Chapter
I. Thomas Jefferson’s Bill of Complaint against the Directors of the Rivanna Company, [by 9 February]
II. Extract from Minutes of the Directors of the Rivanna Company, 12 September 1810
III. From Peter Minor, 10 November 1810
IV. Extract from Minutes of the Directors of the Rivanna Company, 8 January 1811
V. From Peter Minor, [15] January 1811
VI. Statement of the Dispute by the Directors of the Rivanna Company, [ca. 15 January 1811]
VII. Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia Statutes for Clearing the Rivanna River, 27 December 1816
From Joseph Milligan, 9 February
To Hugh Nelson, 9 February
From William Sampson, 9 February
To Smith & Riddle, 9 February
From Francis Hall, 10 February
From Samuel L. Mitchill, 10 February
From William Canby, 11 February
From Madame de Staël Holstein, 12 February
From Patrick Gibson, 13 February
From Charles Yancey, 13 February
From Philip I. Barziza, 14 February
From John H. Peyton, 14 February
From James Madison, 15 February
To James Madison, 16 February
To John Barnes, 17 February
From Peter S. Du Ponceau, 17 February
To Fernagus De Gelone, 17 February
To Patrick Gibson, 17 February
From George Washington Jeffreys, 17 February
To Mr. Logan (of Staunton), 17 February
From Charles K. Mallory, 17 February
To Simeon Theus, 17 February
From Jerman Baker, 19 February
From Joseph C. Cabell, 19 February
From Richard Rush, 19 February
From William Thornton, 19 February
To Samuel L. Mitchill, 20 February
From Smith & Riddle, 20 February
To Edwin Stark, 20 February
To Simeon Theus, 20 February
From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 20 February
From Charles Yancey, 20 February
From Simon Bernard, 21 February
From Joseph Milligan, 21 February
From José Corrêa da Serra, 22 February
From Hendrick W. Gordon, 22 February
From David Higginbotham, 22 February
From Richard C. Derby, 23 February
From Thomas Law, [received 23 February]
To Charles K. Mallory, 23 February
From James Monroe, 23 February
To Philip I. Barziza, 24 February
From Joseph Delaplaine, 24 February
To Thomas Law, 24 February
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 24 February
From Robert B. Sthreshly, 24 February
From Caspar Wistar, 24 February
From Fernagus De Gelone, 25 February
From William A. Burwell, 26 February
From George M. Dallas, 27 February
From Chapman Johnson, 27 February
From John Barnes, 28 February, enclosing Draft Power of Attorney to John Barnes for United States Stock Interest, 26 February
To Hutchins G. Burton, 28 February
From John W. Maury, 28 February
From Charles Willson Peale, 28 February
From Peter H. Wendover, 1 March
To Madame de Corny, 2 March
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 3 March
To George Washington Jeffreys, enclosing Catalogue of Books on Agriculture, 3 March
From John Trumbull, 3 March
From William Johnson, 4 March
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 4 March
From Joshua Stow, 4 March
From Thomas Appleton, enclosing Notes on Lupinella Grass Seed, 5 March
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 March
From Valentine W. Southall, 5 March
To Richard C. Derby, 6 March
To John Wayles Eppes, 6 March
To Fernagus De Gelone, 6 March
Instructions for Setting a Sundial, [ca. 6 March]
From William Pelham, 6 March
From Robert Walsh, 6 March
To Fernagus De Gelone, 7 March
To Simon Bernard, 8 March
To George M. Dallas, 8 March
To John H. Cocke and David Watson, 10 March
From Joseph Dougherty, 10 March
To James Madison, 10 March
From Bernard Peyton, 10 March
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 10 March
From George Gibbs, enclosing Statement of the Mineralogical Committee of the New-York Historical Society, 11 March
To Joseph Miller, 11 March
From Samuel L. Mitchill, enclosing Statement of the Committee on Zoology of the New-York Historical Society, 11 March
To Bernard Peyton, 11 March
From Fernagus De Gelone, 15 March
To Thomas Eston Randolph, 15 March
From Edwin Stark, 15 March
To Thomas Appleton, 16 March
To Stephen Cathalan, 16 March
To Albert Gallatin, 16 March
To David Higginbotham, 16 March
To Charles Willson Peale, 16 March
To Bernard Peyton, 16 March
To Archibald Thweatt, 16 March
To Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 16 March
From Joseph Delaplaine, 17 March
From Bernard Peyton, 17 March
From Edwin Stark, 17 March
To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 19 March
To Joseph Milligan, 19 March
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 March
From Patrick Gibson, 20 March
From David Michie, 20 March
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 20 March
