| | 141 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes  | | | | Published: | 1898 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | At a regular annual meeting of the Board of Visitors of
the University of Virginia held at the University on the 13th
of June 1898. You may recall that last summer a part of the piece of
real estate owned by the trustees under Mr Austin's will was
taken by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for park purposes.
This left a small piece of the estate, containing about 5000
square feet, with restrictions against building on a part of
it, thus rendering the lot really unavailable. We have now
received an offer of $800.00 for this piece of land, which we
consider it would be advantageous for the estate to accept.
We have therefore prepared a petition to the probate court
for leave to sell the remainder of the estate. If this meets
with your approval will you kindly sign the assent to the enclosed
petition, and as the purchaser is in something of a
hurry, I would ask you to return the petition at your earliest
convenience. The Board of Visitors met in pursuance of adjournment
on yesterday. The Board met pursuant to adjournment on yesterday.
Present the same members as on yesterday, with the exception
of Mr Glass who was called home. I enclose to you herewith cheque for $20,000.00
being a gift from the J. W. and Belinda Randall Charities
Corporation, which was voted to you by the trustees on June
10th, 1898. With this gift goes a copy of the vote under
which you must receive this gift or return it to me as trea-
surer. Referring to interview with you this A. M.
in relation to caring for securities and handling the Sinking
Fund Accounts of the University,- We beg to state our
construction of agreement arrived at and if correct will be
pleased to have you confirm same. I am in receipt of your letter of July 19th, I beg
to State that my understanding of our agreement concurs with
yours therein expressed, We have your favor 22nd and are in receipt of
securities listed in same by Express. We register on our books
153 bonds $500. each, $76,500. in name of Rector and Board of
Visitors of University of Virginia, and hold the same for safe
keeping. We have changed Virginia Century Bonds, $28,000 from
Coupon to Registered. This cost us $3.00, the charge made by
Auditor of Virginia for the change. Please remit. We are in receipt of Virginia Century Bonds $20,800.,
advised as purchased in ours of yesterday, and have had
same registered in the name of the Rector and Board of Visitors
of the University of Virginia. We charge the respective
Sinking Funds as per statement below, and hold bonds for account
of same. You will notice this makes the Sinking Fund
Account Old Debt, show debit of $95. and to the Credit of Sinking
Fund Account New Debt $15.00 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 142 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1898 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | At a meeting of Referring to_interview with you this A. M. in
relation to caring for securities and handling the Sinking Fund
Accounts of the University. We beg to state our construction
of the agreement arrived at and if correct will be pleased to
have you confirm same I am in receipt of your letter of July 19th,
I beg to state that my understanding of our agreement concurs
with yours therein expressed. We have your favor of 22d and are in receipt
of securities listed in same, by Express. We register on our
books 153 bonds $500. each= $76,500. in name of Rector and
Board of Visitors of University of Virginia, and hold the same
for safe keeping. We have changed Virginia Century Bonds, $28,000.
from coupon to registered This cost $3.00, the charge
made by Auditor of Virginia for the change. Please remit.
We have opened an account "University of Virginia Sinking
Fund, Old Debt" and hold following securities for collection
of income: We are in receipt of Virginia Century Bonds
$20,800., advised as purchased in ours of yesterday, and have
had same registered in the name of the Rector and Board of
Visitors of the University of Virginia. In compliance with your request to make enquiries touching
the nature and value of the Securities in which the estate
of Arthur W. Austin, of Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts,
is now invested, I have the honor to report that I corresponded
with Mr Bentley W. Warren, one of the Trustees of that estate,
and received from him a letter under date of Sep. 24 which I
herewith file, enclosing a statement of the Securities and their
value as of Sep. 18th which I also file. I sent a list of these
securities to Messrs W. H. Goadby & Co. Bankers, of New York,
and asked them to ascertain their values, and received from
them a letter under date of October 10th giving me the market
values of all, save the stocks of three National Banks, the
Boston and Maine RailRoad preferred stock, the East Middlesex
Railway stock, and the Ogden & Lake Champlain R. R. bonds.
The report of Messrs Goadby & Co confirmed the estimate of Mr
Warren, adding somewhat to the value of some of the securities.
I file herewith a statement showing the value of the securities
under Mr Warren's estimate, showing a gross market value of
$262,945. In this is not included the $80,000. invested in the
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co. About this wrote Mr
Warren, asking his opinion of its value, but have no reply.
