Documentary History
of the Construction of the Buildings
at the University of Virginia, 1817-1828

Frank Edgar Grizzard, Jr.

Notes

601. Board of Visitors, Annual Report to the Literary Fund, 6 October 1823, PPAmP:UVA Minutes; see also Cabell, Early History of the University of Virginia, 477-79 (appendix M, no. 5), and Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 394.

602. See TJ's Statement of Funds for the Rotunda, 31 December 1823, in ViU:TJ.

603. Out-of-town wagons hauled only some trivial shipments to the university over the course of the winter. See Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 13 November, Loose Receipt, 11 November, Benjamin Blackford to Brockenbrough, 22 December 1823, and Robert Johnston to Brockenbrough, 16 January 1824, in ViU:PP.

604. See Brockenbrough to Jefferson, 28 November 1823, in ViU:PP.

605. See Brockenbrough's Estimate of Brickmaking Costs for the Rotunda, 1823, in ViU:PP. Brockenbrough's Estimate of Bricks Required for the Rotunda, 1823, also in ViU:PP, shows the specific sizes of various types of brickwork required for the Rotunda and the proctor's calculations of the number of bricks required for each particular job of the foundational work, the basement story, the principal story, the second story, the attic, and the terrace walls, a total of 1,087,740 bricks. TJ's undated Instructions for Bricklaying and Carpentry for the Rotunda, possibly made in October 1823, is also in ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 22.

606. Jefferson to Brockenbrough, 28 December 1823, ViU:PP.

607. Brockenbrough to TJ, 4 March 1824, ViU:PP.

608. For the delivery of lime to the university in 1824, see Henry Burkholder to Brockenbrough, 19 April, and J. W. Stout to Brockenbrough, 21 April, and Lewis Wayland, Loose Receipt, 4 August, Balance Sheet, 30 September 1824, and John Laurance, Loose Receipt, 17 March 1826, in ViU:PP; for the shipping of building materials to the university, see Thomas Brockenbrough to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough, 25 March, D. W. & C. Warwick to Brockenbrough, 25 March, 6 April, 7, 14, 21 June, Brockenbrough & Harvie, Account, 26 March, John Van Lew & Co., 26 March, Thomas Nelson to Brockenbrough, 29 March, Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 22, 29 April, 24 May, 10 June, John Brockenbrough, Jr., to Brockenbrough, 3 May, TJ to Brockenbrough, 4 May, all in ViU:PP, and Brockenbrough to TJ, 3 May 1824, in DLC:TJ. "As the trade of lime Apears at an end for the present," John Laurance wrote to Brockenbrough on 19 January 1825, "perhaps We may Again commence Upon A different Article, My Wife has from forty to fifty Wt. of butter for Sale Which She Will engage fresh And good--it All having been Made Within A Short time is Not Fancie Or ill tasted Also A quantity of Cheese that perhaps you Might fancy . . . please let Me know Whether You Want either of her Articles of trade And the price An[d] also the prospect for lime Selling this Spring" (ViU:PP). The loose receipts for 1825 in ViU:PP indicates that the delivery of lime was greatly reduced in the spring of 1825.

609. Brockenbrough to TJ, 28 March 1824, ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 29. Beneath Brockenbrough's signature Jefferson wrote "disapproved."

610. TJ to Brockenbrough, 29 March 1824, ViU:PP; see also ibid., 30.

611. Randolph to Trist, 4 April 1824, NcU:Trist Papers; see also Lasala's description of Neilson's drawing in "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for the University of Virginia," #19-04. Virginia Jefferson Randolph (1801-1882) and Nicholas P. W. Trist, Jr. (1800-1874), were married at Monticello on 11 September 1824 after an engagement of several years (see Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 373, 454).

612. Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 5-7 April 1824, PPAmP:UVA Minutes. The Board of Visitors tried to keep Gilmer's mission a secret but knowledge that "a large Bill of Exchange [$6,000] had been purchased for his use with the money of the University" soon made it "quite useless to pretend to any reserve upon the subject" (John Hartwell Cocke to TJ, 27 August 1824, CSmH:TJ). At their meeting the following fall the visitors resolved for Gilmer to use $600 or $700 of the funds "for the purchase of books and Apparatus" (Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 4 October 1824, PPAmP:UVA Minutes). Francis Walker Gilmer (1790-1826), a grandson of Dr. Thomas Walker of Castle Hill, was born at Pen Park in Albemarle County, and, after graduating from William and Mary College in 1810, read law under his eminent brother-in-law, William Wirt. Generally regarded as one of Virginia's most promising antebellum intellectuals, he left behind several "bits of brilliant writing," including Sketches of American Orators (1816), Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of Virginia (1821), and Sketches, Essays and Translations (1828). Gilmer succeeded in convincing five foreign scholars to accept professorships at the university: George Long (1800-1879; ancient languages), George Blaetterman (modern languages), Thomas Hewett Key (1799-1875; mathematics), Charles Bonnycastle (1796-1840; natural philosophy), and Robley Dunglison (1798-1869; medicine and anatomy). Another foreign-born professor was recruited in New York, John Patton Emmet (1796-1842; natural history), and the remaining professorships were filled by Americans with staunch Jeffersonian republican principles: George Tucker (1775-1861; moral philosophy and ethics), and John Tayloe Lomax (1781-1862; law), after Gilmer rejected the offer. See Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 397-401, 401-10, Davis, Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 63-65, Cunningham, In Pursuit of Reason, 342-43, and O'Neal, Pictorial History of the University of Virginia, 43-46.

613. Brockenbrough's Estimate of the Cost of the Rotunda, 5 April 1824, ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 30. Thomas Draffin furnished lumber for the Rotunda between 1 May and 28 June (see Draffin's Account, 1 July 1824, and Balance Sheet of the University of Virginia, 30 September 1824, both in ViU:PP). Joseph Antrim did the plastering work for the Rotunda (indeed he plastered all the buildings), and although Charles William McGuiness in early summer enquired about painting the Rotunda, John Vowles continued to oversee all the painting and glazing at the university (see McGuiness and S. Jacobs to Brockenbrough, 1 July, Edward Lowber to Brockenbrough, 6 July, Thomas Brockenbrough to Brockenbrough, 4 November, Vowle's Account with Brockenbrough & Harvie, 15 November, and Balance Sheet of the University of Virginia, 30 September, 31 December 1824, and Lowber to Brockenbrough, 4 January 1825, all in ViU:PP).

614. Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 5-7 April 1824, PPAmP:UVA Minutes.

615. TJ to Trist, 13 April 1824, ViU:TJ. For the opening of the university in 1825, see Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 411-25.

616. See Cabell to TJ, 22 November 1823, in ViU:JCC; see also Cabell, Early History of the University of Virginia, 284.

617. Cabell to TJ, 3 December 1823, ViU:JCC; see also ibid., 285. James Pleasants, Jr. (1769-1836) of Goochland County was involved in public service for over thirty years: Virginia House of Delegates, 1797-1802; clerk of the House of Delegates, 1810-1811; United States House of Representatives, 1810-1819; United States Senate, 1819-1822; governor of Virginia, 1822-1825; and Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1829/1830. Pleasants is buried at Pleasant Green in Goochland County.

618. Cabell to TJ, 26 January 1824, printed in ibid., 287-88.

619. Cabell to TJ, 29 January 1824, ViU:JCC; see also ibid., 288-90.

620. See Cabell to TJ, 17 March 1824, ViU:JCC; see also ibid., 296-99.

621. See Cabell to TJ, 7 March, 1 April, in ViU:JCC, and Cabell to James Monroe, 2 April 1824, printed in ibid. (appendix N), 488-99; see also ibid., 294-96, 299-301.

622. See Brockenbrough to TJ, 28 March, and TJ to Brockenbrough, 29 March 1824, in ViU:PP (discussed above).

623. See Warwick to Brockenbrough, 6 April, and Brockenbrough's Estimate of the Cost of the Rotunda, 5 April 1824, in ViU:PP.

624. John Brockenbrough, Jr., to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough, 3 May 1824, ViU:PP. John Brockenbrough also informed Arthur that their brother "Austin has taken a wife of fifteen--last Thursday--Can anything be more foolish?"

