Title of collection: David L. Swain Papers (#706), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L.
Swain, May 31, 1850
Author: Alex J. Davis
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
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Call number 706 (Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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I hasten to send you the design for your Alumni Hall. I was
obliged to redraw the whole, but the result has been to improve the plan, so as
to make it such as would be creditable to any University, as a specimen of
classical taste, or to its general character, and proportions, whatever defects
there may be in the details, or execution.
I shall send a specification and some other drawings with the roll
or portfolio (to
Raleigh) on the Lunatic Asylum, in a few days, as I now go
about to prepare the same without delay. Please say to any member of the
lunatic committee that I shall send early next week, by post, a plan of the
foundations of the center building, which the workmen will first want to dig
and lay stone by.
In the mean time I remain Yours respectfully and
truly
The two capitals to the columns of your Hall I wish to have carved
here with foliage of
maize; wheat and tobacco; and the shaft should
be reeded, with or without a bare as I shall
determine hereafter.