James W. Widderfield to Arthur S. Brockenbrough

Dear Sir

Provided the work is given me at the university I would bind myself to execute the same in the manner requiered on the following tarms viz. I would be willing to obligate myself to do the Carpenter work & Joinery’s work of a Hotel & Dormitarys attach’d there to at the prices hearetofore giveen for work of the same description

done at the university or [. . .] by M. Carrys book of prices printed at Phildelphia in 1812 I would furnish my own timber if requiered as low as it can be obtaind

yours Respectfully
James Widderfield
RC (ViU: PP); dateline adjacent to signature; addressed: “Capt. A. S. Brockenbrough P U V—”; endorsed by Brockenbrough: “Widderfields Proposals same as heretofore.”

The book of prices was Mathew Carey’s House Carpenters’ Book of Prices, and Rules for measuring and valuing all their different kinds of work (Philadelphia, 1812).