625. Anthony Bargamin and his wife, Marie Thérèse Guyot, "a woman of much vivacity and charm" who outlived her husband by many years, lived at 203 East Cary Street, next door to George Bargamin (Munford, Richmond Homes and Memories, 79). The spelling of Bargamin's name, which is rendered in a variety of ways, is taken from Anthony's signature when writing to the proctor.

626. Brockenbrough to TJ, 3 May 1824, DLC:TJ.

627. TJ to Brockenbrough, 4 May 1824, ViU:PP. In 1862 Edmund Bacon claimed to have purchased Eagle, the horse that Jefferson rode as long as he was able to ride horseback: "The last thing I ever did for poor old Mr. Jefferson was to buy Eagle for him for a riding horse. The last time he ever rode on horseback, he rode Eagle; and the last letter I ever got from Mr. Jefferson, he described that ride and how Eagle fell with him in the river and lamed his wrist. I am very sorry I have lost that letter. I bought Eagle of Captain John Graves, of Louisa County. He was a bay, with white hind ankles and a white spot on his nose; full sixteen hands high and the finest sort of a riding horse" (Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, 62; see also Betts, Jefferson's Farm Book, 88, 105, 108-9). Bacon confused Jefferson's November 1822 injury to his wrist from a fall at Monticello with a subsequent mishap on horseback, which Jefferson described in his letter to Bacon of 10 August 1823, located in MHi:TJ. For a description of the fall at Monticello, when a decayed plank on the steps at one of the terraces gave way, and for mentions of Eagle during Jefferson's last years, see Randolph, Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, 382-83, 421.

628. TJ to Swift, 22 May 1824, DLC:TJ. Swift loaned TJ his copy of Delorme, and TJ apparently returned it to Swift the next spring (see TJ to Swift, 21 June 1825, in ViU:TJ). Philibert Delorme (c. 1515-1570) was a French architect who, according to Sowerby, "studied in Italy, where he was employed by Pope Paul III. On his return to France he was first employed by Cardinal Du Bellay, and later by Henri II and Charles IX. Delorme built a number of chateaux in France, including those of St. Maur and Anet, and the Tuileries were built from his designs. Delorme is considered one of the great masters of the Renaissance" (Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 4:364 [4183]). TJ's architectural detail for the wooden roofing frame is in ViU:TJ; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, plate 9, and #17-08 in Lasala, "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for the University of Virginia."

629. See Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 24 May, and 10 June, and D. W. & C. Warwick to Brockenbrough, 7, 14 June, 6, and 13 July 1824, all in ViU:PP. Warwick stopped furnishing tin to the university before the Rotunda was finished because of the university's inability or unwillingness to pay cash for the purchases. See Brockenbrough to William J. Robertson, 13 August, D. W. & C. Warwick to Brockenbrough, 14 August, 4 September, Thomas Brockenbrough to Brockenbrough, 16 September, Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 4 October, John Van Lew & Co., 5 October 1824, Warwick to Brockenbrough, 28 January, and 8 February 1825, all in ViU:PP.

630. Bargamin to Brockenbrough, 21 June 1824, ViU:PP; see also D. W. & C. Warwick to Brockenbrough, 21 June 1824, in ViU:PP.

631. See Bargamin to Brockenbrough, 4 February, John Brockenbrough to Brockenbrough, 11 March and 12 August 1825, in ViU:PP. Bargamin, who also installed the gutters at Pavilion III (ViU:PP, Ledger 2), apparently was accompanied in his work on the dome by James Clark, who had installed tin gutters at Pavilions V and IX and at all the hotels (see Balance Sheet, 28 February and 31 December 1824, Loose Receipt, 4 February 1825, and Ledger 1, in ViU:PP). The measurement of the dome from the "top of the last step to the center of the Sky light," the proctor informed Jefferson in a letter of 2 December 1824, was 27 feet, 5 inches (ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 33).

632. Brockenbrough to TJ, 3 May 1824, DLC:TJ; see also Brockenbrough's undated Memorandum of Marble Flagging for the Rotunda, in ViU:PP.

