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Primary document
Title: Letter from Dabney Cosby to Collier &
Waitt, February 25, 1845: Electronic Edition.
Author: Cosby, Dabney, 1779-1862
Funding from the University Library, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this
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First Edition,
2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 7K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
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Revision history:
2005-06-24, Risa Mulligan finished TEI/XML encoding
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Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers
(#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Title of document: Letter from Dabney Cosby to Collier &
Waitt, February 25, 1845
Author: Dabney Cosby
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 40005 (University Archives,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Page 1
Raleigh
25th Feby 1845
Messrs.
Collier
&
Waitt
and Govr
Swain
,
I have reflected on the impropriety of diging those pitts for
cellars at the weak end of the present Buildings and determined to enter my
protest against it. it is wrong to go beyond two feet in the East
foundation
& about 3 feet in that of the West
— every inch below that weakens the
old Buildings and I (not knowing the use or design of those rooms below) would
think them unfit to inhabit and altogether useless, the short time Mr
Davis was there
would not enable him to perceive the rottenness of the foundation work of those
Buildings. Govr
S.
thinks the West
a good one, he is mistaken they are
both entirely rotten and cannot be depended on.
foundation
& about 3 feet in that of the West
— every inch below that weakens the
old Buildings and I (not knowing the use or design of those rooms below) would
think them unfit to inhabit and altogether useless, the short time Mr
Davis was there
would not enable him to perceive the rottenness of the foundation work of those
Buildings. Govr
S.
thinks the West
a good one, he is mistaken they are
both entirely rotten and cannot be depended on.I have directed the diging to be done first at the West Building
after setting the scaffold poles round both and not go nearer than 4 feet to
the old house
after setting the scaffold poles round both and not go nearer than 4 feet to
the old houseThe death of
Dr Henry of
Augusta makes it my duty to go there
immediately (My son in law)
Osborne will have his mortar made up and
then when
John gets them the West
work may be
begun, Hale Lands,
Mr Collier
, too much
cannot be got there if it is good
Page 2
I hope this
matter may meet the
Govrs
views. We all have the same object in view, I will do
as much work on anything else, a deduct, but beyond this I must protest.
work may be
begun, Hale Lands,
Mr Collier
, too much
cannot be got there if it is goodPage 2
views. We all have the same object in view, I will do
as much work on anything else, a deduct, but beyond this I must protest. The contract is complete and will come with me. I hope I will not
be delayed more than 10 days.
Yrs Respy.
Dabney Cosby