Chapter
From James P. Preston, 20 May
From John McKinney, 21 May
From Thomas Ritchie, [ca. 21 May]
From John McKinney, 23 May
From John M. Perry, 26 May
To Mordecai M. Noah, 28 May
To James P. Preston, 28 May
To Archibald Stuart, 28 May
To James Le Ray de Chaumont, 29 May
From Thomas Jordan, 29 May
Notes on Itch Lotion, [after 29 May]
From Horatio G. Spafford, 29 May
To James W. Wallace, 29 May
From Thomas A. Digges, 30 May
From Patrick Gibson, 30 May
From Archibald Stuart, 30 May
To William H. Fitzhugh, 31 May
From Caleb Atwater, 2 June
From William King (of South Carolina), 4 June
From André Thoüin, 5 June
From William Plumer, 7 June
From LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 8 June
From Peter S. Du Ponceau, enclosing Prospectus for Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, 9 June
From François André Michaux, 10 June
To Patrick Gibson, 11 June
To Bernard Peyton, 12 June
From Bernard Peyton, 13 June
To Thomas A. Digges, 15 June
From Patrick Gibson, 15 June
To John McKinney, 15 June
From James Oldham, 15 June
From John M. Perry, 18 June
From Bernard Peyton, 18 June
From Bernard Peyton, 18 June
To Joseph Darmsdatt, 19 June
To Thomas Ritchie, 19 June
To Caleb Atwater, 21 June
To Patrick Gibson, 21 June
To William Plumer, 21 June
From Thomas Cooper, enclosing Geology Syllabus, 24 June
To James Wilkinson, 25 June
From Mathew Carey & Son, 27 June
To James Madison, 28 June
To Bernard Peyton, 28 June
To Spencer Roane, 28 June
To Horatio G. Spafford, 28 June
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 28 June
Account with Reuben Perry, 29 June
From James H. McCulloch, 30 June
From John Armstrong, 1 July, enclosing Notes on Tadeusz Kosciuszko, [before 10 May]
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 1 July
From Levett Harris, 2 July
To William King (of South Carolina), 2 July
To Thomas Eston Randolph, 2 July
From Anthony Charles Cazenove, 3 July
From William S. Jacobs, 3 July
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, [received 3 July]
From Charles J. Ingersoll, 4 July
From Mathew Carey & Son, 5 July
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 6 July
To Richard N. Thweatt, 6 July
From Robert Walsh, 6 July
From Brett Randolph, 7 July
From John Wharton (1771–1845), 8 July
From Thomas Lehré, 9 July
From John H. Cocke, 10 July
From Thomas Lehré, 10 July
To John Wharton (1771–1845), 10 July
From Patrick Gibson, 11 July
From Samuel J. Harrison, 12 July
To James P. Preston, 13 July
From Edmund Bacon, 14 July
From Edmund Bacon, [ca. 14–29 July]
From John Hancock Hall, 15 July
From David Bailie Warden, 15 July
From James Madison, [16 July]
From Frank Carr, [received 18 July]
From Mr. Couscher, [received 18 July]
From John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson), 18 July
From George Rogers (for Bernard Peyton), 18 July
To John C. Calhoun, 20 July
To Patrick Gibson, 20 July
To Charles J. Ingersoll, 20 July
From Bernard Peyton, 20 July
To Levett Harris, 21 July
To Brett Randolph, 21 July
From Gerard Troost, 21 July
From James Cutbush, 22 July
From James Monroe, 22 July
From Margaret Page, 22 July
To Marc Antoine Jullien, 23 July
From William Kean, 23 July
To Franz X. Zeltner, 23 July
To William Huntington, 2[4?] July
From the Seventy-Six Association, 24 July
From Julius B. Dandridge, 25 July
Central College Donors and Founders to the University of Virginia Commissioners, [before 27 July]
Conveyance of Central College Properties to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, 27 July
From Patrick Gibson, 27 July
From Patrick Gibson, 27 July
From Edmund Bacon, 29 July
To Patrick Gibson, 29 July
To Allen Bernard, 30 July
From Joseph C. Cabell, 30 July
To Patrick Gibson, 30 July
To Charles Simms, 30 July
From James Le Ray de Chaumont, 31 July
From Richard N. Thweatt, 31 July
To Patrick Gibson, 1 August
From Robert Walsh, 1 August
From Francis Eppes, 2 August
From Julius T. Ducatel, 3 August
From Anthony Finley, 3 August
From William F. Gray, 3 August
To William Kean, 4 August
The Founding of the University of Virginia: Rockfish Gap Meeting of the University of Virginia Commissioners
I. Proceedings of Rockfish Gap Meeting of the University of Virginia Commissioners, 1–4 August
II. Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Geographic Center of Virginia’s Population, [before 28 June]
III. Thomas Jefferson’s Draft of the Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commissioners, [ca. 28 June]
IV. Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Curricular Definitions, [after 28 June]
V. Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commis- sioners, 4 August
VI. Thomas Jefferson’s Statement of Thanks to the University of Virginia Commissioners, [ca. 4 August]
From James Monroe, 4 August
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 4 August
From James Wilkinson, 4 August
From Chapman Johnson, [5 August?]
