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Date
10-26-1895
Personal Name Recipient
Allison, James W., 1833-1898
Description
Letter from T. Henry Randall to James W. Allison discussing work approvals and availability of "Eldorado" wallpaper.
Transcription
Oct. 26th ’95. James W. Allison Esq. Richmond. Dear Sir, Your's of the 24th at hand. I sent my letter you first on purpose to have you add or subtract as you thought best before sending it to Stowe & Nuckols, but I think the case made out against them while general in its character is precisely as strong as yours as you amended it. The question of compensation and of award would in any case have to be considered later in and in detail with each one of these items are mentioned in my letter or not. For instance my saying that; "The materials for floors are not everywhere up to the proper grade required by the specifications nor were they selected nor layed in a proper manner throughout the house" is not made any stronger by the omission of the word "everywhere" or by adding to the above general statement the fact that the "planning, scraping and finishing do not fulfill the specifications &c”. as that is merely explanatory. However, I care more to have you satisfied than to satisfy myself as to the working of such a report, but at the same time I do think that what I intended saying was sufficient and covered the subject generally as far as circumstances warranted. I have had Purdy's agent here and have written out the statement as this and Newcomb's accounts with Stowe & Nuckols and when I have heard from the Henderson people who did the "leaded glass" I shall have all of that part of the subject in shape and shall send them on together. In connection with the hanging of paper in your house and the cost of the "Eldorado" I have something to write. Beck has been in to see me, and he makes this offer, to supply you with the 24 peices of "Eldorado" now and with as many more as you may need in ten days or two weeks, as he has two additional sets on their way from Paris. He will let you have the full set for “$75.00 and the extra peices at the same rate, or he will contract to supply however much you may need for the Hall for $100.00. This is a price that he makes to me and that he will not make to Stearns or any one else. He will send a man to Richmond and put up this paper and any other for six dollars a day and traveling expenses ($15.) He thinks it would require two and a half days to do this room. Ordinarily a man can put up from 18 to 20 rolls of paper per day. He also offered to send his man now in Wilmington to Richmond and do the tinting of ceilings for five & a half dollars a day. I think you had better accept his offers at once. Your's truly, T. Henry Randall. [ALS, T. Henry Randall to James W. Allison, October 26, 1895, on letterhead: T. Henry Randall Architect 52 Broadway. New York. Envelope docketed [image unavailable]: —T. H. R. — Oct 26, 1895— In re-original draft of letter to S. & N. on approval of work on my house Price from F Beck & Co for the Eldorado paper and sending a man to hang same— also a man to tint ceilings and get [next three words illegible] [edited by APS]
Personal Name Subject
Randall, T. Henry, 1869-1905 -- Correspondence; Allison, James W., 1833-1898 -- Correspondence
Corporate Name Subject
Stowe & Nuckols; E.H. Purdy M.F.G. Co.; F. Beck & Co.
Topical Subject
Architecture, Domestic -- Virginia -- Richmond; Architects and builders; Letting of contracts -- Virginia -- Richmond; Wallpaper; Building -- Estimates -- Virginia -- Richmond
Geographic Subject
Richmond (Va.) -- Historic houses, etc.; Richmond (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
City/Location
Richmond (Va)
Genre
letters (correspondence)
Local Genre
text; archives
Type
Still Image; Text
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Building VCU’s President's House
Source
Original letter: Letter from T. Henry Randall to James W. Allison, 1895 October 26, James W. Allison papers, M 1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
pre103.pdf