THOMAS JEFFERSON, MINUTES of the BOARD OF VISITORS of CENTRAL COLLEGE and the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA., 1817/1826

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Official minutes of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, kept by T. J. as Rector from 1817-1826. The earlier notes are signed by T. J. and other members of the Board, Joseph C. Cabell, John Hartwell Cocke, James Madison, James Monroe, and David Watson. Members of the Board in later years who did not sign: James Breckenridge, Chapman Johnson, George Loyall, and Robert B. Taylor. The University of Virginia also owns preliminary notes made by T. J. for later copying (35 pp.), as well as the copies of the minutes belonging to Joseph C. Cabell, John Hartwell Cocke, James Monroe, and James Breckenridge. Some of the notes date from 1814, with the minutes of the Trustees of Albemarle Academy. The minutes after the spring meeting of 1826 (pp. 107-185) in this volume are in the hand of the Secretary of the Board, Nicholas P. Trist. (See "Bibliography of Unprinted Official Records" in sixth Annual Report of the Archivist, University of Virginia, 1935-36). [1517]

Physical description:

ADS. MS. Vol. 208 pp. (105 pp. in T. J.'s hand (including 11 pp. in other hands signed by T. J.)). Printed: L B XIX 361-499.

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