Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 24 April 1822
From Arthur S. Brockenbrough
April 24h ’22
Dear Sir,
I send you the enclosed bond to get the favor of you to put your name to it as Rector of the U. Va—Mr Garrett informs me he intend to1 Richmond probably tomorrow and will take this bond down, receive the renewed certificate and make sale of it for the use of the University—I presume from what was said on the 1st of April by yourself and other visitors present on that day, it is intended that all the work including plastering, painting &c is to be finished2 by the fall, if such is your intention I shall direct it accordingly—I should like to have had your opinion yesterday on runing [. . .] [s]tone Wall on the rode side, back of the library3—the object I have in view is to run (after the stone wall is up) a temporary plank fence from the end of the yard Walls of the Pavilions4 to the stone fence and take away the present plank fence from Pavilion 1 and 2 which is a great disadvantage to the looks of the place— I am Sir
A. S. Brockenbrough
RC (CSmH: JF); mutilated at seal; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received the day it was written and so recorded (with additional notation: “Univy”) in SJL. Enclosure not found.
For the renewed certificate, see Alexander Garrett’s Account of Unappropriated Funds for the University of Virginia, 27 Nov. 1821, enclosure no. 4 in University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 30 Nov. 1821, and note.
In a letter of this date to John H. Cocke written from the University of Virginia, Brockenbrough forwarded “a plan of the two public Privies for the use of the students,” which were to be situated in valleys beyond the hotels on each side of the institution. He reported of this plan, not found, that “Mr Jefferson has seen it and thinks it will do, but said nothing as to the size” (RC in ViU: JHC).
1. Thus in manuscript.
2. Manuscript: “fineshid.”
3. Manuscript: “liberary.”
4. Manuscript: “Pavivilions.”
Index Entries
- Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; as University of Virginia proctor search
- Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; letters from search
- building materials; plank search
- building materials; stone search
- Cocke, John Hartwell (1780–1866); and University of Virginia construction search
- Garrett, Alexander; as University of Virginia bursar search
- painting; at University of Virginia search
- plastering; at University of Virginia search
- privies; at University of Virginia search
- Virginia, University of; Administration and Financial Affairs; funding for search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; and construction of University of Virginia search
- Virginia, University of; Board of Visitors; meetings of search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; hotels search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion I search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion II search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; pavilions search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; privies search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; progress of search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Rotunda (library) search
- Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; walls and fences at search