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A paper was put into my hands a few days since desiring me to make two distinct proposals relative to the proctorship to the University — 1 st What salary I should require to superintend the buildings at the University with the advantage (exclusively) of boarding the students so soon as a Hotel could be built for that purpose, the fare at which to be prescribed by the visitors , the Proctor to...
This letter will be delivered to you by M r Arthur Brockenbrough , who I anxiously hope you will be able to employ on some terms or other, I wish it most on your account, as I am sure he wou’d save you much trouble & vexation. I enclose two notes which you will be so good as to endorse & return to me by the mail. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Mar. 1819 and so recorded in SJL . RC (...
I take the liberty to introduce to you the bearer, M r Arthur S: Brockenbrough . He goes up to see whether his services will be needed by the trustees of the university , and whether it would be worth his while to leave his occupations here. He is a man of great respectability. He was regularly bred a house-joiner, and has, I beleive, a good taste in architecture, of which the new banks in...
I expected to have had the pleasure of delivering the enclosed letters in person, but unexpected business has prevented it, if there is any prospect of my being usefuly usefully & profitably employed at the University you will please inform me , — If materials are easily come at I would probably become a large undertaker, the Salary of the Proctor alone I fear would not be a sufficient...
Will you do me the favor if not attended with too much inconvenience to send me down this evening or in the morning early the dimentions of the East range of Pavilions I wish to lay them off before I return to Rich d , or must I be governed by the size of Pavilion N o 1 which you handed me? I think we had better employ stone cutters by the piece & not by the day, by advertising the quantity of...
I must again trouble you on the subject of the University — In making the contracts for the brick work, I had placed the undertakers upon the same footing, but M r Perry objects to it stating that the payment is not agreeable to the his propositions which runs thus “and the brick work for the said buildings the same that Gen l Cocke paid Whitelaw
I have rec d your letter of the 27 th and shall attend to the contents— M r Ware writes me from Philadelphia that the vessel he intends coming round in will sail on the 26 th I look for him daily and shall accompany him and his brickmakers &c up, or be there about the same time, he states, Stone cutters can be had for $1.50 ⅌ day by paying their expences from Philadelphia to the University , I...
Your two letters p r the last mail is this moment rec d (5 OClock P.M) the one enclosing a Df t on the President of the literary fund for eight hundred and forty dollars shall be attended as soon as possible, I should have been with you ’ere this but for the hope and expectation of the arrival of M r Ware and his hands, at any rate I shall be with you by the 8 th RC
Your favor is handed by your servant, the remitance of 45 Dollars to M r Perkins of Baltimore shall be attended to— I am sorry to hear of the cause of your detention, but am much pleased at your being still at Monticello — M r Michael has not shown much disposition towards making an experiment in this stone not having tuched it , in making arrangements for their board &c,
Your two favors of the 28 h and 29 h have both followd me to Richmond where I am endeavouring to get my family and effects up to the University as soon as possible— nothing but the rivers being almost dry and the great scarcity of Waggons has prevented my being fixed up there in some way or other, (for M r Perry has not yet given up the house)— I shall this evening write up to
I arrived here on the 25 h with my family and as M r Perry will not give up the house yet I am under the necessity of boarding them at M r Laport s untill I can get possession, it is attended with considr considerable inconvenience and expence— I this evening received your letter of the 17 th with the enclosures—
Memorandum of the expence of one Range of dormitories done with wood—99. feet long— 4972 feet heart pine Scantling @ 5$ = $248 =60 23–m. Shingles 22. In long @ 4$ = 72 timber for Do—@ $1. 25 100 pr. M. 28  75
I have this moment rec d your two favors of the 29 t & 1 st as I was disappointed in geting a pump borer , I set our overseer & hands at and have actually gotten some hundred feet bored . but a new difficulty has arisen the spring that was said to be so good has almost entirely dried up, we must therefore get water before we employ M r
STATEMENT of sums received and paid by the Treasurer of the University of Virginia from 29 th March to 30 th September, 1819 . To  this sum in hand 29th March , per
A STATEMENT of the debts contracted by the University of Virginia , so far as they have been ascertained, and payable before the first of April next , and the funds requisite to meet them. 1819. Oct. 1,   This amount overdrawn per the foregoing statement .     2,888  
In obedience to the order of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia , requiring of the Proctor “an estimate of the whole cost of completing ten pavilions, with their appendages, the number deemed necessary for the proper accommodation of the whole number of Professors contemplated by the Legislature , five hotels, and dormitories in number depending on the number of Students who...
