1Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter from Philadelphia which very much affects our arrangements for this year. mr Ware on whom we relied to come himself and brick bring brickmakers & layers to do a whole range of buildings was it seems under embarrassing circumstances, & on it’s being known that he was coming here, he was arrested by his creditors & was in jail at the date of the letter. what are we to...
2Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in informing you that mr Ware is arrived. he tells me he was arrested by creditors & detained some time. he says he has secured as many bricklayers, brickmakers & house joiners as we can find work for, that they are glad to come at our prices, and will be ready to come off at once on his writing back what work we can give them. I des I told him what I had written to you ;...
3Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 5 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is but lately concluded to commence the Eastern range of pavilions, I h & Dormitories I have not prepared the plans, nor shall I be at leisure to turn to that business till the week after the ensuing one. but those pavilions will vary so little from the dimensions last given, & those of N o I. II. III. of the Western range that if the foundations are dug to that, the trimming them to...
4Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, [after 27 June 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Palladio ’s measures of the Fortuna virilis are not in Modules & minutes but in quarter inches of the Vicentine foot , this the diameter of the column being 2 f–8 ½ I or 130 quarter inches which he calls minutes. then 130 ¼ I : 60′ :: 95 ¼ I his projection to 43′ 17 20
5Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7 th was recieved in due time. mr Perry is entitled to what we agreed to, not to what he proposed . we agreed that Gen l Cocke ’s bargain with Whately should be ours. that was that he was to find all and do all for 11 ¼
6Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to drop me a line the moment the Philadelphia workmen arrive, informing me when they may be expected here, as it might induce me to put off my departure until I see them fixed here. Perry has promised to have dormitories for the master workmen and Cellars ready for the others which was my promise. I salute you with friendship & respect. RC ( ViU: TJP-PP ); dateline at...
7Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Our two Italian Sculptors arrived at Charlottesville the evening before last and we have to make immediate provision to reimburse to mr Hollins of Baltimore the sums he has been called on for on their arrival. mr Appleton found it necessary to advance to each of them 200.D. apiece to prepare for their voyage and to leave some provision for their families, at a loss of exchange too of 10. p....
8Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been detained by the indisposition of one of my grandaughters who was to accompany me. she is better but will not be strong enough to proceed till tomorrow, if then. in the mean time I have recieved a letter from mr Appleton informing me that after making his draughts on mr Hollins and sealing his letters, the vessel being delayed a little longer, the he was obliged to advance a further...
9Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter from mr Hollins of Baltimore of the following import ‘The Italians left a case on board the brig Strong , which I understood them to contain a piece of unwrought marble; but the custom house officers on examination find it to contain polished work of some kind; & not having been put in the Captain’s manifest, of course not reported to the Custom house store, I...
10Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday by the Lynchbg mail which was to leave that place the same evening, and I now inclose you a letter from a mr Stokes which ought to have been addressed to you. I have made full enquiry whether proper blocks of marble could be got here should we want them. I find that they cannot, & that the quality is such as would not bear the chissel for delicate work, and is of so...
11Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson incloses to mr Brockenbrough two letters merely because they relate to his department. Andrei who writes one, is a great artist & excellent man, and his recommendation would be weighty if we wanted the workmen he recommends at all. Gorman will be with you within not many days. he has worked here under my eye about 3 weeks, dressing and laying some hearthstones and marble slabs. I...
12Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter recommending a mr James Wade of Lynchburg for the conducting water to the University . I have other satisfactory information, of his skill, industry and fidelity to his engagements. he will undertake to work at the Philadelphia prices, whatever they are, altho’ he does not know what they are. he will come the moment you call for him but says the timber had better not be...
13Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 September [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 28 th came to hand yesterday. the engagements for work, as well as I can state them from imperfect memorandums which I have with me aided by recollection, have been as follows. in the Western range the Pavilion N o 1. the brick work was engaged to Carter & Philips , the wooden work to Oldham ; N o 2. is done with. N o 3. brick work and wooden work engaged to
14John Hollins to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 3 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your respects of the 30 th past , I have been at the Custom house where no difficulty was made, and the duties being paid, the articles remain at your command— annexed is an account of what I have paid by order of my worthy friend M r Jefferson for the Italians—leaving a balance of ten dollars due to me.— The vouchers accompany this letter RC ( ViU: PP ); addressed: “M r...
15Enclosure: Account of John Hollins with University of Virginia, [ca. 3 September 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
D r 26 June 1819 To cash—see above receipt 90 30 〃 〃 To D o —passage money D o
16John Bevan to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Having understood that a Painter could be employ’d on the buildings now erecting in Charlottsville intended for a Seminary & c I have asumed the liberty of soliciting work in the above branch, and to request y r oppinion on the propriety of the design of establishing myself as a Painter in said Town. Your well known liberality, and knowledge of the world, and its minutest concerns in business,...
