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Date
11-4-1894
Personal Name Recipient
Allison, James W., 1833-1898
Description
Letter from Percy Griffin to James W. Allison concerning the issue of which architect will finish the house.
Transcription
[word illegible] 4th Nov. '94. Dear Mr. Allison? I sincerely regret bringing up the question of the finishing of your house, again? But as Randall and I shall have separate offices after this week, and I remaining in the old offices at at 48 Exchange Place, I must bother you once more? You, must decide as to which of us shall go on with the work? I have no objection to Randall's finishing the work which he brought into the office and I propose to do the same thing with your house? I was written to personally in the first place to do the work subject to your approval? and brought the work into the office and I consider that it should fall to me to carry it out? I cannot compell you to do this, but think that you should write saying that as the firm is dissolved and the members of it are to occupy different offices, you request me to finish the work? as I commenced it? I look upon you as my clients in the same way that I look upon others, as his, clients? I should not have brought this question to you had it not been carried so far as it has. I trust you will let me hear from you at once and what you say shall be final. If you so order it, I shall not go to Richmond again? With best wishes for your very good health, believe me always Very sincerely yours Percy Griffin [ALS, Percy Griffin to James W. Allison, November 4, 1894. Envelope docketed: [image unavailable] Self Notice #3 B. 173] [Edited by MTD]
Personal Name Subject
Griffin, Percy -- Correspondence; Allison, James W., 1833-1898 -- Correspondence
Corporate Name Subject
Griffin & Randall -- Reorganization
Topical Subject
Architecture, Domestic -- Virginia -- Richmond; Architects and builders -- New York (State) -- New York; Architectural offices -- New York (State) -- New York; Corporate reorganizations; Project management
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 Percy Griffin to James W. Allison, 1894 November 4, James W. Allison papers, M 1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
pre060.pdf