51From W. Dandridge to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your’s of the 10 h enclosing two checks on the Farmers Bk, and in compliance with your desire have transmitted M r . Nekervis’ check for $362.77 to Boston, & my own to New York for 658.32. It is with regret I learn the health of the Doctr. & M rs B. has not improved as was expected and desired here. The news you ask for is for his use, and I have endeavoured to recollect if any...
52From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 11 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recollect that when at Lynchburg I proposed to mr Gorman to come and engage in our service at the University, I observed to him that there being no buildings as yet or accomodations for workmen, he could have the use of one of the dormitories for awhile. I do not remember that I specified any particular term, and suppose I did not. an indefinite understanding of that kind I should think...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Be pleased to place in the hands of Col o Bernard Peyton the sum of four thousand dollars to be invested by him in a bill of exchange to be remitted to mr Appleton of Leghorn on account for the Capitals & bases of the columns of the Rotunda. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
54From Daniel A. Piper to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 9 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
articles of agreement between Daniel Piper and Frances his wife of the one part & Arthur S. Brockenbrough proctor of the university of virginia; witnesseth, that the said Daniel & francis his wife hath this day sold to the s d proctor of the university of virginia & his sucessor in office a certain piece of land lying on the three notched road opposite the s d university in the County of...
55From James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 24 November 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 19th. inst: For an answer, I refer to the communication you will receive from Genl. Cocke, which will make known our views on the subject of it. With friendly respects RC ( ViU : Special Collections, Madison Papers); draft ( DLC ). RC addressed and franked to Brockenbrough at the University of Virginia; docketed by Brockenbrough. Letter not found.
56James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 13 April 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 10th. inst. As you can judge better probably than I can of the rule sugested by equity for adjusting the effect of the late suspension at the University, between the Students & the Hotel Keepers, I can only advise that you continue to exercise your own judgment, keeping in your hands as far as may be admissible, the means of accommodating a final arrangemt to the...
57From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 26 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you D r Boswell’s letter, as also that of Gowan and Marx of London to mr Gilmer with their account. mr Gilmer having transacted the business with them, the account should be examined by him and certified to be correct, and compared also with Bohn’s account. the balance in their hands will be subject to your draught. I send you as Vouchers for the bills of Excha, the 3 d of each, with...
58From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 27 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Be so good as to send me 4. of the ground plats of the University, on account of the University as they are to go to Europe with my letters written to procure professors. Can you lend me a box of tin? I lack that much to finish the part of my house I have been covering with tin. if you can I will send the little cart for it, as the bearer cannot bring it before him on his mule. P.S. I give the...
59Thomas 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...
60Thomas 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...
61Thomas 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...
62Thomas 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 ;...
63From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In the Report of the Visitors we shall state 1. the number of Students matriculated at the University, omitting however such as may have left it, & are not to return again. 2. the number of Students actually and at present engaged in each school as they were yesterday Sep. 30. the 1 st number you can be so good as to furnish, and I must ask the favor of you to get from each of the Professors...
64From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 13 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors did not form a board yesterday, three members only attending. I communicated to them your letter of that date, but no formal decision could take place on the subjects of the letter. I will state to you however the general sentiments expressed in conversation. 1. they will approve of your borrowing from the library fund the monies necessary for the Professors. 2. the Hotel E . was...
65From James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 October 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 25th. As the Report of the Visitors to the General Assembly will take its date from the last Session of the Board, the Accounts of the Proctor must of course be closed accordingly: and if ready by the 15th. of November for the use of the Rector will be in time for the Meeting of the Assembly on the first Monday in December, when the Report is to be made to it. I...
66From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return the deeds and plats of the University lands recieved from you at different times, and also an inclusive plat of the whole 7. parcels bought at different times laid down as exactly as the lines of the several separate ones would admit. I mentioned to you not long since an error which had crept into our practice which it is necessary to correct. it arose thus. the law establishing...
67From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 7 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In consideration of the delay which attended the opening of the University beyond they day on which it had been announced, the uncertainty which this might occasion in the minds of many at what time it might be opened, and the temporary engagements which, in consequence thereof, they might entire into elsewhere, Notice is given that, for the present year , Students will be recieved at the...