Jefferson’s Trip to Warm Springs
I. Notes on Inns Between Staunton and Warm Springs, [after 6 August]
II. Notes on Distances Between Warm Springs and Charlottesville, [after 6 August]
To Thomas Cooper, 7 August
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 7 August
From Hugh Holmes, 8 August
From Caesar A. Rodney, 8 August
From Joseph Milligan, 10 August
From George Ticknor, 10 August
From Stephen Cathalan, 13 August
From John Steele, 13 August
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 August
Memorandum to William Alston on Wine, 15 August
Recommendation of Edmund Bacon, 15 August
From Charles G. Haines, 18 August
From Victor Adolphus Sasserno, 18 August
From Ate. Bourier, 20 August
From Nathaniel Bowditch, 20 August
From Robert B. Stark, 20 August
From Thomas Cooper, 21 August
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 21 August
Promissory Note to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 21 August
From Spencer Roane, 22 August
From Thomas Appleton, 26 August
From Thomas Cooper, 26 August
From William D. Simms, 28 August
From Richard Claiborne, 29 [August]
From Thomas Cooper, 1 September
From Robert Miller (1775–1861), enclosing Notes on Occult Knowledge, 1 September
From Thomas Cooper, 2 September
From Thomas Cooper, 3 September
From James Monroe, 3 September
From Stephen Cathalan, 7 September
From Archibald Stuart, 8 September
Albemarle County Court Order Concerning a Proposed Road, 8 September
From James Monroe, 9 September
To Patrick Gibson, 10 September
To Francis Eppes, 11 September
From Honoré Julien, 11 September
To Joel Yancey, 11 September
To Thomas Cooper, 12 September
From Peter Poinsot, 12 September
From Patrick Gibson, 14 September
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 14 September
From Craven Peyton, 14 September
From José Corrêa da Serra, 16 September
From Patrick Gibson, 17 September
From James Monroe, 17 September
To James Monroe, 17 September
From Thomas Cooper, 18 September
To Richard N. Thweatt, 18 September
From Mathew Carey & Son, 21 September
From DeWitt Clinton, 21 September
From Joseph Dougherty, 21 September
From Patrick Gibson, 24 September
From James Maury, 25 September
From William J. Coffee, 26 September
From John Vaughan, 26 September
From Reuben G. Beasley, 28 September
From Alfred H. Dashiell, September
From de Bure Frères, enclosing Invoice of Books, 22 September, and Account, 1 October
From C. S. Haven, 2 October
From Joseph Hutton, 2 October
From Thomas Cooper, 3 October
From James Monroe, 3 October
To Thomas Cooper, 4 October
To James Monroe, 5 October
To William Alston, 6 October
To James Breckinridge, 6 October
To Mathew Carey, 6 October
To William J. Coffee, 6 October
From Thomas Cooper, 6 October
To Joseph Dougherty, 6 October
To Honoré Julien, 6 October
To James Monroe, 6 October
To John Vaughan, 6 October
To Anthony Finley, 7 October
To William F. Gray, 7 October
To Caesar A. Rodney, 7 October
To Robert B. Stark, 7 October
To DeWitt Clinton, 8 October
To Charles G. Haines, 8 October
From James Madison, [ca. 8 October]
From Lewis D. Belair, 9 October
From Josiah Meigs, 12 October
To Bernard Peyton, 13 October
From Honoré Julien, 14 October
From Victor Adolphus Sasserno, 14 October
From Mathew Carey, 16 October
From Anonymous Republicans in Charleston, South Carolina, 16 October
From John Barnes, enclosing John Barnes’s Account with Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 17 October
From John Wayles Eppes, 17 October
