Jefferson's University ... the early life

JUEL RESOURCES

This digital humanities project seeks to create a thickly descriptive and deeply researched accounting of life, learning, and labor at the University of Virginia in its first half century. We continue to find, transcribe, and digitize thousands of documents (official university records, letters, diaries, publications, addresses, county court records, and so on).

All the primary source records in JUEL are available as Full-Text Transcripts. In some cases, images of the original primary records, what we term Digitized Manuscripts, are also available. Additionally, the List of African-American Individuals, a section of biographical entries, also includes partial transcripts of primary records.

For a range of sources and reading related to JUEL topics, please visit Additional Links and Further Reading.

Full-text transcripts of the primary record collections included in the JUEL Database can be browsed below. Most of these records are organized in chronological order by University Session.

1. Chairman's Journals, 1827-1867 (13 volumes)

2. Faculty Minutes, 1825-1856 (7 volumes covering 32 annual sessions)

3. Board of Visitors Minutes, 1817-2007

4. University Catalogues, 1825-1868 (64 volumes)

5. University Enactments, 1825-1847 (5 volumes)

6. Faculty, Staff, and Student Correspondence

7. Diaries

8. Letters

9. Articles, Addresses, Speeches (Alumni Bulletin; Alumni News; Literary Society and Alumni Society Addresses; etc.). Click here for Alumni Bulletin articles by topic.

10. Diary of Student Charles Ellis Jr., 1835-6 (Original and Annotated Editions)

DIGITIZED MANUSCRIPTS

Below are digitized images of manuscripts that are available for some of the primary records. You can browse the full-text digital manuscripts, which are located in the: 1) Mini Showcase, 2) Mini Showcase 2, and 3) Diary Showcase Galleries.

1) MINI SHOWCASE = CLICK HERE TO ACCESS
Below is a list of all the texts/images included in the "MINI SHOWCASE" Gallery. The title of each item as they appear in the Mini Showcase is in parentheses below. To view: go to the Mini Showcase web site and you'll see each text below, plus a great deal of new documents, listed in a drop-down menu.

Autograph Album of William LeRoy Broun P22133 ("Autograph01")
Account and Autograph Books ("Autograph02")
Autograph Album of Thomas B. Lyons P41910 ("Autograph03")
Prof. Charles Bonnycastle's P43623 notes on chimneys ("Chimneys")
Report on the East Lawn Garden Area PL9138 Archaeological Excavations ("EastLawn1960")
Faculty Minutes Volume 7 ("FacMin7")
Proctor Willis H. Woodley, Sr.'s P43659 Letters, October 1836 and February 1837 ("Proctors Letters")
Letter from student John N. Tazewell P26750 to his Father, Littleton W. Tazewell, May 6, 1825 ("Tazewell")
The Chairman's Journals ("vols. 01-13")
NEW DOCUMENTS ADDED (CLICK HERE TO ACCESS)

2) MINI SHOWCASE 2 = CLICK HERE TO ACCESS
Below is a list of all the texts/images included in the "MINI SHOWCASE 2" Gallery. The title of each item as they appear in the Mini Showcase 2 is in quotation marks or parentheses below. To view: go to the Mini Showcase 2 web site (CLICK HERE to open it in a new window) and you'll see each text below listed in a menu on the left.

Student Charles Ellis's P43085 Letters ("Charles Ellis Letters")
"John Hartwell Cocke P43616 Papers"
"Letters of Recommendation for Workmen"
Jefferson Monument Magazine ("Magazines Jefferson Monument Magazine")
The Collegian ("Magazines The Collegian")
University Literary Magazine ("Magazines University Literary Magazine")
Virginia University Magazine ("Magazines Virginia University Magazine")
Miscellaneous Materials ("Misc")
"Patrons Ledgers"
"Printed Material"
"Slave Hiring Material"
"Thomas Hill Norwood (P23487) Letters"

3) DIARY SHOWCASE = CLICK HERE TO ACCESS
Below is a list of all the texts/images included in the "DIARY SHOWCASE" Gallery. The title of each item as they appear in the Diary Showcase is in parentheses below. To view: go to the Diary Showcase web site (CLICK HERE to open it in a new window) and you'll see each text below listed in a menu on the left.

