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
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Call number 40005 (University Archives,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Letter from
Dabney Cosby to
Collier
&
Waitt
,
Feb. 25, 1845
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 MrDavis was there
would not enable him to perceive the rottenness of the foundation work of those
Buildings. GovrS.
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
The 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.
The contract is complete and will come with me. I hope I will not
be delayed more than 10 days.
Yrs Respy.
Dabney
Cosby
Meal and Bacon for
Osborne, what he says you may rely
on.