From Joseph Milligan, 17 October
To Patrick Gibson, 18 October
To Robert Patterson, 18 October
From Martin Dawson, 19 October, with Jefferson’s Note, 11 November
From John Adams, 20 October
From John H. Cocke, 20 October
From Bernard Peyton, 20 October
From Patrick Gibson, 21 October
From Thomas W. Maury, 21 October
From William F. Gray, 22 October
From John Trumbull, 23 October, enclosing “Detector” to Editor of the New York National Advocate, [ca. 20 October], and John Trumbull to “Detector,” [ca. 20] October
From Joseph C. Cabell, 24 October
From de Bure Frères, 24 October
To Joseph Milligan, 25 October
To Joseph Milligan, [ca. 25 October]
To Richard Rush, 25 October
To Elisha Ticknor, 25 October
To George Ticknor, 25 October
To Nathaniel Bowditch, 26 October
To Lewis D. Belair, 27 October
To William J. Coffee, 27 October
To Henry Dearborn, 27 October
To Charles Simms, 27 October
To John Steele, 27 October
From Thomas Brown, 28 October
From George Wyche, 28 October
From Bernard Peyton, 29 October
From Richard N. Thweatt, 29 October
From Joseph Milligan, 30 October
From Peter J. Zeltner, [received 30 October]
From Franciszek Paszkowski, 1 November
To Patrick Gibson, 3 November
From George Washington Jeffreys, 3 November
From Nathaniel Bowditch, 4 November
From Lewis D. Belair, 6 November
From Henry Dearborn, 6 November
From William S. Murphy, 6 November
From Henry E. Watkins, 6 November
From William J. Coffee, enclosing Memorandum on Roman Cement, 7 November
Agreement by John M. Perry to Sell Lands to Central College, 7 November
From John Stevens, 7 November
To William F. Gray, enclosing Bookbinding Directions, 8 November
To Honoré Julien, 8 November
To John Neilson, 8 November
From Robert Walsh, 8 November
From William Alston, 10 November
From Thomas Appleton, 10 November
To Thomas Brown, 10 November
To William H. Crawford, 10 November
James Dinsmore’s Report on Tin to Central College Board of Visitors, 10 November
To John Farrar, 10 November
To William Short, 10 November
To William Wirt, 10 November
To George Wyche, 10 November
To Joel Yancey, enclosing List of Blankets and Beds to be Distributed to Poplar Forest Slaves, and Sawing Instructions for James Martin, 10 November
To John Barnes, 11 November
To Andrew Kean, 11 November
To John Trumbull, 11 November
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 12 November
From Francois Redon (for Lewis D. Belair), 12 November
To John Adams, 13 November
From Patrick Gibson, 13 November
To Lewis D. Belair, 16 November
From William Short, 17 November
From Joseph C. Cabell, 18 November
From James Dinsmore, 18 November
From William Craig, 19 November
The Founding of the University of Virginia: The University Bill
Thomas Jefferson’s Bill to Establish a University, [between 19 November and 14 December]
To Linn Banks and Edward Watts, 20 November
To Joseph C. Cabell, 20 November
From Joseph Milligan, 20 November
From Daniel Pettibone, enclosing Circular Letter, 20 November
Notes on Roman Cement, [ca. 21 November]
To Mathew Carey, 22 November
To Lewis D. Belair, 23 November
To Lafayette, 23 November
From James Monroe, 23 November
From Franklin G. Smith, enclosing Design for Improvement of the Printing Press, 23 November
To John Stevens, 23 November
From Cérès de Montcarel, 24 November
To Destutt de Tracy, 24 November
To Albert Gallatin, 24 November
To David Bailie Warden, 24 November
From Burgess Allison, 25 November
From Charles Willson Peale, 25 November