Diary of Student Charles Ellis P43085, 1835-6 ("Charles Ellis")
Ronald B. Head's Annotated Diary of Charles Ellis, March 10 - June 25, 1835 ("Charles Ellis Typed")
Diary of Faculty Member Ethelbert A. Coleman (P36689), written while a student, 1831-2 ("Ethelbert Coleman")
Papers of Walter Bowie, Jr. (P27773), 1847-1852 ("Walter Bowie")

FULL-TEXT TRANSCRIPTS

1. Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty, 1827 - 1867

The Chairman's Journals are a rich source of information about faculty, student, and worker life in the years 1827 to 1867. You may access the journal in several ways. To see digitized images of the original manuscripts for the sessions listed below, please visit the MINI SHOWCASE Gallery and click on vols. 01 through 13 in the left-hand menu. For help in finding specific dates/pages in the manuscripts, please see "The Guide" to the mini showcase. Below are links to transcripts of the Chairman's Journals, organized by university session.

Sessions 1 - 3 (March 7, 1825 - July 20, 1827): No manuscript exists for 1825. The first manuscript written, for 1826-7, is listed by the University of Virginia Library as "not present."

Session 4 (9/1/1827 - 7/20/1828)

Journal written by John Tayloe Lomax (P43630), Chairman from 1827-1828, 1830
Actual entries from September 5, 1827 to July 28, 1828

Session 5 (9/10/1828 - 7/20/1829)

Journal written by Robley Dunglison (P43624), Chairman from December 1825-1826 and 1828-1830
Actual entries dated from September 7, 1828 to July 20, 1829

Session 6 (9/10/1829 - 7/20/1830)

Journal written by Robley Dunglison (P43624), Chairman from December 1825-1826, 1828-1830
Actual entries dated from September 5, 1829 to July 20, 1830

Sessions 7a, Session 7b (9/10/1830 - 7/20/1831)

Journal written by John Tayloe Lomax (P43630), Chairman from 1827-1828, 1830 (Chairman "pro tempore" June 29, 1830 until ?)
Actual entries dated from July 21, 1830 to July 13, 1831

Session 8 (9/10/1831 - 7/20/1832)

Journal written by Robert Maskell Patterson (P43634), Chairman from 1830-1832 (first stated as Chairman October 2, 1830)
Actual entries dated from July 20, 1831 to July 20, 1832

Session 9 (9/10/1832 - 7/20/1833)

Journal written by George Tucker (P43619), Chairman from March-December 1825, 1832-1833
Actual entries from July 21, 1832 to July 20, 1833

Session 10(9/10/1833 - 7/20/1834)

Journal written by Charles Bonnycastle (P43623), Chairman from 1833-5
Actual entries from August 30, 1833 to June 10, 1834

Session 11 (9/1/1834 - 7/4/1835)

Journal written by Charles Bonnycastle (P43623), Chairman from 1833-5
Actual entries from September 12, 1834 to August 24, 1835

Session 12 (9/1/1835 - 7/4/1836)

Journal written by John A. G. Davis (P33195), Chairman from 1835-1837, 1839-1840
Actual entries from September 7, 1835 to August 10, 1836

Session 13 (9/1/1836 - 7/4/1837)

Journal written by John A. G. Davis (P33195), Chairman from 1835-1837, 1839-1840
Actual entries from September 3, 1836 to February 17, 1837

Session 14 (9/1/1837 - 7/4/1838)

Journal written by Gessner Harrison (P25515), Chairman from 1837-1839, 1847-1854
Actual entries from July 5, 1837 to July 4, 1838

Session 15 (9/1/1838 - 7/4/1839)

Journal written by entries Gessner Harrison (P25515), Chairman from 1837-1839, 1847-1854
Actual entries from July 5, 1838 to July 4, 1839

Sessions 16 - 21 (9/1/1839 - 7/4/1845): journals unavailable. The journal for 1840-1 is listed by the University of Virginia Library as "not present."