From Edmund Bacon, 22 March
To David Michie, 22 March
To Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 March
To Joseph Dougherty, 23 March
To Craven Peyton, 23 March
From Craven Peyton, 23 March
To Robert Walsh, 23 March
From Joseph Miller, 24 March
From Alden Partridge, 24 March
From John Barnes, 26 March
From John H. Cocke, 26 March
From DeWitt Clinton, 27 March
To John H. Cocke, 27 March
To George Divers, 27 March
From George Divers, 27 March
From Richard Flower, 28 March
Notes and Drawings for Barboursville, [before 29 March]
From James Barbour, 29 March
From Joseph C. Cabell, 30 March
From Peter Minor, 30 March
From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 March
To David Watson, 30 March
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 31 March
To John Wayles Eppes, 31 March
To Fernagus De Gelone, 31 March
From James Eastburn, John W. Francis, and James Smith (of New York), March
To Patrick Gibson, 1 April
To William D. Taylor, 1 April
From Hutchins G. Burton, 2 April
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 April
From Thomas Wells, 2 April
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 4 April
From Josephus B. Stuart, 5 April
From David Watson, 6 April
Albemarle County Court Order Concerning a Proposed Road, 8 April
Notes on a Proposed Albemarle County Road, [ca. 8 April]
From David Higginbotham, 8 April
From George Washington Jeffreys, 8 April
From Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 April
From Joseph Milligan, 9 April
From James Madison, 10 April
From Giovanni Carmignani, 11 April
To Nicolas G. Dufief, 11 April
From Michael H. Walsh, [11 April]
To Joseph Delaplaine, 12 April
From Alexander Garrett, 12 April
From Valentine Gill, 12 April
From Horatio G. Spafford, 12 April
From David Bailie Warden, 12 April
To James Dinsmore, 13 April
To James Madison, 13 April
To James Monroe, 13 April
To DeWitt Clinton, 14 April
To Chapman Johnson, 14 April
To John W. Maury, 14 April
From Bernard Peyton, 14 April
To James Madison, 15 April
To James Monroe, 15 April
To Craven Peyton, 15 April
From André Thoüin, 15 April
From Horatio G. Spafford, 18 April
From William Thornton, 18 April
From John Adams, 19 April
From Tristram Dalton, 22 April
From James Dinsmore, 22 April
From James Baker, 23 April
From Joseph C. Cabell, 23 April
From James Monroe, 23 April
From Elkanah Watson, 24 April
From Christopher Clark, 25 April
From DeWitt Clinton, 25 April
From John Laval, 25 April
To Archibald Robertson, 25 April
From Josephus B. Stuart, 25 April
To Patrick Gibson, 26 April
From Chapman Johnson, 26 April
From James Monroe, 27 April
From John Wayles Eppes, 28 April
To LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 28 April
From Abigail Adams, 29 April
To Fernagus De Gelone, 29 April
Memorandum to James Monroe on Scuppernong Wine, [ca. 29 April?]
To Louis H. Girardin, 30 April
Account with William Mitchell, [April]
To Hutchins G. Burton, 1 May
From Henry A. S. Dearborn, 1 May
To John Wayles Eppes, 1 May
To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 1 May
From Patrick Gibson, 1 May
To Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 1 May
To Tristram Dalton, enclosing Paper Model of Thomas Mann Randolph’s Plow, 2 May
The Founding of the University of Virginia: Central College, 1816–1819
I. Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 5 May
II. John H. Cocke’s Description of Central College Board of Visitors Meeting, [5 May]
III. Anonymous Description of Central College Board of Visitors Meeting, [5 May]
IV. Central College Subscription List, [ca. 7 May]
V. Master List of Subscribers to Central College, [after 7 May]
To Fernagus De Gelone, 6 May
To Joseph Darmsdatt, 7 May
From Isaac A. Coles, 8 May
From Fernagus De Gelone, 8 May
From Robert H. Saunders, 9 May
To William Thornton, 9 May
From Alexander Garrett, 10 May
To William Johnson, 10 May
To Josephus B. Stuart, 10 May
From George Washington Jeffreys, 11 May
Notes on the Canal Locks and Manufacturing Mill at Shadwell, 11 May
From Daniel Lescallier, 12 May
To Fernagus De Gelone, 13 May
To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 13 May
To Jean Baptiste Say, 14 May
From Isaac Briggs, 15 May
To Destutt de Tracy, 15 May
From Patrick Gibson, 17 May
To Louis A. Leschot, 18 May
From David Higginbotham, 20 May
From LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 20 May
From John Manners, 20 May
From Charles Willson Peale, 20 May
From Caspar Wistar, 20 May
From Isaac Briggs, 21 May
From Luis de Onís, 21 May
From James Gibbon, 22 May