To Peter Poinsot, 25 November
From Lewis D. Belair, 26 November
From Francis Eppes, 26 November
From Francis W. Gilmer, 26 November
From Craven Peyton, 26 November
From Marie Louise Martel Walsh, 26 November
To Daniel Brent, 27 November
To James Brownlee, 27 November
To John C. Calhoun, 27 November
From Thomas B. Parker, 27 November
To Craven Peyton, 27 November
To Henry E. Watkins, 27 November
From William A. Burwell, 28 November
To Mathew Carey, 28 November
To James H. McCulloch, 28 November
To Burgess Allison, 29 November
To Cérès de Montcarel, 29 November
To Joseph Milligan, 29 November
From John Barnes, [30] November
From Stephen Cathalan, 30 November, enclosing Stephen Cathalan to Joseph Jones, 21 October, Invoice of Items Shipped to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October, Invoice of Items Shipped to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 26 October, and Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Stephen Cathalan, 30 November
From William F. Gray, 30 November
From Samuel Knox, 30 November
To Frederick A. Mayo, 30 November
From Alfred H. Dashiell, 1 December
From Thomas Fillebrown, 1 December
From Patrick Gibson, 3 December
From Jean Guillaume Hyde de Neuville, 3 December
From Andrew Kean, 3 December
Anecdotes of Benjamin Franklin, [ca. 4 December]
From John G. Jackson, 4 December
To Robert Walsh, 4 December
From Daniel Brent, 5 December
From Hugh Holmes, 6 December
To John Barnes, 7 December
From Mathew Carey & Son, 7 December
To Thomas Fillebrown, 7 December
To Joseph Gales (1786–1860), 7 December
To Thomas Ritchie, 7 December
To John Vaughan, 7 December
From John Adams, 8 December
From Joseph C. Cabell, 8 December
To Lewis D. Belair, 9 December
To William Duane, 9 December
To Patrick Gibson, 9 December
To Joseph Milligan, 9 December
To Hezekiah Niles, 9 December
From Joseph M. Sanderson, 9 December
To John Wood (of New York), 9 December
From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 10 December
To Alfred H. Dashiell, 11 December
To Samuel Knox, 11 December
From Francis Preston, 11 December
From John Vaughan, 11 December
From John Barnes, 12 December
From William Short, 12 December
To Jean Guillaume Hyde de Neuville, 13 December
From Joseph C. Cabell, 14 December
From Patrick Gibson, 14 December
From James H. McCulloch, 14 December
From David M. Randolph (1798–1825), 14 December
From Fernagus De Gelone, 15 December
From George H. Richards, 15 December
From Samuel Butler (for Hezekiah Niles), 16 December
From Joseph C. Cabell, 17 December
From Joseph C. Cabell, 17 December
From Anonymous, 18 December
From Dabney Cosby, 18 December
From Anonymous, 19 December
From Anonymous, [between 19 December 1818 and 7 January 1819]
From James Riley, 19 December
To John Barnes, 21 December
To Stephen Cathalan, 21 December
To Hugh Holmes, 21 December
To Frederick A. Mayo, 21 December
From James Monroe, 21 December
From Elisabetta Mazzei Pini and Andrea Pini, 21 December
To Francis Preston, 21 December
To David M. Randolph (1798–1825), 21 December
To William Short, 21 December
To Dugald Stewart, 21 December
From Joseph Delaplaine, 22 December
From John Laval, 23 December
From John Bent, 24 December
From Joseph C. Cabell, 24 December
From Robert Walsh, 24 December
From Joel Yancey, 24 December
To Abraham Lange, 25 December
From Joseph Milligan, 25 December
From Milton W. Rouse, [ca. 25 December]
To Dabney Cosby, 26 December
To Louis H. Girardin, 26 December
From James Oldham, 26 December