M r Nelson has come over to do the work of Pavilion N o 5 – Before I knew of it was your and General Cocke s intention that M r Nelson should
This Indenture made on the twenty fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty between John M Perry and Frances his wife of the county of Albemarle on the one part, and Arthur S Brockenbrough Proctor of the University of Virginia acting in trust for the said University , on the other part Witnesseth, that the said John & Frances in consideration of the sum of seven thousand two...
I have procured you a pint of Oil of our painters, if you have any of the other plans of the Hotels drawn you will oblige by sending them, as it is important the timber should be cut for them as soon as possible, Hotel A on account of the flat roof being so large, will be difficult for that reason I believe I shall give it to Oldham the others being smaller & consequently less difficult in the...
I am sorry I was out of place yesterday when you were here, as I wished to see and take your, wishes & opinion on several subjects, Viz. 1 st On the propriety of substituting tin gutters for Wood over the Dormitories & Flat roofed Pavilions—it takes 26 Feet of gutter to go over the dormitory & that at about 25 cents p r foor foot for Materials & workmanship will cost $6.50 for each gutter—...
You are under a mistake as to any remittance being made to M r Vaughan in September last for the two M r Raggis , our funds were at so low a state at that time the remittance of 300 D. could not be made, no remittance was made untill Feb: & that for $400—by yourself. I have never had any correspondence with M r Vaughan on the subject, the $400 in Feb: as I understand was to bring in the wives...
I must ask the favor of you to permit us to advance the Eastern range of Hotels & Dormitories about 17 feet—in order to save much labor in diging & removing earth, we shall still have the same front, & the earth from the back of the dormitories & Hotels will be sufficient to widen the street to its proper width & the assent to the back of the pavilions will also be a little more moderate, the...
A Statement of the application of the Funds of the University of Virginia , showing how much has been paid to each undertaker of work and for what purposes, and to other individuals on acc t of the buildings and other expences, from the 1 st day of o October 1819 to the 30 th day of September 1820 —   $ Ct
I must beg leave to suggest some few alterations in the arcade in front of Hotel A without altering the height of the building, as the Span of the arch is 6 feet and the arches in front of the adjoining dormitories are only 5. F 4 I it requires 4 inches more height for the arcade in front of the Hotel than those in front of the dormitor i es, I think it will look better to let the entablature...
Enclosed you will find my duplicate report in the first report I had made an error in the addition, it should have been $ 59.158.81. instead of $ 49.158.81 in consiquence of that error I have varied the form of report, but making the balance required to complete the buildings nearly the same, I hope it will make no difference in the report made by the visitors you will find I have layed on 25...
Captain Perry wishes to raise about $2000.00 to meet his engagements with a M r Lewis a gentleman of Kentuckey who is now in the neighbourhood waiting on him— the Bursar being without funds he has no chance of obtaining that sum unless you will be so obliging as to give the Bursar a draft on the President & Dire c tors of the Literary fund for the am t wanted, I have no wish to draw the...
In reply to your note of yesterday enquiring the cost of a Tuscan base & cap,—the Doric base & capitol, & the Ionic & Corinthian bases, and also an exact estimate of the cost of the Library as near as I can come—I send you the within calculations which are accurate as I can make them— $ . cts Cost of Tuscan base— for Quarrying 1 .60   〃  Waggonage    .42   〃  cuting 6
A. S. Brockenbrough presents his respects to M r Jefferson & begs leave to introduce to his acquaintance M r Whiston of Fredericksburg he has been up viewing the University and has a particular wish of seeing your establishment , as it will probably be the only opportunity he will ever have of seeing it, it being his intention to leave Virginia for the North in a short time RC (
I am informed you wish a tuscan Cornice put up within the arcade at Hotel B —with a view to œconomise, I directed the interior of the Hotels to be finished without cornices, and intended to bring down the ceiling of the arcade of Hotel B & finish it without a cornice, but if you prefer the cornice I will direct it to be done you will please let me know soon in what way it shall be...
M r Antrim informs me his situation is such that he will not be able to carry on the plastering here unless he can get some money—from the nature of our contract I can’t ascertain precisely the amount due him, but suppose a thousand or twelve hundred dollars will fall short of the actual sum due, and which may be paid him with perfect safety—from the numerous claims against the institution ,...