Correspondence concerning an 1810 Thomas Jefferson letter [manuscript], 1923.

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Correspondence concerning an 1810 Thomas Jefferson letter [manuscript], 1923.

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In the 1810 letter Jefferson writes to Hugh L. White and unnamed "Gentlemen" connected with East Tennessee College regretting that he cannot dispose of lottery tickets for the benefit of the college as he is rarely from home. He claims disapproval of lotteries however beneficial the cause and urges the gentlemen to invest the fund they already have. Jefferson continues with his views on college architecture, describing how an "academical village" would be superior to one single large building which becomes "a common den of noise, of filth, and of fetid air," whereas a village "would afford that quiet retirement so friendly to study, and lessen the dangers of fire, infection and tumult" with each professor serving as "police officer of the students adjacent to his own lodge." In a letter, 1923 February 28, Walter L. Fleming, professor of history at Vanderbilt, writes to Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, enclosing the above copy of Jefferson's letter in the possession of the Tennessee Historical Society on deposit at Vanderbilt. Alderman replies, 1923 March 10, thanking Fleming and mentioning an article he is writing on a letter from William Short to James Madison.

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