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Date
6-22-1894
Personal Name Recipient
Allison, James W., 1833-1898
Description
Letter from Griffin & Randall to James W. Allison discussing floor joist and noting upcoming visit.
Transcription
June 22nd '94. James W. Allison Esq. Richmond. Va Dear Sir, your's of the 20th and 21st at hand and their contents noted. Floor joist are sawed from logs by saws placed at intervals of two inches, three inches &c. and the joists afterwards shrink more or less according to the amount of seasoning the log has had. The shrinkage should not be over 1/8" in 2", but that much is always found. Consequently no joist less than 1 7/8" should be used. As to the other questions referred to by you, we will have to decide upon them later. Mr. Randall expects to be in Baltimore Monday and perhaps Tuesday and would therefore be in Richmond about Wednesday. We have two firms here figuring on the Dining Rm. finish, and will send a set of the drawings to the Philadelphia firm of Karcher & Rehn Co. who wish to estimate upon the work. The change you wish to have made in the window sills will have no effect upon their figures. Your's truly Griffin & Randall. [ALS, Griffin & Randall to James W. Allison, June 22, 1894, on letterhead: Griffin & Randall Architects 48 Exchange Place New York. Envelope docketed: —G&R— June 22nd. 1894— About shrinking of joist and advising that he will be here about Wednesday next.] [edited by APS]
Personal Name Subject
Allison, James W., 1833-1898 -- Correspondence; Randall, T. Henry, 1869-1905 -- Travel -- Virginia -- Richmond
Corporate Name Subject
Griffin & Randall -- Correspondence
Topical Subject
Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans; Architecture, Domestic -- Virginia -- Richmond; Architects and builders; Architecture -- Details; Letting of contracts -- Virginia -- Richmond; Building -- Estimates -- Virginia -- Richmond; Floors; Finishes and finishing
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 Griffin & Randall to James W. Allison, 1894, June 22, James W. Allison papers, M 1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
pre030.pdf