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Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough to James Oldham
In reply to your note of yesterday morning Stating you have no objection to a settlement of
your accts in Richmond thereby lessing the expence--I have to inform you--cannot agree
that the business Should be done in Richmond for there I cannot attend to it--and again the
Kind of work charged in the bill can be better understood by seeing it again the bills as
made out by you must not be layed before the arbitrators, but new bills including the Items
not Settled by us in quantity and price put down, so that the Arbitrators themselves may
settle the quantity where we disagree and the price--as you have a desire to lessen the
expence, I will meet your proposition thus far--If the two persons Selected to Settle the bills
disagree--I will in all cases where that is the case Split the difference with you, at the same
time--let this agreement between us be Kept a perfect Secret from the arbitrators and give
them to understand where they disagree, they must each give the price were it so happens--I
expect to make an appointment in Richmond when ever I can get down--I am Sir
respectfully yours
A. S. Brockenbrough--P
Copy, document S in Oldham vs University of Virginia, ViU:UVA Chronological File; Copy,
document no. 3 of document U in Oldham vs University of Virginia, ViU:UVA
Chronological File; copy, document no. 3 in "Memoriall to the bord of Visitors of the U.Va.
Octobr 3. 1823," ViU:PP. See James Oldham, Lawsuit against the University of Virginia, 20
November 1823.
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