633. TJ to Appleton, 17 May, ViU:TJ; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 30-31, and O'Neal, "Michele and Giacomo Raggi at the University of Virginia, Magazine of Albemarle County History, 18:30-31. Appleton wrote to TJ on 28 July to inform him that he had ordered the marble squares and that the bases "are now Satisfactorily progressing under the Direction of my Sculptor and will be compleated in October--[Giamoco] Raggi overlooks Some part of the work; but hitherto, he Can labour but little, from the misfortune he Suffer'd in fracturing the clavicule.--The bases, and the Squares, Shall be Shipp'd by the first vessel, after their Arrival here, and I hope and beleive, you will receive them in the course of December; and as the Capitals cannot be finish'd until february, it is probable you will received them, before May" (DLC:TJ). Raggi's injury and the resulting delay in receiving the bases at the university meant that the columns could not be set until the following year (see TJ to Appleton, and Appleton to TJ, both 8 October 1824, in DLC:TJ). The marble paving squares and bases were shipped to Boston on board the ship Caroline in April 1825, and the capitals were shipped to Boston on board the brig Tamworth in June (see Appleton to TJ, 13 April, 4-12 May, 22 June, 12 July 1825, in DLC:TJ, TJ to Brockenbrough, 23, 24 July, 30 August 1825, in ViU:PP, TJ to Appleton, 10 August 1825, in ViU:TJ, Appleton's accounts for marble columns, 4 May 1825, in ViU:TJ, 22 June 1825, DLC:TJ, and 12 July 1825, in ViU:TJ; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 35, 36, 38).

634. Dinsmore & Neilson, Memorandum, 19 May 1824, ViU:PP; see also Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 24 May, 1 July 1824, and Brockenbrough & Harvie's Account No. 1, 4 December 1824, inclosed in Thomas Brockenbrough to Brockenbrough, 4 December 1824, all in ViU:PP. "Colo. Harvies Nail Factory" and "J. B. Harvie's Nail Book" are mentioned in Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 24 May, and 4 December 1824, respectively, in ViU:PP, and on 13 May 1825 Brockenbrough & Harvie informed the proctor that "Mr Harvie has declined making Nails for the present, owing to the high price of Iron" (ViU:PP).

635. Brockenbrough to Cocke, 22 May 1824, ViU:JHC.

636. Cocke to Brockenbrough, 5 June 1824, ViU:PP.

637. Perry and Brockenbrough, Agreement for Brickwork, 25 May 1824, ViU:PP. An undated memorandum made by TJ and located in DLC:TJ indicates that Perry made bricks from 15 June to 29 September 1824.

638. For a brief overview of the evolution of firefighting methods in the United States, see Hazen and Hazen, Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 121-53.

639. Brockenbrough to Jefferson, 4 June 1824, ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 31. An undated and unsigned faculty member memorandum in ViU:JHC listing the "Cares devolved upon the executive Committee" indicates that the faculty communicated its concerns about the university's water supply and lack of protection against fire to the executive committee. John Hartwell Cocke wrote on the memorandum his estimates regarding laying water pipes and the daily consumption of water for a professor's family (60 gallons per day) and noted that water for the university was gathered from the "Middle Spring," the "Spring at Maurys," and the "Old Cistern."

640. See TJ to the Board of Visitors, 15 April 1825, in ViU:JHC, Joseph Carrington Cabell to TJ, 6 May 1825, in ViU:TJ, John M. and Frances T. Perry's Land Indenture, 9 May 1825, TJ to Brockenbrough, 14 May, 27 June 1825, John Brockenbrough to Brockenbrough, 4 June 1825, and Brockenbrough to TJ, 27 June 1825, in ViU:PP. The university paid Perry for the land over a two-year period (see Loose Receipts, 10, 14 May 1825, and 4 June, 1 September, and 9 November 1827, in ViU:PP).