68From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will thank mr Brockenbrough for half a dozen copies of the printed enactments of the Visitors. while compiling them, he recieved from the professors of several seminaries their rules of government and promised in return to send copies of ours when printed. he salutes mr Brockenbrough with friendship and respect. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
69From 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...
70From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 8 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very much pestered with letters from persons enquiring what is the course of education in the University, what the expences & other particulars in long detail, and I expect you are also. I have therefore prepared the inclosed handbill, of which we must have 200. copies printed, which we may inclose by way of answer to such letters. be so good therefore as to get mr M c Kenny to print them...
71From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearers mr Ralston of Philadelphia, and Cap t Chapman, travellers of great respectability, who will call to see the University, are recommended to the attentions of mr Brockenbrough by ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
72From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 16 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
annexed I give you a copy of a letter I have rec d from mr Oldam s pecifying the charges he means to alledge against you. I can do no more at present than to furnish the copy . on my return from Bedford measures shall be taken for recieving the evidence which shall be adduced on both sides. it can only be however such as will voluntarily offer, at your respective requests; as the visitors...
73From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 9 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted, in my letter of this morning, to desire you to have remitted immediately to mr Appleton the sum of 3000. D. towards payment for our capitals, pavement, and the bases which Raggi had agreed to furnish, but is not able to do it, in a letter to mr Garrett I have pointed out the course of effecting it through Col o Peyton. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
74From James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, [ca. 23 January 1827] (Madison Papers)
It has been decided by the Visitors of the Univy. that Mr. Gray & Mr Chapman whose hotels were discontinued, may, if it be their option resume the charge thereof, with a special proviso that this arrangement is subject to the further consideration of the Board at its meeting in July next; and that in the mean time, they are to be subject to the enactments relating to Hotel Keepers. RC ( ViU :...
75From James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Understanding that notice has been given to all the Hotel-Keepers except Mr. Minor that their appointments are to cease at the end of the present year, I wish the effect of it to be limited to Mr. Chapman & Mr. Richeson & Mr. Gray, it being the sense of the Executive Committee, that Mr. Spotswood and Mr. Conway should retain their Hotels; and that in case Mr. John Carter should be willing to...
76James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 November 1828 (Madison Papers)
Be so good as to send me for the Report becoming due to the Legislature the annual accounts of the Proctor. With friendly respects Draft (DLC) .
77James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 31 July 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. a letter from Dr. Patterson, saying that he accepts the professorship of Nat: Philos: on the supposition that the Pavillion occupied by Mr. Long will be assigned him. This he considers as a material point, and what he understood when at the University, was to be the arrangement, in the event of his becoming a Member of the Faculty. I shall not answer his letter [well] before...
78From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to you yesterday the ill effect of the acute angles in the passage of the Rotunda. I send you my drawing of the building in which I have drawn portions of a circle to cover those angles. You will consider whether it is best to make them of brick or studs & laths. you will see in the drawing whereabouts the centers of those portions of circle are taken, so as to make the circle a...
79From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 7 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Emmet can have both the large basement rooms & to be arranged as he pleases for his chemical purposes. in that case we will use one of the upper oval rooms for a Museum. The wells of the staircases are to be secured by a ballustrade, for which, as well as the staircases I send you a very beautiful form of a balluster. it may be weeks yet before I shall be able to visit the University, even...
80James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
This [will] be handed to you by [James] To[dd from] Philada. who intends to enter himself a Student of the University. Being young & a perfect stranger, he will need all the kindness, in getting him properly settled which I well know yr. readiness to bestow in such cases. It is particularly desirable that he shd have in his dormitory an advantageous associate. He proposes to attend the Schools...
81From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests mr Brockenb rough to have the annexed paragraph inserted in the Central gazette and the Enquirer. ViU .
82John 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...
83From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 10 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Brockenbrough to send him four copies of the Rockfish report and 1. plan of the University on his own account and another plan for the University, into which he will insert the references and have them engraved into a new supply of plans. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
84From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 5 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Instructions to mr Brockenbrough. 1. Engage mr Broke to come immediately & put another cover of tin on the Dome-room of the Rotunda, without disturbing the old one. 2. the inside plaistering will then be to be coloured uniform with Whiting. 3. the finishing the Dome room to be pushed by every possible exertion, as also the Anatomical building, by employing all the hands which can be got. 4....
