There are some novelties in it. Of that of a professorship of
the principles of government, you express your approbation. They will be
founded in the rights of man. That of agriculture, I am sure, you will
approve: and that also of Anglo-Saxon. As the histories and laws left us
in that type and dialect, must be the text-books of the reading of the
learners, they will imbibe with the language their free principles
of government. The volumes you have been so kind as to send, shall be
placed in the library of the University. Having at this time in England
a person sent for the purpose of selecting some Professors, a Mr.
Gilmer of my neighborhood, I cannot but recommend him to your patronage,
counsel, and guardianship, against imposition, misinformation, and the
deceptions of partial and false recommendations, in the selection
of characters. He is a gentleman of great worth and correctness, my
particular friend, well educated in various branches of science, and
worthy of entire confidence.
Your age of eighty-four and mine of eighty-one years, insure us a speedy
meeting. We may then commune at leisure, and more fully, on the good and
evil, which in the course of our long lives, we have.both witnessed; and
in the mean time, I pray you to accept assurances of my high veneration
and esteem for your person and character.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CLXXXII.--TO MARTIN VAN BUREN, June 29, 1824
TO MARTIN VAN BUREN.
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