William B. Phillips to Arthur S. Brockenbrough
| Dear Sir | University of Va March 29ht 1821. |
feeling dispose to solicit your patronage Again for imployment at the University, which I acknowledge myself much inbeted for the past, I do not apprehend its your wish or intention to reduce me in the price. this season, in case you should Be kind Enough to give me any, the maner in which the brickwork has been Executed, and the inconvenience in obtaining the materials such as lime & sand, makes the price much lower, than such [quantities?], is done for Else where, and to do Justice to the same, which has always been my intention as fair as I was capable of doing, If you Should feel disposed to give me further imployment, I will undertake from four hundred & fifty to five hundred thousand Bricks to make and lay this Season, on the Same conditions as the work was undertaken last for,
By giving me imployment, you will encorage one that wants it, with but little gain if any, so situated, as I am
In case you should comply with the above, you will much oblge your Humble Patitioner & obt Srvt