Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses, [ca. 28 September 1821]

Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses

[ca. 28 Sept. 1821]

Pavilion	No	3. (1818)	11,946.30
	No	7. (1817)	7,203.51

	No	2	8 347.28
		4.	9 096.32
		5.	8 768.92
		9.	7 360.63
Hotel		B.B.	4 609.58

Dormitories.	16.	on the lawn	13,898.34
	4.		2,682.16
	6.		3,804.84
	9.	on E. street.	4,596.63

MS (ViU: TJP); on a reused address cover from Arthur S. Brockenbrough to TJ, with FC of TJ’s View of the Expenses and Funds of the University of Virginia, [ca. 28 Sept. 1821], on recto and verso; in TJ’s hand; undated, with conjectural date of composition based on the date assigned to that document.

The figures given here likely came from Brockenbrough, who, as stated by TJ in his letter of 30 Sept. 1821 to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, had recently calculated the costs of the buildings then completed at the university, consisting of six pavilions, one hotel, and thirty-five dormitories. A missing letter from Brockenbrough to TJ of 28 Sept. 1821, recorded in SJL as received from the University of Virginia the day it was written, may have enclosed this information.

Hotel b.b. was later renamed Hotel C.

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses, [ca. 28 September 1821]
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 28 September 1821

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on University of Virginia Building Expenses, [ca. 28 September 1821],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0461. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 17, 1 March to 30 November 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, p. 524.]