1James Dinsmore and John M. Perry to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
the Subscribers haveing leveled from the doric pavillion to the springs on the mountain —find the two first to be 6. feet above the water table—at the distance of 1100 yards—one hundred yards further is another sp r ing 26. feet above the water table of pavillion—and still further—say abut 60 yards there is another 75. feet above the s d level—all of these are bold good springs—the furtherest...
2John M. Perry to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 27 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I would Contract to furnish all materials and lay 300,000 bricks at $14. per thousand— according to the Specimin furnished in the Corrinthian pavillion , which tho undertaken by M. Brown was actually executed by me and a further Specimin exhibited in the two ranges of dormitories appendant to the Doric pavillion N o 4 —If it should be required I will even bind myself to execute the work in a...