hsrpav1: Notes File

Note: 1 Thomas Jefferson (hereafter, TJ) to James Breckenridge, July 8, 1819, Jefferson Papers, University of Virginia. Hereafter, the name of this collection is omitted from these notes. [back]

Note: 2 Proctors' Papers, George W. Spooner to Arthur S. Brockenbrough (hereafter, ASB), Aug. 9, 1819, Manuscripts Division, University of Virginia Library. Hereafter, Proctors' Papers. [back]

Note: 3 It was the Visitors of the Central College, not the Visitors of the newly chartered University of Virginia, who met in February, 1818, "to continue the exercise of our former functions, and to fulfill the duties of our successors." University of Central College, Board of Visitors, Minutes, Feb. 26, 1819. The Visitors of the University of Virginia held their first official meeting on March 29, 1819. Jefferson wrote Joseph Cabell, another of the Visitors, on Feb. 19, 1819: "The lateness of the day (Mar. 29) appointed for their 1st meeting renders that of the present set immediately necessary, as we should otherwise lose the chance of employing workmen, & consequently lose a year in our preparation. . . . I have requested a meeting of the Visitors at " Mr Madison's on Friday next. . . TJ to Joseph Cabell, Feb. 19, 1819. [back]

Note: 4 University of Virginia, Board of Visitors, Minutes, February 26, 1819, Manuscripts Divisions, University of Virginia Library. Hereafter, BV, Minutes. [back]

Note: 5 BV, Minutes, May 7, 1817. [back]

Note: 6 TJ to Cabell, Oct. 24, 1817. [back]

Note: 7 TJ to Hugh Chisholm, Aug. 31, 1817. [back]

Note: 8 BV, Minutes, Oct. 4, 1819. [back]

Note: 9 BV Minutes, Oct. 7, 1817. [back]

Note: 10 Proctors' Papers, Spooner to ASB, Aug. 20, 1819. [back]

Note: 11 Charles Cocke to TJ, May 3, 1819. TJ to Breckenridge, July 8, 1819. [back]

Note: 12 TJ to Breckenridge, July 8, 1819. [back]

Note: 13 BV, Minutes, Oct. 4, 1819. TJ and Cocke to Thomas Cooper, Oct. 15, 1819. [back]

Note: 14 TJ and Cocke to Cooper, Oct. 15, 1819. [back]

Note: 15 TJ to ASB, June 5, 1819. [back]

Note: 16 TJ to AS , June 27, 1819. [back]

Note: 17 Richmond Enquirer, March 12, 1819. TJ to Joseph C. Cabell, March 6, 1819. TJ to Dabney Car , March 11, 1819. Cabell to TJ, March 12, 1819. [back]

Note: 18 TJ to Breckenridge, July 8, 1819. [back]

Note: 19 Ware to Nelson Barksdale , March 26, 1819. [back]

Note: 20 TJ to Breckenridg , July 8, 1819. [back]

Note: 21 Curtis Carter and William Phillips to TJ, March 24, 1819. [back]

Note: 22 TJ to Latrobe, July 16, 1817, in Thomas Jefferson Architect, Original Designs in the Coolidge Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society , essay by Fiske Kimball and new introduction by Frederick Doveton Nichols (1916; reprint ea., New York: DaCapo Press, 1968), p. 189. TJ to Cabell, Dec. 19, 1817, in Nathaniel Francis Cabell, ed., Early History of the University of Virginia as Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell (Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1856), p. 88. [back]

Note: 23 TJ to Carter and Phillips, April 9, 1819. [back]

Note: 24 TJ to Richard Ware, April 9, 1819. [back]

Note: 25 TJ to ASB, May 17, 1819. [back]

Note: 26 TJ to ASB, May 28, 1819. [back]

Note: 27 TJ to ASB, June 5, 1819. [back]

Note: 28 TJ to ASB, May 28, 1819. [back]

Note: 29 TJ to Hugh Chisholm, Aug. 31, 1817. [back]

Note: 30 TJ to ASB, June 27, 1819. [back]

Note: 31 TJ to Breckenridge, July 8, 1819. [back]

Note: 32 Proctors' Papers, Spooner to ASB, August 20, 1819. [back]

Note: 33 N. Turner to all whom it may concern, Aug. 31, 1818. The 1819 Richmond city directory listed Phillips as a "brick-layer." Phillips remained in Charlottesville through 1861 and bought hundreds of acres of land on which he built brick houses. Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia (Charlottesville: The Mitchie Co., Printers, 1901), p. 296. [back]

Note: 34 Mary Wingfield Scott, Houses of Old Richmond (Richmond: The Valentine Museum, 1941; reprint ea., Bonanza Books, n.d.),pp. 115-117, 146. There may have been a family relationship between Dr. Brockenbough and Arthur Brockenbough, Proctor of the University; both resided in Richmond. [back]

