Enclosure: Contract between Arthur S. Brockenbrough and William J. Coffee, 18 March 1822

Enclosure

Contract between Arthur S. Brockenbrough and William J. Coffee

					$
Pav: 1—	12 Female heads size 10½ in: in Led $2. each				24.
	83.8 Frize 6 in: wide Boy & Swag 36 cents pr foot				30.	24
					54.	24

Pav: 2—	Led frize a $2 pr ft 34—4 in				68.	67
	51 Ox heads for Doric Entablature1 (drawing room)	26 cents each			13.	26
	48 Flowers for same	24 cts do			11.	52
					93.	45

Pav: 3	Ionic frize 36 cents pr ft 77 ft		27.72
	175 Flowers2 in pannels3 6c each		10.50
	77 ft Egg & anchor 12c pr ft		9.28	4
					47.	50
Pav 4	107 Roses betwen Modillions each 6c				6.	42

Pav 5—	75 Oxheads each 26c5	19.50
	75 Flowers 25c	9.25	6
	75—do Lozenges 18c	13.50
					37.	257
Pav No 6	Female heads 46 cts each 48 heads				38.	088

Pav: No 7—	74 ft Same ornaments9 as pav: 1 same price				26.	64

Pav No 8	Cor: Frize 30 cts pr ft 79.3		24.00	10
	115 flowers in Pannels 9 cts each		10.35		34.	35

Pav 9	same as No 6 —62				28.	5211

Pav 10	Flowers in frize 26 cts 48		12.48
	same in plancier 48		12.48		24.	96

W. J. Coffee

A. S Brockenbrough

March 18h 1822

We12 the subscribers do hereby agree to the following articles, Viz. Mr Coffee is to furnish suitable ornaments for the entablatures of the drawing rooms in each Pavilion, the ornaments to be made of composition, and the necessary ornaments for the fronts of the Porticos of Pavilions No 1 and 2 to be made of lead at the prices affixed to each article agreeable to the memorandum given in by him, the aforesaid ornaments to be delivered in Richmond in good order and to be consigned to A. S. Brockenbrough to the care of Brockenbrough & Harvie of Richmond:—the aforesaid ornaments to be delivered in Richmond by the first day of October next

A. S. Brockenbrough agrees to pay to said Coffee on or before the first of April 1823 the full cost of the said ornaments at the aforesaid stipulated prices & for the necessary quantity—witness our hands this 18th day of march 1822

Arthur S Brockenbrough Proctor of the University of Va

W. J. Coffee13

Pavilion No 1.
12 Human Masks a 2$			24.00
85 ft frize 36 cents pr foot			30.60
			54.60
			7.43	14	62.	03
Pav: No 2
34 feet Lead freize at 2$ pr ft		68.00
52 Ox Sculs &c a 26c		13.52
48 Flowers a 24c		11.52	93.04
			7.41		100.	45

Pav 3—	78 ft of Ionic freize a 36c	28.08
	175 flowers a 6c	10.50
	77 ft Egg & anchor a 12c	9.24	47.82
			7.41		55.	23

Pav 4—	107 Roses a 6c		6.42
			7.41		13.	83

Pav 5—	78 Ox sculls & Patterers a 36c	28.08
	78 Spandal flowers a 18c	14.04	42.12
			7.41		49.	53
Pav. 6—	50 Human Masks a 46		23.00
			7.41		30.	41
Pav 7—	75 ft Frieze a 36 cents		27.00
			7.41		34.	41
Pav 8—	81 ft freize a 30c	24.30
	115 flowers a 9c	10.35	34.65
			7.41		42.	06
Pav: 9—	62 Doric Masks a 46c		28.52
			7.41		35.	93
Pav: 10—	97 Flowers a 26c		25.22
			7.41		32.	63
			$382.39		456	51

			Short Dbt
Pavilion15 No	1		23.	03✓
Pav	2		61.	45✓
〃	3		16.	23✓	over dbt
〃	4				25.17✓
〃	5		10.	53✓
〃	6				8.59✓
〃	7				4.59✓
〃	8		3.	06✓
〃	9				3.0616✓
〃	10				6.52✓
			114.	30
		off	66.	37
			47.	93

RC (ViU: PP); written on two sheets pasted together with sealing wax as indicated below; in Brockenbrough’s hand, signed by Brockenbrough and Coffee; endorsed by Brockenbrough on verso of upper sheet: “Contract Proctor with Coffee.” Probably also enclosed in TJ to Brockenbrough, 10 Apr. 1823.

boy: “putto.” egg & anchor are “varieties of the echinus, produced by the alternation of vertical with egg-shaped ornaments” (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ). cor: “Corinthian.” Planceer (plancier): “the underside of the corona of a cornice; any soffit of a cornice” (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ).

Coffee’s original memorandum of prices has not been found.

Pateras (patterers) are ornaments or decorations “resembling a shallow round dish” (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ). spandal: “spandrel.”

1. Manuscript: “Entablatur.”

2. Manuscript: “Flowes.”

3. Manuscript: “pannls.”

4. The correct amount is $9.24.

5. Manuscript: “36c,” with product to the right of this number reworked from “27.00.”

6. The correct amount is $18.75.

7. Reworked from “36.25,” although the correct sum is $42.25 as rendered or, accounting for correction in previous note, $51.75.

8. The correct amount is $22.08.

9. Manuscript: “ornamets.”

10. The correct amount is $23.79.

11. Manuscript: “28.25.”

12. Recto of subjoined sheet begins with this word.

13. Recto of subjoined sheet ends here, and verso of upper sheet begins.

14. This number and the subsequent nine “7.41” entries below were interlined by Brockenbrough at a separate sitting, as was the entire far right column. TJ discussed the discrepancy in the totals of the two columns in his letter to Coffee of 10 Apr. 1823.

15. Verso of subjoined sheet begins with this table.

16. Reworked from “4.07.”

Index Entries

architecture; architectural ornaments search
Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; as University of Virginia proctor search
Brockenbrough, Arthur Spicer; contract of, with W. J. Coffee search
Brockenbrough & Harvie (Richmond firm); and University of Virginia search
building materials; composition search
building materials; lead search
Coffee, William John; contract for work on University of Virginia search
Coffee, William John; fashions ornaments for University of Virginia search
lead; architectural ornaments of search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; ornamental work 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; Pavilion III search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion IV search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion IX search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion V search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion VI search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion VII search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion VIII search
Virginia, University of; Construction and Grounds; Pavilion X search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Enclosure: Contract between Arthur S. Brockenbrough and William J. Coffee, 18 March 1822
Author: Brockenbrough, Arthur S.
Recipient: Coffee, William John
Date: March 1822 – April 1823

Reference

Cite as: “Enclosure: Contract between Arthur S. Brockenbrough and William J. Coffee, 18 March 1822,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-19-02-0392-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 19, 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 514–517.]