17John H. Cocke to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter to M r Jefferson of the 12 —upon the subject of M r Neilsons undertaking Pavilion N o 5 was forwarded to me in consequence of the indisposition of M r J. endorsed “ T Jefferson being unable to write, begs the favor of Gen l
18Enclosure: John Hollins to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Raggi delivered me this forenoon your favor of the 7 th Ins t , & have agreeably to your request, put him in the way to get his property from the Custom house .— The remittance of ten dollars inclosed in your said letter is in full as ⅌ my statement of the 3 d Septem last I have lost no time in my enquiries respect g the letter addressed to M r Tho
19John H. Cocke and Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 7 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
We the subscribers, acting as a committee of superintendance under the authority of the Visitors of the University of Virginia have consider’d the proposals of Michael and Gio Giacomo Raggi Sculptors, that we shou’d relinquish their obligation to continue longer in the service of the University & permit them to return to Italy under certain other stipulations: and we do not think we should be...
20Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I think the raising the windows above the floor will be proper for the reason you mention . with respect to the arches & entablature of Hotel A . there would be 3. modes of doing it. 1. to make the arches of the width of those of the dormitories. but this would make the piers too heavy. 2. to raise the cornice entablature as you propose, th e objection to which is the breaking the line of the...
21Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer mr Sully , a celebrated Portrait painter of Philadelphia calls to see the University , and as he is a judge, and will be questioned about it on his return I will request you to shew it to him advantageously. I am endeavoring to make as exact an estimate as possible of our past and future expences, beginning with April last when our previous funds had been used, we were in debt...
22Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
It is near 2. months since I made a remittance for some Roman cement to mr Coffee , supposing him to be in N.Y. but recieving no answer I presume he has left it on a very long journey he intended to take. we cannot therefore look to that place. I recieved last night the inclosed letter from mr Andrew Smith on the subject of this cem e nt. as his is imported from England , we have as good a...
23Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I met mr Oldham yesterday on my return from the University , and he delivered his complaints for want of money. I told him he should be paid on a settlement of his accounts, and that if you could not agree together I knew that you would arbitrate. he writes me to-day that you do not think yourself at liberty to agree to any arbitrators but mr Divers & mr Minor . certainly my confidence in...
24Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 3 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of yesterday , and should really think that as we have no such profession as that of measurer in our part of the country, we are under no obligation to seek them from other and distant places. if there be a difference on the mode of measuring, that might be arbitrated as well as any thing else. Did we not on some occasion lay it down with the undertakers that mess rs...
25Receipt from Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 22 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
1821 November 22 Rece d of the Proctor of the University of Virginia his Df t on the Bursar for One hundred and fifty Dollars for a Hoisting Machine for the use of the said University MS ( ViU: TJP-PP ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by TJ; endorsed in same clerk’s hand: “Hoisting Machine to Thomas Jefferson 22
26Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 9 December [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 9. answ d that we had no authority to borrow until the annuity payable Jan. 1. is exhausted: but that that may be rec d punctually on that day FC ( CSmH: JF ); abstract in TJ’s hand beneath endorsement of RC of Brockenbrough to TJ, 9 Dec. 1821 ; partially dated. Not recorded in SJL .
27Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 8 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
On Sunday last I recieved a letter from the Governor informing me the balance of the last loan, 30,900. D was now ready for us and might be drawn for as soon as I should send a bond for it. I executed and inclosed the bond to him the same day, and I presume it went by Tuesday’s mail; I am ready therefore to authorise any draught within that amount that the bursar chuses: and my opinion would...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 11 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I transcribe for your information a resolution of the Visitors of the University entered into at their late meeting, to which they recommend your early attention. also a copy of an advertisement to be published in the Enquirer and Central gazette. accept the assurance of my friendship and respect. ViU .
29From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The error of account with Giacomo Raggi may easily be corrected if he should return to this country. but this being doubtful, it may be proper for you to give me a copy of his account as settled and signed by him which I can transmit to Appleton who knows of the payment of the 200.D. and will see that it was not credited in the account. Can you now furnish me with your last half year’s account...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
In inclose you a letter recieved yesterday from our engraver in New York. I shall write to Col o Peyton how to dispose of the prints, in the meantime I shall be glad have a remittance of the 150.D. made to mr Maverick which I promised should be done as soon as I should recieve his bill. I am waiting for your acc t Apr. to October, to send our Report to the legislature, as also the estimate of...