Note: 35 Philip Alexander Bruce, History of the University of Virginia 1819-1919 (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1921), I, 253. [back]

Note: 36 TJ to ASB, May 17, 1819. [back]

Note: 37 TJ to ASB, Sept. 1, 1819. [back]

Note: 38 Bruce, I, p. 252. ASB to TJ, June 7, 1820. [back]

Note: 39 TJ to James Dinsmore, Dec. 1, 1802. [back]

Note: 40 James Oldham to Barksdal , March 27, 1819. [back]

Note: 41 Oldham to TJ, April 3, 1819. [back]

Note: 42 Proctors' Papers, Spooner to ASB, August 13, 1819. [back]

Note: 43 BV, Minutes, Oct. 7, 1817. [back]

Note: 44 TJ to Oldham, Dec. 24, 1804. This book is listed as number 94 in William Bainter O'Neal, Jefferson's Fine Arts Library (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976), pp. 273-277. [back]

Note: 45 BV, Minutes, May 5, 1817. [back]

Note: 46 TJ to William Thornton, May 9, 1817. [back]

Note: 47 O'Neal, p. 118. TJ, specifications for University of Virginia. [back]

Note: 48 The edition of Chambray that Jefferson owned was issued in French in 1766. Jefferson's copy is preserved in the Library of Congress. He used it as well in building Monticello. O'Nea , p. 118. This English translation is from John Evelyn, A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern. . . Written in French by Roland Fréart, Sieur de Chambray . Made English for the Benefit of Builders, 4th edition (London: Printed by T. W. for J. Wathoe et al, 1733), p. 22. [back]

Note: 49 Oldham to TJ, June 21, 1819. [back]

Note: 50 Ibid. [back]

Note: 51 Oldham to TJ, June 21, 1819, and Aug. 25, 1822. [back]

Note: 52 Proctors' Papers, Ledger, 1819-1828, Account for Pavilion I. [back]

Note: 53 TJ to Oldham, Jan. 3, 1822. [back]

Note: 54 William B. O'Neal, "The Workmen at the University of Virginia 1817-1826 with Notes and Documents,"; The Magazine of Albemarle County History, Vol. 17 (1958-1959) , pp. 15-16. Oldham died in 1843. Edgar Woods wrote in Albemarle County in Virginia , p. 292, that Oldham later kept "a house of public entertainment" and was reputed to have "an irascible temper."[back]

Note: 55 TJ to ASB, Aug. 17, 1819. [back]

Note: 56 TJ to ASB, July 29, 1819. [back]

Note: 57 TJ to ASB, Aug. 17, 1819. [back]

Note: 58 Bruce, I, p. 254. [back]

Note: 59 ASB to TJ, March 29, 1821. [back]

Note: 60 Proctors' Papers, Ledger, 1819-1828, Account for Pavilion I. [back]

Note: 61 BV, Minutes, Feb. 26, 1819. In 1822, however, Jefferson had first hoped to use slate for the roofs. TJ to Bernard Peyton, June 12, 1818. [back]

Note: 62 62. TJ to John Barnes , Sept. 16, 1795. TJ to James Dinsmore, Dec. 1, 1802. [back]

Note: 63 TJ to Yancey, July 23, 1821, in Kimball, pp. 193-194. [back]

Note: 64 Bruce, I, p. 252. Bruce uses the spelling of Brooks; in the Jefferson Papers, the name is also spelled Brook, Brooke, and Brookes. [back]

Note: 65 Dinsmore to TJ, Nov. 10. 1818. [back]

Note: 66 Proctors' Papers, Ledger, 1819-1828, Account for Tin. Payments totalling $2,461.00 were made to D. M. & C. Warwick during 1820 and 1821, possibly for tinplates. This account also included payments in 1820 and 1822 to John Van Lew totalling $505.00. The 1819 Richmond city directory listed Daniel Warwick as a merchant and John Vanlew & Co. as merchants. [back]

Note: 67 Yancey to TJ, July 4, 1822, in Kimball, p. 194. [back]

Note: 68 TJ to Yancey, July 12, 1822, in Kimball, p. 194-195. [back]

Note: 69 TJ to ASB, May 5, 1826. [back]

Note: 70Francis Eppes to TJ, June 23, 1826, in Barbara McEwan, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest (Lynchburg: Warwick House Publishing, 1987), p. 56. [back]

Note: 71 TJ to ASB, April 20, 1821. [back]

Note: 72 TJ to Charles F. Kupfer, June 15, 1819. [back]

Note: 73 Joseph Antrim, Plasterer's Bid, Dec. 17, 1817. [back]

Note: 74 Proctors' Papers, Ledger, 1819-1828, Account for Pavilion I. [back]

Note: 75 TJ, Sept. 25, 1824. [back]

