John Hartwell Cocke
to Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough
Dear sir,
Bremo Sept. 7. 1831
Yours of the 2d came duly to hand--and I avail myself of the opportunity offered by my Son
& Nephew Merit M. Robinson going up to the U. to reply to it.--[880]
In relation to your wounded feelings from the proceedings of the Board of Visitors in
making you as you are pleased to call it subordinate to the proctor; I am sure from what I
knew of my own impressions of the matter, I may venture to say, that it never entered into
the mind of one of the visitors it would be regarded by you in the light of a degradation--As
to my own part, I did not for a moment doubt that you would have found pleasure in giving
the benefit of the experience you had acquired in building the u, to your successor--in a
department of duty, now become of subordinate importance--While he was taking from your
Shoulders the burthensome parts of an office, that your natural infirmity of a want of
hearing, had long rendered you incapable of doing full justice to--And especially--as by
estimates made by the Board--it was beleived that the footing on which you were
left--would make your emoluments equal to a thousand Dollars a year besides your House &
lot
ADft, ViU:JHC, 1p.
[880]
880. Brockenbrough's letter to Cocke of 2 September 1831 complaining about the visitor's
resolutions concerning him is in ViU:JHC. For Brockenbrough's removal as proctor, see
Alexander Garrett to Cocke, 12 September 1831, ViU:JHC.
