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Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson
In finishing the Library room of the Rotunda in what way do you propose securing it at the
head of The stairs? whether by a partition around the well hole of the Stairs and a door in
the front of landing or a lobby extending to the rear of the columns next the stairs? I should
be glad to have your opinion on the subject.--Dr Emmet I find is much dissatisfied with the
proposed arrangement for his laboratory--He thinks the small room in the basement of the
Rotunda will not answer the purpose for the want of room & light--he wishes to have the
use of both of the large oval rooms in the basement one for his lecture room the other for a
laboratory, if this be granted him where then shall the room for a Museum be fited up?--Will
the dining room of the Pavilion No 1 answer that purpose for the present?--or the rooms on
the 2nd floor of the same pavilion?--In a letter of 4th ulto: Dr Brockenbrough informs me he
has remited $18,000--to the Bank of the U.S. in Philadelphia to be placed to the Credit of
Wm Hilliard, a reciept for the same to be forwarded to me from that Bank--With the hope,
that your disease is so far abated as to permit us to have the pleasure of your company here
before long I have the honor to be with great respect your Obt sevt
A. S Brockenbrough
ALS, ViU:PP, 2p [2192] with TJ docket "Brockenbro' A. S. Unvy. June 6. 25. recd June 7.";
printed (extract), O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda,
35-36.
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