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WILLIAM HENRY BROCKENBROUGH

488. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 200.

489. Patton, Glimpses, p. 34.

490. Bruce, vol. 1, pp. 238, 275.

491. Bruce, vol. 1, pp. 276-278.

492. Bruce, vol. 1, pp. 250, 259, 264.

493. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 6. Professor Long was short in stature, and Bruce
quotes a student couplet:

The familiar couplet, of which this was a parody, was perhaps known to
the students from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, 1766, chapter eight,
The Hermit. The form there is
Goldsmith enclosed the couplet within quotation marks. An earlier form
appeared in Young's Night Thoughts, 1742, Night four, line 118, as follows:
The dictionaries of quotations record the use of the couplet by various
more recent writers, including Dickens in Old Curiosity Shop, 1841,
Chapter eight.

494. Bruce, vol. 1, p. 277; vol. 3, p. 191.

495. Bruce, vol. 3, p. 190.

496. Visitors' Minutes, 19 July 1833, records a statement by Librarian
Brockenbrough concerning "his late father."

497. Bruce, vol. 2, p. 199, describes the Librarian as "a kinsman of the
proctor of that name." But the preceding footnote and a letter from the
Librarian to Joseph C. Cabell dated 11 August 1834 make it clear that the
Proctor was the Librarian's father.

498. Visitors' Minutes, 18 July 1831.

499. Faculty Minutes, 25 February 1832.

500. Faculty Minutes, 2 October 1832.

501. Visitors' Minutes, 13 July 1833.

502. Visitors' Minutes, 19 July 1833.

503. This letter of Brockenbrough to Joseph C. Cabell, dated 11 August 1834,
is preserved in the Alderman Library.

504. See section II, page 19, of this historical sketch.

505. Visitors' Minutes, 17 July 1832.

506. Visitors' Minutes, 19 July 1833.

507. Faculty Minutes, 8 October 1834. John Patton Emmet, Professor of
Chemistry and Materia Medica, was Chairman of the special committee, and
the other members were George Tucker, Professor of Philosophy, and Alfred
T. Magill, Professor of Medicine.

508. Faculty Minutes, 11 November 1834.

509. Faculty Minutes, 18 November 1834.

510. Faculty Minutes, 28 November 1834.

511. Faculty Minutes, 11 November 1834.

512. Faculty Minutes, 30 December 1834 and 9 January 1835.

513. Faculty Minutes, 30 June 1835.

514. Visitors' Minutes, 8 July 1835.

515. The faculty minutes do not record the law degrees for those years, but
the alumni record (Schele de Vere) indicates that Brockenbrough was granted
his in 1834.

516. Patton, Glimpses, p. 34. The Congressional Directory, which is the
reference for the following note, gives his date of birth as 23 February

1812 and his date of death 28 January 1850. He was therefore within a
month of being thirty-eight when he died.

517. Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1949... Washington,
1950, pp. 891-892. There is no mention in this account of Brockenbrough
having been Librarian at the University of Virginia. In fact the account
does not even mention the University of Virginia as the place of his education
in law.