Arthur S. Brockenbrough to John H. Cocke
| Dear Sir | University April 13 1823 |
I wrote you pr Mr Cabell requesting you would send up your moulder & six boys as soon as possible, as I have not heared any thing of them and beleiving it possible for that letter to Misscarry, I again write to request you will send them without delay. Mr Chamberlain the bearer of this is on his way to Richmond to try to get a first rate moulder for us, as we have bein disappointd in geting one on from the North, [. . .]
In his reply of 14 Apr., John H. Cocke informed Brockenbrough that he was sending Charles, likely as moulder, and six boys, named Anthony, Giles, Mike, Frank, Mat, and Ben to work in the University of Virginia brickyard. A seventh enslaved boy named Gilbert was to work with master builder John Neilson.