From John M. Perry, 26 December
To Fernagus De Gelone, 27 December
To John G. Jackson, 27 December
From John Martin Baker, 28 December
From José Corrêa da Serra, 28 December
To Louis A. Leschot, 28 December
From William Wirt, 28 December
From John Adams, 30 December, enclosing Edward T. Channing to William S. Shaw, 10 December
From Kershaw & Lewis, 30 December
To William Radford and Joel Yancey, 31 December
To George H. Richards, 31 December
To James Riley, 31 December
Estimate of Funds and Expenditures for Central College/University of Virginia, 1818–1819
To Joseph C. Cabell, 1 January
To Francis Eppes, 1 January
From Alexander Murray, 1 January
To James Oldham, 1 January
From Charles Willson Peale, 1 January
From Dominic W. Boudet, 2 January
From Bernard Peyton, 2 January
From John Barnes, 4 January
From Thomas C. Flournoy, 4 January
From Alexander Macdonald, 4 January
From Nathaniel Macon, 4 January
To Joel Yancey, 4 January
From Thomas Cooper, 5 January
From Gabriel Crane, enclosing Essay on Light as an Element, 5 January
From Solidor Milon, 5 January
From William Alston, 6 January
From John Patterson, 6 January
From Joseph C. Cabell, 7 January
From Fernagus De Gelone, 7 January
From Frederick A. Mayo, 7 January
From Gulian C. Verplanck, 7 January
From John Wayles Eppes, 8 January
From Joseph Jones, 8 January
From Joel Yancey, 9 January
From Daniel Brent, 10 January
From “Common Sense & Co.,” 12 January
From Jonas Horwitz, 12 January
To Nathaniel Macon, 12 January
From Joseph Milligan, [before 12 January]
To Joseph Milligan, 12 January
From Mathew Carey & Son, 13 January
From Simeon DeWitt, 13 January
From William Tudor, 13 January
To Joseph Jones, 15 January
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 January
From John Forsyth, 16 January
To Nathaniel Potter, 17 January
To Joel Yancey, 17 January
From Joseph C. Cabell, 18 January
From Mathew Carey & Son, 18 January
From Joseph Jones, 18 January
From Joseph Milligan, 18 January
To James Monroe, 18 January
To Bernard Peyton, 18 January
To John Adams, 19 January
From William C. Rives, 20 January
From William Young, 20 January
From Joseph C. Cabell, 21 January
From John C. Calhoun, 21 January
From the Jefferson Benevolent Institution of Pennsylvania, 21 January
From Bernard Peyton, 21 January
To Thomas Cooper, 22 January
To Fernagus De Gelone, 22 January
From Robert Patterson, 23 January
To Simeon DeWitt, 24 January
To Richard Duke, 24 January
To Thomas C. Flournoy, 24 January
To Abraham Lange, 24 January
To Gulian C. Verplanck, 24 January
From Edmund Bacon, 25 January
From Joseph C. Cabell, 25 January
To John H. Cocke, 25 January
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 25 January
From Robert Walsh, 25 January
From Patrick Gibson, 26 January
From Joel Yancey, [before 26] January
To Joseph Jones, 27 January
To Charles K. Mallory, 27 January
To Joseph C. Cabell, 28 January
From Fernagus De Gelone, 28 January
From “Franklin,” enclosing Address by “Franklin” to Western Citizens, 28 January
From Alexander Garrett, [28] January
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 28 January
From James Riley, 28 January
To William C. Rives, 28 January
From John Adams, 29 January
To Mathew Carey, 29 January
To Joseph Miller, 30 January
To Lewis D. Belair, 31 January
To John Patterson, 31 January
To William Tudor, 31 January
To Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 January
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