On May 3, 1886, Samuel B. Woods wrote a letter to the Rector of the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia about reapplying to the Commissionership of Accounts. A year earlier in June 1885, Woods, an attorney from Charlottesville, was appointed and was "in sympathy with the political tenets of the majority of the board...and recommended by some of the professors." Now, he was worried...