Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough to Rice W. Wood
I am unwilling to run the University of Va to any great expence about Settling the matters of
Controversity between James Oldham and it--I should be glad to Know how far your client
is willing to go in defraying the expences if I will consent to the appointment of persons to
settle the accounts--I am Sir respectfully Your Obt Servt
A. S, Brockenbrough
A Copy Teste William S. Eskridge C.C.C
Copy, document X in Oldham vs University of Virginia, ViU:UVA Chronological File. See
James Oldham, Lawsuit against the University of Virginia, 20 November 1823. William S.
Eskridge, the second and last clerk of the chancery court at Staunton, was married to
Margaret Brown, the daughter of the courts judge, John Brown (see Waddell, Annals
of Augusta County, 375, 388).
