I have received the copy of the papers communicated to the British Parliament, which you were so good as to forward.

    I send you a ground plot of the academic village bearing the name of the University of Virginia; this being the only graphical view of it yet taken. The buildings are finished for ten professors and about 200 students. The Rotunda, on the plan of the Pantheon, which will contain the Library and rooms for public occasions, is but just commenced; but will not delay the opening of the Institution, as soon as the Legislature turns its loans into gifts, for which we look with hope to its next session, and eligible professors can be procured, which we shall spare no pains to hasten. [I am your very humble servant]