Notes on Value of Lots in Beverley Town (Westham), [ca. 22 May]
To Patrick Gibson, 24 May
To Patrick Gibson, 25 May
To LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 25 May
From Sir John Sinclair, 25 May
To David Higginbotham, 26 May
From Tristram Dalton, 27 May
From William Thornton, enclosing Sketches for a Corinthian Pavilion, 27 May
To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 28 May
From Patrick Gibson, 28 May
From Fernagus De Gelone, 31 May
From William Caruthers, 2 June
From John Vaughan, 2 June
From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 3 June
To Lancelot Minor, 3 June
From John M. Perry, 3 [June]
To Stephen Cathalan, enclosing List of Wine and Food Ordered by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [before 6 June]
To de Bure Frères, 6 June
To John Wayles Eppes, 6 June
To Albert Gallatin, [before 6 June]
To George Ticknor, [before 6 June]
To David Bailie Warden, 6 June
To Stephen Girard, 7 June
From LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 7 June
To Elisha Ticknor, 7 June
From Edmund Bacon, 8 June
From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, enclosing Translated Extract from Isaak Iselin, Uber die Geschichte der Menschheit, 9 June
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 10 June
To Caspar Wistar, 10 June
To William Caruthers, 11 June
From William Darby, 12 June
To George Washington Jeffreys, 12 June
To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 12 June
To Alexander von Humboldt, 13 June
To Barbé Marbois, 14 June
To José Corrêa da Serra, 14 June
To George Divers, 14 June
To Daniel Lescallier, 14 June
From Dominick Lynch, 14 June
From Marc Auguste Pictet, 14 June
To Robert Simington, 14 June
To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 15 June
From William Lee, 16 June
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 16 June
Account with Mary Bacon, [ca. 17 June]
To Louis H. Girardin, 17 June
From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 17 June
From Valentine W. Southall, 18 June
From William Thornton, 18 June
From John Vaughan, 18 June, enclosing Account with Stephen Girard, 21 September 1816
To William Duane, 19 June
To Fernagus De Gelone, 19 June
To Joseph Gales (1761–1841), 19 June
To William Short, 19 June
From Daniel Brent, 20 June
To Thomas Eston Randolph, 21 June
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 21 June
To William Darby, 22 June
To James Madison, 22 June
To Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 June
From Thomas Freeborn, 23 June
To Albert Gallatin, 23 June
To Alexander Garrett, 23 June
To Patrick Gibson, 23 June
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 23 June
Conveyance of Lands for Central College from John M. Perry and Frances T. Perry to Alexander Garrett, 23 June
Agreement between John M. Perry and Central College, 23 June
To Robert H. Saunders, 23 June
From James Leitch, 24 June
To James Dinsmore, 25 June
From Peter Poinsot, 25 June
From Joseph Gales (1761–1841), 26 June
From Patrick Gibson, 26 June
To Benjamin Harrison, 26 June
To Dominick Lynch, 26 June
From Craven Peyton, 26 June
From Craven Peyton, 26 June
From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 28 June
From Richard Peters, 28 June
To Craven Peyton, 28 June
From Craven Peyton, 28 [June]
From George Crowninshield, 30 June
From Donald Fraser, 30 June
From Horatio G. Spafford, 30 June
To Patrick Gibson, 1 July
From Thomas Humphreys, 2 July
From Richard Claiborne, 4 July
From William Short, 4 July
From Solomon Henkel, 5 July
From James Clarke, 6 July
From Stephen Cathalan, 8 July
From James Rawlings, 9 July
From John Barnes, 11 July, enclosing Account with Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 11 July], and Joseph Milligan to John Barnes, 18 June, with John Barnes’s Note to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July
From Benjamin Harrison, 11 July
To Paul A. Clay, [ca. 12 July]
From José Corrêa da Serra, 12 July
From Mark L. Descaves, 15 July
From the Seventy-Six Association, 15 July
From Stephen Cathalan, 16 July
To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 16 July
From Joseph Milligan, 16 July
To Craven Peyton, 16 July
From Craven Peyton, 16 July
From John Barnes, 17 July
From Albert Gallatin, 17 July
From Harrison Hall, 17 July
To Craven Peyton, 17 July
From P. de Valltone, 17 July
Notes on the Siting of Central College, 18 July
From P. de Valltone, 18 July
To John H. Cocke, 19 July
From Jeremiah A. Goodman, 19 July
From John H. Cocke, 20 July
To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 20 July
To Fernagus De Gelone, 21 July