Note: 76 William J. Coffee (hereafter, WJC) to TJ, Nov. 7, 1818. In addition to correspondence in the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, there are 28 letters between TJ and WJC in the Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress. [back]

Note: 77 George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1561-1860 (New York: Yale University Press, 1957), p. 135. [back]

Note: 78 ASB to TJ, July 23 and Sept. 25, 1825. Proctors' Papers, WJC to ASB, July 12, 1825. [back]

Note: 79 ASB to TJ, July 23, 1825. Jefferson, however, thought that there were "probably workmen in that line" in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston. TJ to AS , July 24, 1825. [back]

Note: 80 Proctors' Papers, WJC to ASB, Sept. 4, 1825. [back]

Note: 81 Proctors' Papers, Ledger, 1819-1828, Account for Pavilion I. [back]

Note: 82 TJ to WJC, April 10, 1823, in O'Neal, "Workmen," pp. 43-46. [back]

Note: 83 TJ to ASB, Feb. 8, 1822. [back]

Note: 84 WJC to TJ, Jan. 3 and Feb. 15, 1823. [back]

Note: 85 TJ to WJC, July 10, 1822, in O'Neal Jefferson's Fine Arts Library , p. 24. [back]

Note: 86 WJC to TJ, Jan. 3, 1823. Some idea of the facilities of the Rising States is supplied by this advertisement which appeared in the Mercantile Advertiser (New York) of Sept. 12, 1815: "The Schooner RISING-STATES, will sail for Martinique on the 22d inst. For freight of one or two hundred bbls. and passage, having spacious accommodations, apply to the Captain on board; or to JEREMIAH BURROUGHS, 32 Beekman slip." [back]

Note: 87 TJ to WJC, April 30, 1823. [back]

Note: 88 Ibid. [back]

Note: 89 ASB to TJ, Oct. 1, 1825. [back]

Note: 90 WJC to TJ, Sept. 25, 1825. This was probably a reference to Notre Dame cathedral in Montreal. [back]

Note: 91 TJ to John Eppes, June 30, 1820. [back]

Note: 92 Annual Report of the Board of Visitors to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, Oct. 7, 1822, published in the Charlottesville Central Gazette , Jan. 10, 1823. [back]

Note: 93 Ibid. [back]

Note: 94 BV, Minutes, Oct. 7, 1822, and Oct. 6, 1823. [back]

Note: 95 Annual Report of Board of Visitors to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, October 5, 1824, and October 7, 1826. [back]

Note: 96 BV, Minutes, Oct. 6, 1823. [back]

Note: 97 Proctors' Papers, Ledger, 1819-1828, Account for Pavilion I. [back]

Note: 98 John S. Patton, Jefferson, Cabell and the University of Virginia (New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Co., 1906), pp. 290-291. [back]

Note: 99 Bruce , II, p. 381. [back]

Note: 100 BV, Minutes, July 21, 1830. [back]

Note: 101 Bruce, II, pp. 381-382. [back]

Note: 102 BV, Minutes, July 19, 1833. [back]

Note: 103 BV, Minutes, Aug. 12, 1836. [back]

Note: 104 John E. Semmes, John H. B. Latrobe and His Times 1803-1891 (Baltimore, The Norman, Remington Co., 1917), p. 247. [back]

Note: 105 BV, Minutes, July 22, 1828. [back]

Note: 106 BV, Minutes, July 17, 1832. [back]

Note: 107 BV, Minutes, July 4, 1842. [back]

Note: 108 BV, Minutes, Sept. 25, 1850. [back]

Note: 109 Bruce, II, 385; IV, p. 193. [back]

Note: 110 Bruce, IV, pp. 261. [back]

Note: 111 Bruce, V, p. 319. [back]

Note: 112 TJ to John Eppes, June 30, 1820. [back]

Note: 1 Presentation of the Restored Gardens of the University of Virginia by The Garden Club of Virginia April 24, 1952. Charlottesville, Garden Club of America, 1952. [back]

Note: 2 Betts, Edwin Morris, annotator, Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824, With Relevent Extracts from His Other Writings (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1924) , plate XXIV, opposite p. 335. [back]

Note: 3 Boyd, Julian P ., ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson , Volume 9. (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1954), p. 372. [back]

Note: 4 Ibid. p. 390. [back]

Note: 5 See survey of M'Mahon editors in Ewan, Joseph. "Bernard M'Mahon (c. 1775-1816), Pioneer Philadelphia Nurseryman, and his American Gardener's Calendar," Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History , Vol. 3, Part 7 (October, 1960), pp. 363-380. [back]

Note: 6 Williams, Dorothy Hunt, Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservations by The Garden Club of Virginia (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1975). [back]

Note: 7 Presentation of the Restored Gardens of the University of Virginia . [back]