A Guide to the Correspondence, Reports,
Petitions and Resolutions Relating to the Construction,
Staffing and Governance of the University of Virginia,
1821 (1825-1826) Board of Visitors, University of
Virginia,
RG-1/3/3.801
Special Collections, University of Virginia
Library
Accession number
RG-1/3/3.801
Title
Correspondence, Reports, Petitions and Resolutions
Relating to the Construction, Staffing and Governance of the
University of Virginia
1821
(1825-1826)
Correspondence, Reports, Petitions and Resolutions
Relating to the Construction, Staffing and Governance of
the University of Virginia, Accession #RG-1/3/3.801,
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library,
Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection is an archival transfer (provenance
unknown), found in UVA Chronological file on 1980 July
17.
Correspondence, reports, petitions, and resolutions
relating to the construction, staffing, and governance of the
University, particularly during the student unrest of October
1826, bearing endorsements by Thomas Jefferson
Correspondents include A. S. Brockenbrough, John Patton
Emmet, Thomas H. Key, George Long, and George W. Spotswood.
Authors of reports include Charles Bonnycastle, Robley
Dunglison and George Tucker.
Owen Reynolds to
L[ouis] H. Giradin
re: application for professorship of mathematics,
endorsed by Thomas Jefferson
1821 Aug 10
ALS, 3 p.
Philip Sturtevant to
A[rthur]
S[picer] Brockenbrough re: timber for
composite capitals, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson
1825 Jun 6
ALS, 2 p.
Petition of students to Visitors of the
University of Virginia, requesting division of term and
longer vacation, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson
1825 Sep
3:00 PM
DS, Faculty resolution on disgraceful conduct
of student by George Tucker, chairman of the faculty of
the University of Virginia, 2 p., and ADS by Robley
Dunglison, secretary, 1 p., both endorsed by Thomas
Jefferson.
1825 Oct 2
Resolution of students of the University of
Virginia not to divulge names of rioters, copy, endorsed
by Thomas Jefferson
1825 Oct 3?
3:00 PM
Faculty to [Visitors of the University of
Virginia] re: reprimands and expulsions of student
rioters, 1 p. List of rioters, three expulsion orders
signed by Robley Dunglison and George Tucker, 3p.,
copies, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson.
1825 Oct 6
T[homas] H. Key and
George Long to Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia, letter of resignation, endorsed by Thomas
Jefferson.
1825 Oct 6
ALS, 1 p.
T[homas] H. Key and
George Long to Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia, requesting clarification of terms of
resignations, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson.
1825 Oct 6
ALS, 1 p.
Student petition to the European faculty of
the University of Virginia, denying intent to offend,
endorsed by Thomas Jefferson.
1825 Oct
ADS, 3 p.
Philip Sturtevant to Arthur
S[picer] Brockenbrough re: price of composite
capitals, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson.
1826 Jan 1
ALS, 2 p.
Arthur
S[picer] Brockenbrough to Rector and Visitors
of the University of Virginia re: composite capitals
offered by Philip Sturtevant, endorsed by Thomas
Jefferson.
1826 Apr 2
ALS, 1 p.
Geo[rge] W.
Spotswood to Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia re: unsafe habitation, endorsed by Thomas
Jefferson.
1826 Apr 3
ALS, 2 p.
ALS, John
P[atton] Emmet to
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia,
submitting two reports by faculty committees, endorsed
by Thomas Jefferson, 1 p., report on need for police, by
Bonnycastle, Tucker, and Emmet, 4 p., and report on
enactments concerning student disorders by Key, Long,
and Blaettermann, 4 p.
1826 Apr 3
G[eorge] Long to
Visitors of the University of Virginia re: requirements
for diploma in Greek, endorsed by Thomas Jefferson.
[ante 1826 Jul 4]
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