631To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th with the enclosed proceedings of the board of Visitors was duly rec d and agreeable to your instructions made out a copy for Doctor Dunglison. I shall endeavour to do my duty for the preservation of order and to enforce the exact punishment of all breaches of it, with firmness & fearless of the consiquences, the greatest difficulty heretofore with me was to know how to...
632Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 4 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
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...
633Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, [2 June 1821] (Jefferson Papers)
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 (
634To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 31 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
$5000. Sixty days after date, for value recieved, I promise to pay to the order of Thomas Jefferson Rector of the University of Virginia Five thousand dollars, without offset, negociable and payable at the Farmers bank of Virginia. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
635Enclosure: Arthur S. Brockenbrough’s Notes on Contract with William J. Coffee, [ca. 8 July 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
Extract from the agreement entered into betwe e n the Proctor of the University of V a & W. J. Coffee for the composition ornaments for the Entablatures of the drawing rooms &c at the U.V a Viz Ionic with modid modilions
636Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
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 (...
637To Thomas Jefferson from John Brockenbrough, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you M r Coffee’s communication with my thankful acknowledgments for it’s use. I learn that the undertaker of the locks of the James River Canal has succeeded in making the chambers impervious to water, by laying the masonry in a mortar of Roman-Cement, without lining the walls with plaster. He supposes that with well burnt bricks, or such as have a vitreous coat, a cistern may also be...
638To Thomas Jefferson from John Brockenbrough, 1 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter has been handed to me, as the person first named of the commissioners to conduct the Lottery lately authorized by the General Assembly. Capt Richardson, I understand was requested by M r T. J. Randolph to make application to Mess rs Yates & M c Intyre on the subject. I have only to add that my associates (Mess rs. Nicholas & Anderson) & myself will take pleasure in...
639John Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A suit is pending (in the Superior Court of Chancery ) in which the City of Richmond , the representatives of the late Col. Richard Adams , & the heirs of Col Byrd are parties, and the common-hall have appointed a Committee, of which I am chairman, to report on the expediency of a compromise that has been proposed by the other claimants. The subject in dispute is the land commonly called...
640John Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received from the auditor a warrant for fourteen thousand five hundred & fifty dollars, $14.550 & placed that sum, as directed in your letter of the 17 th inst , to the credit of the Rector & visitors of the University , in this bank . Allow me to add, that it will, on all occasions, afford me pleasure to give every facility in my power to the operations of the University , & I beg you...