University of Virginia Library

REQUEST OF PROFESSOR DUMAS MALONE

President Darden inaugurated a discussion of the request received from Mr. Dumas Malone,
Professor of History at Columbia University, Honorary Consultant in the University of Virginia
Faculty, and Jefferson biographer, for permission to build a house on University property, in
the edge of the Copeley Hill area, to facilitate his future research in the Alderman Library

After discussion the Board resolved that the President be authorized to negotiate with
Mr. Malone a tentative agreement incorporating a reversionary right and also the right by
the University, in the event of emergency need, to purchase the proposed house at a
depreciated value