641. See Daniel A. Piper, Account for Laying Pipes, 8 October 1822, and Ledger 1, in ViU:PP.

642. See Brockenbrough's agreement with Daniel A. and Mary A. Frances Piper, 22 September, Allen Dawson's Plat of Land, 24 September, Brockenbrough's Statement of Funds, 30 September, Brockenbrough and Daniel Piper, Contract, 8 October, Daniel A. and Mary A. Frances, Deed, 8-9 October 1824, all in ViU:PP, and Jefferson's Plat of Land, ca 8 October 1824, in ViU:TJ; see also #20-02 in Lasala, "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for the University of Virginia." The visitors ratified both purchases at their meeting on 4 October (see Board of Visitors Minutes, that date, in PPAmP:UVA Minutes).

643. Brockenbrough to TJ, 14 July 1824, ViU:PP; see also O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 31, and #17-12 in Lasala, "Thomas Jefferson's Designs for the University of Virginia."

644. See Brockenbrough's Statement of Funds, 30 September, Gorman to Brockenbrough, 30 December 1824, and Loose Receipts, 12 February, 18 March, and Balance Sheet, 31 March 1825, in ViU:PP.

645. A sash pulley is a small lightweight pulley in a window frame over which the sash cord runs. A rim lock has a metal case which is attached to the face of the door, as opposed to a mortise lock, which is sunk in the door's edge.

646. See Robert Johnston & Son to Brockenbrough, 13 August, 5 November, and Draffin's undated Loose Receipt, in ViU:PP.

647. See Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 24 August, 4 October, Andrew Smith to Brockenbrough, 27 September, and 10 November 1824, in ViU:PP.

648. See Thomas Brockenbrough to Brockenbrough, 4 December, and Loose Receipts, 4, 8 December 1824, in ViU:PP.

649. See Thomas May to Brockenbrough, 8, 11 January, 14 February, 10 March, 4 April, 14 May, 9 July, 20, 27 July, 4, 24 August 1825, all in ViU:PP. Andrew Smith moved to New York in late 1824 and Thomas May replaced him as the Boston Glass Manufactory's Richmond agent in January 1825. The Boston firm also manufactured the heavy sheet glass for the dome's skylight (see May to Brockenbrough, 14 February 1825, 17 December 1826, and Brockenbrough's Memorandum on Glass, 28 September 1826, all in ViU:PP). The installation of the skylight had not been completed by mid-July 1827 when N. & D. Sellers of Philadelphia sent some necessary "wire work" to the university (see N. & D. Sellers to Brockenbrough, 19 July 1827, in PPAmP: Nathan and David Sellers Letterbook, 1821-1830).

650. Statement of Funds, 30 September 1824, in ViU:PP.

651. Balance Sheet, 30 September 1824, ViU:PP. When Brockenbrough made a new balance sheet six months later, the figures had risen by $16,738.72½, broken down as follows: $110,803.93 for pavilions, $78,509.55 for dormitories, $32,200.66½ for hotels, $27,626.89 for the Rotunda--altogether $249,141.03½--plus $73,262.53 for other expenses, including real estate ($9,465.75), salaries for the proctor, bursar, clerks, and professors ($3,872.23), labor ($4,010.83), privies ($2,827.12), water works ($1,380.79), and smokehouses ($649.05). See Balance Sheet, 31 March 1825, ViU:PP.

652. Chapman Johnson to John Hartwell Cocke, 3 October 1824, ViU:JHC.

653. In the spring of 1825 John M. Perry sold the university a tract of land connecting the two tracts purchased from the Pipers. See TJ to the Board of Visitors, 15 April, in ViU:JHC, James Madison to TJ, 21 April, in DLC:JM, and Joseph Carrington Cabell to TJ, 6 May, in ViU:TJ, and John M. and Frances T. Perry, Indenture, 9 May 1825, in ViU:PP; see also Cabell, Early History of the University of Virginia, 348-50, 351

654. Board of Visitors Minutes, 4 October 1824, PPAmP:UVA Minutes.

655. Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, 18. Isaac Jefferson (1775-c. 1849), the son of Jefferson's slaves Great George (King George; 1730-1799) and Ursula (1737-1800), apparently trained in tinwork and ironmongery while in Philadelphia and practiced the trades at Monticello after returning to Virginia (see ibid., 13-16, 19, 126).

