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Philip Sturtevant to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough
I Recd. yours of the 7th yesterday and in answer there to I will Carve the Composit Capitals
in Cluding the Neck Moulding in Every respect Out of the Best of Timber and in the Best
Manner after the Plan of Palladio in his first Book Plate xxx for 75 Seventy five Cents Per
inch Measured By Girting the Collum or Capital at the Neck I Realy am So anxsious to Cut
them that I must Beg of you Not to dispose of the work with Out Leting Me Know and I
must Honestly Say that I Could furnice them Something Lower Rather than Miss of the Job
But thay are So Extremly Low that I Think you will Not Hesitate to Give me the work as I
Must again assure you Thay Shall be Done in the Very Best Manner Carfully Boxt up and
forwarded on Respectfully Yours
Philip Sturtevant
ALS, ViU:PP, 1p, with ASB docket "P. Sturtevant 17 June 24 Composit Capitals."
Brockenbrough calculated a column of figures totaling 1,290 on the coversheet.
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