85James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 March 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 12th. but none yet from Mr. Randolph Being not a judge of stonework or the proper charge for it, I shall the more readily acquiesce in the judgt. of my better informed Colleagues, or in that of either if both should not in time be heard from. With friendly respects Draft (DLC) .
86From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Raggi called on me yesterday while at dinner with company whom I could not leave to open the budget of Appleton’s letters. he promised to come again tomorrow. Appleton informed me expressly that Raggi had not repaid our 50.D. there, and of course that we must look to them here. he claims them on the ground that the price at which he contracted for the bases was too small. but that is nothing...
87From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 23 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Brockenbrough to inform him of the date of the remittance of 3000. D. to mr Appleton this last spring. every thing from him may be daily expected. all except the capitels were on board ship at the date of his letter Apr. 13. every thing should therefore be got in readiness to run up the columns immediately. send me also Raggi’s contract for the bases. ViU :...
88From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 7 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have extracted from the late proceedings of the board of Visitors such articles as require to be immediately known and acted on. I must pray you in the first place to have a fair copy made out and delivered to Doct r Dunglison chairman of the faculty for communication by them to their classes, and that, to all others whom it may concern, you make known yourself such articles as concern them....
89From James Madison to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 23 August 1827 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 21st. and return the paper enclosed in it. As the packages are for the University, your proctorship will I presume, authorize your agency in the case. I have recd. no Invoice yet of the Articles imported. Should it come to my hands, it shall be immediately sent to you; and if arriving at the University under address to the Rector, I request you to break the seal...
90From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You have truly judged that your letter of the 12 th was not correctly understood, as you intended it, by the attending Visitors. we are desirous to relieve the Professors, strangers as they mostly are, from the disagreeable office of collecting their tuition fees, and that this should be done for them without any diminution of emolument; and the Proctor being the reciever of monies in all...
91From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 4 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My last ride to the University and return without getting off of my horse, with the heat of the day so overcome me with fatigue that I could scarcely reach home, and still leaves me so sore and languid that I have not been on my horse since, nor shall I be able yet for some days. if therefore any consultation is necessary with me I must ask the favor of yourself and mr Bergamin to take a ride...
92From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 13 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We must now procure a bill of exchange w hich will nett 6000. D. in London, and it should be of the first degree of solidity. it is to be made payable to ‘His Excellency Rufus King Ambassador of the United States of America in London.’ will you be so good as to get Col o Peyton to procure such a bill and send it to you by duplicates, as I must inclose them in my letters to mr King P.S. charge...
93From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 5 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I think that the form of Articles of agreement will be much better than that of Bonds for the leases of the hotels. they admit much more conveniently the insertion of all the variety of covenants which may be thought necessary from time to time as circumstances may suggest. I have therefore prepared and now inclose a form containing all the articles which at present occur to me as necessary,...
94John 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...
95Enclosure: 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
96Thomas 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...
97From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I think we should hire as many hands for the next as we did for the current year. there is a great deal of work to be done yet on the grounds. frdly salutns ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
98From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 19 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to set down a Dormitory engagement for the next season for Paul Clay son of Editha Clay of Bedford, and another for mr Bolivar nephew of Gen l Bolivar, Christ n name not known to me I observe by an error of the press in the University advertising the rent is set down at 28.D. instead of 23.D. pray have it corrected before the next paper comes out, and if it is so in the...
99From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 9 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
University of Virginia Some Professors of the University, and of important branches of science, being not yet arrived, altho’ they have been, for some time, hourly expected, the public are notified that as soon, as they arrive, an early day will be fixed on for opening the Institution, and notice thereof published with such details of information as may be necessary to be known to parents and...
100From John M. Perry to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Received of A. S Brockenbrough Proctor of the University of V a a Draft on the Bursar for Two thousand four hundred & eleven dollars 26 cents it being the balance of three thousand dollars for the first payment for a tract of Land lately purchased of him for the University of V a ViU .