Documentary History
of the Construction of the Buildings
at the University of Virginia, 1817-1828

Frank Edgar Grizzard, Jr.

Notes

1. Quoted in Sublette, "`Models Of Taste & Good Architecture': The Preservation of Thomas Jeffersonian Properties," University of Virginia Alumni News, 80 (October 1991), 4-5. Latrobe was the son of architect Benjamin Latrobe.

2. Margeret Bayard Smith to Anna Bayard Boyd and Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick, 2 August 1828, DLC: Papers of Margaret Bayard Smith, quoted in Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. (ed. and intr.), "`Three Grand & Interesting Objects,' An 1828 Visit to Monticello, the University, and Montpelier," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 51 (1993), 116-30; see also Hunt, The First Forty Years of Washington Society in the Family Letters of Margaret Bayard Smith 223-37. Margaret Bayard Smith (1778-1844) was the author of many stories and essays as well as two books, A Winter in Washington; or, Memoirs of the Seymour Family (1824), a two-volume novel containing anecdotes of early 19th-century Washington society, and What is Gentility? (1828). She married Samuel Harrison Smith (1772-1845), who at Jefferson's urging founded the Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser in 1800. Anna Maria was the Smiths' young daughter. John Tayloe Lomax (1781-1862) of Caroline County, Virginia, was a Fredericksburg attorney who served as the university's first professor of law from 1826 to 1830, when he resigned to sit on the bench of the state circuit court at Fredericksburg.

3. TJ to George Ticknor, 24 December 1819, DLC:TJ.

4. TJ to José Francesco Corrêa Da Serra, quoted in Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:163; see also Jefferson Cyclopedia, 900.

5. TJ to A. B. Woodward, 1825; quoted in Ford, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:342; Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, 900.

6. Smith to Anna Bayard Boyd and Jane Bayard Kirkpatrick, 12 August 1828, DLC:Margaret Bayard Smith Papers, quoted in Grizzard, "Three Grand & Interesting Objects," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 51 (1993), 116-30; see also Hunt, First Forty Years of Washington Society, 223-37.

7. Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America, 6. Peterson says that Jefferson, recognizing the dark side of the ancient world and believing that the world belonged to the living, did not long for for a "golden age" of the past but looked to the good side of the classical world in order to inform the modern predicament (Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, 50).

8. Patton, Jefferson, Cabell and the University of Virginia, 184.

9. Ibid., 184-85.

10. Kennedy, Rediscovering America, 204, 215-16.

11. Kimball, American Architecture, 83-84.