656. Dinsmore's memorandum, dated 15 April 1809 and located in DLC:TJ, lists several dozen woodworking tools--planes, rasps, saws, chisels, augers, files, and etc.

657. See Board of Visitors Minutes, 5 October 1824, in PPAmP:UVA Minutes.

658. Board of Visitors Minutes, 5 October 1824, PPAmP:UVA Minutes; see also Cabell, Early History of the University of Virginia, (appendix M, no. 6) 480-83.

659. See Lafayette to TJ, 1 October, in Chinard, Letters of Lafayette and Jefferson, 421-23, TJ to Thomas Appleton, 8 October, in DLC:TJ, and TJ to Lafayette, 9 October 1824, in DLC:TJ. Lafayette and his son George Washington Lafayette arrived in New York in August 1824 and then journeyed to New England and back to New York before heading south for Philadelphia and Washington. "We are all alive here with LaFayette's visit," Jefferson wrote to former Monticello farm manager Edmund Bacon on 9 October 1824. "He will be at Monticello as soon as relieved from York, and our nbors will give him a dinner in the University, where probably the principals of the surrounding counties will wait on him" (CSmH:TJ). After crossing the Potomac River the only old French general's first stop in Virginia was at Mount Vernon to visit the grave of George Washington. From Mount Vernon Lafayette and his entourage went by water to Yorktown where he was greeted by Chief Justice John Marshall, Virginia Governor James Pleasants, and an enthusiastic crowd of Revolutionary War veterans. Lafayette next traveled to Williamsburg, Norfolk, and Richmond before setting out by stage to see his old friend at Monticello. During his nine-day stay with Jefferson in Albemarle, Lafayette was honored for three hours at a 400-person dinner in the Rotunda's unfinished dome room, where he reportedly gave a toast to "Charlottesville and the University--an admirable establishment." Lafayette concluded his Virginia tour by riding from Monticello to Montpelier, James Madison's Orange County home, and then to Fredericksburg and back to Washington. See the Richmond Enquirer, 16, 26 November 1824, and Malone, Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, 402-8.

660. TJ to Brockenbrough, 21 April 1825, ViU:PP.

661. Marshall later became a planter in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. For his full description of his visit to the university on Saturday 30 October 1824, see the extract from his diary in "Charlottesville and the University: An 1824 View," Magazine of Albemarle County History, 29:29-31.

662. See John Vowles' Account with Brockenbrough & Harvie, 15 November 1824, in ViU:PP.

663. TJ to Coffee, 9 December 1824, DLC:TJ; see also appendix K and Guinness and Sadler, Mr. Jefferson, Architect, 126.

664. Coffee to TJ, 20 December 1824, DLC:TJ; see also Coffee to TJ, 1, 16 January, in DLC:TJ, Brockenbrough & Harvie to Brockenbrough, 19 January, and Coffee to Brockenbrough, 31 January 1825, in ViU:PP, and O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings of the University of Virginia: The Rotunda, 33, 33-34. In his letter of 20 December, Coffee also informed Jefferson of his plan to manufacture clay and composition flat tiles as an inexpensive roofing alternative to slate and pantiles.

665. Simeon B. Chapman to Brockenbrough, 19 December 1824, ViU:PP.

666. Chiles Brand, Labor Account, 6 January 1825, ViU:PP. Also during December 1824, incidentally, Daniel Webster accompanied George Ticknor and his wife on a trip from Washington to Monticello, where they visited with Jefferson for several days, discussing, among other things, the course of studies planned for the students at the university.

667. See Thomas May to Brockenbrough, 8, 11 January, 14 February, and 10 March, and William Crenshaw's Loose Receipt, 10 January 1825, all in ViU:PP.

668. See Brockenbrough's Balance Sheet, 31 March, and Zigler's Loose Receipt, 4 March 1825, in ViU:PP. By the following fall Zigler, whose receipt was "for Eleven dollars for Pumplogs for 4 pumps," was working for Dabney Smith Carr, Jr., and Joseph Carrington Cabell (see Alexander Garrett to Cabell, 24 September 1825, in ViU:JCC). Additional waterworks were added in 1826 and 1827.