I should say from the statement furnished in Mr Warren's
letter that the real estate is worth about $50,000., and assuming
that the $80,000. in the Insurance Co. is worth its
face, the total present value of the Estate is $392,945. I am very sorry that the receipt of your letter
just after I had begun my vacation has prevented an earlier
reply to your inquiries relative to the investments in the
Arthur W. Austin Estate. Replying to your favor of the 30th ult., I
would say that in my opinion the $80,000.00 investment in the
Massachusetts Hospital Life Ins. Co. is undoubtedly good, and
that the University will receive the same when the same becomes
payable by its terms. We give below quotations on the securities
which we were unable to furnish in our last letter, viz= | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 149 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 1901 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes | | | | Description: | At a regular meeting of the Rector and Board of Visitors
of the University of Virginia, held on the 10th day of June,
1901, at 10 A. M. Resolved that the salary of the Commissioner of Accounts
be increased to $150.00 annually. In response to your request for a statement
of my views regarding the essentials of agricultural education,
I would respectfully submit the following June 11,- 1901, the Board met pursuant to adjournment of
yesterday. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 156 | Author: | Flint
Timothy
1780-1840 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Francis Berrian, or, The Mexican patriot | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | In the autumn of this year I set out from Massachusetts
for the remote regions of the southwest on the
Spanish frontier, where I reside. When I entered the
steam-boat from Philadelphia to Baltimore, having taken
a general survey of the motley group, which is usually
seen in such places, my eye finally rested on a young
gentleman, apparently between twenty-five and thirty,
remarkable for his beauty of face, the symmetry of his
fine form, and for that uncommon union of interest,
benevolence, modesty, and manly thought, which are
so seldom seen united in a male countenance of great
beauty. The idea of animal magnetism, I know, is
exploded. I, however, retain my secret belief in the
invisible communication between minds, of something
like animal magnetism and repulsion. I admit that this
electric attraction of kindred minds at first sight, and
antecedent to acquaintance, is inexplicable. The world
may laugh at the impression, if it pleases. I have,
through life, found myself attracted, or repelled at first
sight, and oftentimes without being able to find in the
objects of these feelings any assignable reason, either
for the one or the other. I have experienced, too,
that, on after acquaintance, I have very seldom had
occasion to find these first impressions deceptive. It is
of no use to inquire, if these likes and dislikes be the
result of blind and unreasonable prejudice. I feel that
they are like to follow me through my course. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 157 | Author: | Flint
Timothy
1780-1840 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Shoshonee Valley | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | At Length the south breeze began once more to
whisper along the valley, bringing bland airs, spring
birds, sea fowls, the deep trembling roar of unchained
mountain streams, a clear blue sky, magpies and orioles,
cutting the ethereal space, as they sped with
their peculiar business note, on the great instinct errand
of their Creator to the budding groves. The
snipe whistled. The pheasant drummed on the fallen
trunks in the deep forest. The thrasher and the
robin sang; and every thing, wild and tame, that had
life, felt the renovating power, and rejoiced in the retraced
footsteps of the great Parent of nature. The
inmates of William Weldon's dwelling once more
walked forth, in the brightness of a spring morning,
choosing their path where the returning warmth had
already dried the ground on the south slopes of the
hills. The blue and the white violet had already
raised their fair faces under the shelter of the fallen
tree, or beneath the covert of rocks. The red bud
and the cornel decked the wilderness in blossoms; and
in the meadows, from which the ice had scarcely disappeared,
the cowslips threw up their yellow cups
from the water. As they remarked upon the beauty
of the day, the cheering notes of the birds, the deep
hum of a hundred mountain water-falls, and the exhilarating
influence of the renovation of spring, William
Weldon observed in a voice, that showed awakened
remembrances—`dear friends, you have, perhaps,
none of you such associations with this season,
as now press upon my thoughts, in remembrances
partly of joy and sadness. Hear you those million
mingled sounds of the undescribed dwellers in the
spring-formed waters? How keenly they call up the
fresh recollections of the spring of my youth, and my
own country! The winter there, too, is long and severe.
What a train of remembrances press upon me!
I have walked abroad in the first days of spring.—
When yet a child, I was sent to gather the earliest
cowslips. I remember my thoughts, when I first dipped
my feet in the water, and heard these numberless
peeps, croaks, and cries; and thought of the countless
millions of living things in the water, which seemed
to have been germinated by spring; and which appeared
to be emulating each other in the chatter of
their ceaseless song. How ye return upon my
thoughts, ye bright morning visions! What a fairy
creation was life, in such a spring prospect! How
changed is the picture, and the hue of the dark brown
years, as my eye now traces them in retrospect.—
These mingled sounds, this beautiful morning, these
starting cowslips, the whole present scene brings back
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the entire past. Ah! there must be happier worlds
beyond the grave, where it is always spring, or the
thoughts, that now spring in my bosom, had not been
planted there.' Minister of Jesus—A wretch in agony implores you
by Him, who suffered for mankind, to have mercy
upon him. He extenuates nothing. The vilest outrage
and abandonment were his purpose. He confesses,
that he deserves the worst. His only plea is,
that he was ruined by the doting indulgence of his
parents. Luxury and pleasure have enervated him,
and he has not the courage to bear pain. Death is
horror to him, and Oh, God! Oh, God!—the terrible
death of a slow fire. Christ pitied his tormentors.
Oh! let Jessy pity me. The agony is greater, than
human nature can bear. Oh! Elder Wood, come,
and pray with, and for `They have unbound my hands, and furnished me
with the means of writing this. They are dancing
round the pile, on which I am to suffer by fire. My
oath, that I would possess thee, at the expense of
death and hell, rings in my ears, as a knell, that would
awaken the dead. Oh God! have mercy. Every
thing whirls before my eyes, and I can only pray, that
you may forget, if you cannot forgive | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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