Bernard peyton informed University of Virginia proctor Arthur S. Brockenbrough from Richmond on 7 July 1823 that he had that day remitted a draft for $649.08 to Thompson, “agreeable to your request,” and also paid $140 for the freight of the marble from New York. “Several of these capitals,” he explained, however, “are so enormously heavy that I scarcely know what to do with them, they are too heavy to be transported by Drays, from Rocketts to the Basin, & the Locks are not in order to admit the passage of Boats from the Basin to Tide water, & again, I fear they are too heavy for Boats, particularly those of the North River, & when the water is low—I will endeavour tomorrow, to get them up to the Basin, & will embrace the first opportunity, by Boats, of forwarding them, if I can meet with any willing to take them, there are none here just now from Milton” (RC in ViU: PP).