To John Le Tellier, 22 July
From George Divers, 23 July
George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [ca. 23 July]
Thomas Mann Randolph’s Notes on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [after 23 July]
Notes on George Divers’s Answer to Interrogatories in Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, [after 23 July]
From David Knight, 23 July
To James Madison, 23 July
From Craven Peyton, 23 July
From Hiram Storrs, 23 July
From Levett Harris, 24 July
From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 24 July
John H. Cocke’s Description of Central College Board of Visitors Meeting, 25[–28 July]
From Peter Derieux, 25 July
From Lancelot Minor, 25 July
From James Monroe, 27 July
Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 28 July
From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 28 July
From Samuel L. Osborn, 28 July
Agreement with Jeremiah A. Goodman, 30 July
From Joseph Milligan, 30 July
From John Vaughan, 30 July
From A. F. De Laage, 31 July
To James Rawlings, 31 July
To Thomas Appleton, 1 August
To James Clarke, 1 August
To Mark L. Descaves, 1 August
To the Seventy-Six Association, 1 August
From Tanner, Vallance, Kearny, & Company, 1 August
To Stephen Cathalan, 2 August
To John Vaughan, 2 August
To Levett Harris, 3 August
To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 3 August
From James Oldham, 3 August
From Andrew Alexander, 4 August
Circular to Prospective Donors to Central College, 4 August
From Fernagus De Gelone, 5 August
To Patrick Gibson, 5 August
From Hezekiah Niles, 5 August, enclosing Circular to Prominent Subscribers, 31 July
To John Wayles Eppes, 6 August
From John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane, 6 August
To Harrison Hall, 6 August
From Quinette de Rochemont, 6 August
To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 7 August
To Daniel Colclaser, 8 August
From Hugh Chisholm, 10 August
From Victor du Pont and Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 11 August
From John Le Tellier, 11 August
From James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson), 11 August
From John Patterson, 11 August
From David Whitehead, 11 August, enclosing Abraham Clark’s Recommendation of David Whitehead, 30 December 1793
From George Flower, 12 August
To David Knight, [12] August
From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 12 August
From Maxfield Ludlow, 12 August
To Archibald Robertson, [12] August
From Archibald Robertson, 12 August
From David Bailie Warden, [ca. 12–22 August]
To A. F. De Laage, [13] August
From A. F. De Laage, [13] August
To Samuel J. Harrison, Charles Johnston, and Archibald Robertson, [13] August
Trip to Natural Bridge, [ca. 13–17 August]
I. Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 17 August
II. Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August
III. Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, [after 29 August]
IV. Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist), 30 August
V. Extract of Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph (Trist) and Mary Elizabeth Randolph (Eppes), 24 September
From George Ticknor, 14 August
From James Maury, 15 August
From Robert Walsh, 15 August
From Joseph C. Cabell, 18 August
To Patrick Gibson, [18] August
From Francis W. Gilmer, 18 August
From Randolph Harrison, 18 August
To Chapman Johnson, [18] August
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 August
To Philip Thornton, [18] August
To Thomas Appleton, [20] August
To Giovanni Carmignani, [20] August
To Fernagus De Gelone, [20] August
To John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane, [22] August
From Hugh Chisholm, 23 August
Notes on Newspaper Subscriptions, [ca. 23 August]
To Hezekiah Niles, [23] August
To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, [25] August
From James Pleasants, 25 August
From James Rawlings, 25 August
From Stephen Cathalan, 27 August, enclosing Victor Adolphus Sasserno to Stephen Cathalan, 14 August, Amant Spreafico (for Pierre Mages & Compagnie) to Stephen Cathalan, 15 August, and Amant Spreafico to Stephen Cathalan, 19 August
From Absalom Townsend, [ca. 28] August
From John Martin Baker, 29 August, enclosing John Martin Baker to Richard Rush, 18 August
To Samuel L. Osborn, [29] August
Anonymous (Thomas Jefferson) to the Richmond Enquirer, [ca. 29] August
To Thomas Ritchie, [29] August
From Daniel Brent, 30 August
From Chapman Johnson, 30 August
To Hugh Chisholm, 31 August
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 August
APPENDIX: Supplemental List of Documents Not Found