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

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

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List of Appendices

Appendix A: Thomas Jefferson: List of Classical Models for the Pavilions at the University of Virginia

Appendix B: A Note on Prices

Appendix C: List and Description of Carpenter's Tools James Dinsmore's Tool List

Appendix D Extracts from David Watson's Miscellaneous Memoranda

Appendix E Proposed Design Changes

Appendix F Selected Agreements and Contracts

Appendix G Selected Land Documents

Appendix H Selected Loan Documents

Appendix I Sully, Cosway, Peale, and Mills

Appendix J Oldham's Lawsuit Documents

Appendix K Selected Rotunda Documents

Appendix L: Selected Documents Concerning the Raggi Brothers

Appendix M: John Van Lew & Company

Appendix N A. H. Brooks Dispute

Appendix O The Maverick Engravings

Appendix P Selected Letters of Recommendation

Appendix Q: Selected Clock and Bell Documents

Appendix R Selected Documents Concerning the Stables

Appendix S Charles Bonnycastle Plan for Curing Smoking Chimneys [ca 5 October 1828]

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Appendix T Selected Documents Related to the Water Works and Fire Apparatus

James Dinsmore & John M. Perry to the Board of Visitors

William J. Coffee to Thomas Jefferson

James Wade to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough

Andrew Smith to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough

Directions for Making Roman Cement

Andrew Smith to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough

Thomas Jefferson to Board of Visitors

Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough to John Hartwell Cocke

Sellers & Pennock to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough

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Sellers & Pennock Water Works Circulars

LIST OF PRICES.

Coleman Sellers to Samuel Sellers, Sr.

Coleman Sellers to John Hartwell Cocke

Fire Engine Circular

Appendix U William Wertenbaker: Faculty Resolutions

Appendix V Selected Brockenbrough Correspondence

Appendix W Interview with Edmund Bacon [1862]

Appendix X Chronology of Slaves' Involvement, 1817-1846

Editoral Apparatus

Symbols Designating Documents

Repository Symbols and Abbreviations

List of Documents

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John Gorman

Agreement for Stonecutting

Agreement for Stonecutting

[ca 1819]

John Gorman Does agree to Work all the tuscan Basses and Caps and all the other Moulded
Sircular Or Straight Work or plain work for the University of Va.

all Such Work to be measured as agreed on by the Proctor that is to take the Dementions at
the Largest part of the mouldings and to pay for them at 75 Sents pr. foot Superficial all
Such Blocks as will require help the Proctor will lend or Cause to be Lent Such assistance as
may Be required all tool Sharping to Be paid for or Done by Order of the Proctor at the
Shop Now at the University of Va. the Said Work is to be Measured at the End of Every
three Months Beginning from first of January 1820 the one half of the money to be paid then
the other half in Six months after Each Measurement

AD, ViU:PP, 1p, with ASB docket "Gorman Stone cutter." This document is in the undated
material for 1821 in ViU:PP. The agreement was to go in force in January 1820, and
Gorman worked extensively in stonecutting throughout 1820, indicating that the agreement
probably was made in late 1819.