The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
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EDUCATION / STATE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Our University, four miles distant, gives me frequent exercise, and
the oftener, as I direct its architecture. Its plan is unique, and it
is becoming an object of curiosity for the traveler. I have lately had
an opportunity of reading a critique on this institution in your North
American Review of January last, having been not without anxiety to
see what that able work would say of us; and I was relieved on finding
in it much coincidence of opinion, and even whether criticisms were
indulged, I found they would have been obviated had the developments
of our plan been fuller.
to John Adams, 15 August 1820
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