Session 22 (10/1/1845 - 7/4/1846)

Journal written by Edward Henry Courtenay (P43677), Chairman from 1845-1846
Actual entries from July 5, 1845 to June 20, 1846

Sessions 23 - 27 (10/1/1846 - 6/29/1847): journals unavailable

Session 28 (10/1/1851 - 6/29/1852)

Journal written by Gessner Harrison (P25515), Chairman from 1837-1839, 1847-1854
Actual entries from September 27, 1851 to June 25, 1852

Session 29 (10/1/1852 - 6/29/1853)

Journal written by Gessner Harrison (P25515)
Actual entries from October 10, 1851 to June 25, 1852

Session 30 (10/1/1853 - 6/29/1854)

Journal written by Gessner Harrison (P25515)
Actual entries from October 7, 1853 to June 26, 1854

Session 31 (10/1/1854 - 6/29/1855)

Journal written by Gessner Harrison (P25515)
Actual entries from October 2, 1854 to June 25, 1855

Session 32 (10/1/1855 - 6/29/1856)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731), Chairman from 1854-1870
Actual entries from October 3, 1855 to June 20, 1856

Session 33 (10/1/1856 - 6/29/1857)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from October 15, 1856 to June 20, 1856

Session 34 (10/1/1857 - 6/29/1858):

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from September 28, 1857 to July 22, 1858

Session 35 (10/1/1858 - 6/29/1859)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from October 1, 1858 to June 22, 1859

Session 36 (10/1/1859 - 7/4/1860)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from September 30, 1859 to August 8, 1860

Session 37 (10/1/1860 - 7/4/1861)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from September 29, 1860 to June 29, 1861

Session 38 (10/1/1861 - 7/4/1862)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from October 7, 1861 to July 10, 1862

Session 39 (10/1/1862 - 7/4/1863)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from December 11, 1862 to June 9, 1863

Session 40 (10/1/1863 - 7/4/1864)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from October 6, 1862 to June 6, 1864

Sessions 41 to 44 (10/1/1864 - 6/29/1867): journals unavailable

Session 44 (10/1/1867 - 7/2/1868)

Journal written by Socrates Maupin (P43731)
Actual entries from August 30, 1867 to September 21, 1867

2. Minutes of the Faculty of the University of Virginia (Faculty Minutes), 1825-1856

Below are links to the full transcripts of the Faculty Minutes, organized by session/semester, from 1825 through to 1856. A digitized version of the Faculty Minutes manuscript from September 25, 1848 to November 1, 1850 may be viewed in the MINI SHOWCASE Gallery by clicking on "FacMin7" in the left-hand menu.

Session 1 (April 12, 1825 - December 10, 1825)
Session 2 (January 8, 1826 - December 22, 1826)
Session 3 (January 26, 1827 - July 20, 1827)
Session 4 (September 5, 1827 - July 28, 1828)
Session 5 (September 12, 1828 - July 18, 1829)
Session 6 (September 7, 1829 - July 16, 1830)
Session 7 (September 10, 1830 - July 18, 1831)
Session 8 (September 10, 1831 - July 19, 1832)
Session 9 (September 10, 1832 - July 19, 1833)
Session 10 (September 3, 1833 - July 21, 1834)
Session 11 (September 1, 1834 - July 3, 1835)
Session 12 (September 8, 1835 - July 2, 1836)
Session 13 (September 3, 1836 - July 3, 1837)
Session 14 (September 6, 1837 - July 6, 1838)
Session 15 (September 3, 1838 - July 5, 1839)
Session 16 (September 2, 1839 - July 4, 1840)
Session 17 (September 12, 1840 - July 5, 1841)
Session 18 (September 1, 1841 - July 5, 1842)
Session 19 (October 1, 1842 - July 6, 1843)
Session 20 (September 30, 1843 - July 5, 1844)
Session 21 (September 30, 1844 - July 5, 1845)
Session 22 (September 1, 1845 - July 2, 1846)
Session 23 (September 1, 1846 - May 21, 1847)
Session 24 (October 1, 1847 - July 3, 1848)
Session 25 (September 25, 1848 - July 2, 1849)
Session 26 (September 27, 1849 - June 28, 1850)
Session 27 (October 1, 1850 - July 2, 1851)
Session 28 (September 25, 1851 - June 30, 1852)
Session 29 (October 1, 1852 - July 2, 1853)
Session 30 (September 7, 1853 - July 18, 1854)
Session 31 (September 2, 1854 - July 2, 1855)
Session 32 (September 18, 1855 - September 29, 1856)

3. Enactments of the University of Virginia

4. Charles Ellis, Jr.: A Student's Diary, 1835-6 (Original and Annotated Editions)

Original Edition: Below are links to the transcriptions of Charles Ellis, Jr'.s (P43085) diary, written from 1835 to 1836. Click on "Diary Showcase" and "Charles Ellis" to view the digitized manuscript.