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Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough
I return you the contract with Dinsmore & Nelson which I approve of for the strong reasons
assigned in your letter. I think my Colleagues, as well as myself are very desirous of being
able at certain stages of the work to ascertain the exact state of our funds, that we may stop
where they fail. The having to bring measurers from Philadelphia may be some obstruction
to that. but I presume we may hereafter find means of effecting that
I return you also the contract with Thorn & Chamberlain and salute you with friendship and
respect
Th: Jefferson
ALS, ViU:PP, 1p [1983] with ASB docket "T. Jefferson to A S B----h Mar 12. 23"; ADft,
ViU:PP, 1p [1983]; printed, O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The
Rotunda, 25. Dinsmore & Neilson's contract with Brockenbrough of 11 March for work on
the Rotunda is attached to the ALS. For the contract of Thorn & Chamberlain of 8 March
for brickwork on the Rotunda, see above.
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