15 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The publication of the Extract from your last letter to me was made with the approbation of Judge Carr and I hope will not be disagreeable to you, as I am sure it will produce a very good effect. The Lottery Bill was not taken up to-day. It has gained ground for some days past, & I have no doubt will pass, but not without a large minority. We have a wayward house to deal with, but I hope you...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 31 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of 22 d ins t one of them covering the Report from Rockfish Gap, have safely arrived, & both of them have received my most attentive consideration. Your private letter has been seen, and will be seen, only by myself. On 29 th ins t I wrote M r George Tucker a letter in conformity to your desire, of which the enclosed is a copy. After the most attentive perusal of the other...
28To 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...
29To 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...
30To 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...