<hi rend="bold"> Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, June 1, 1795:</hi> Electronic Edition. Harris, Charles Wilson, 1771-1804 Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Brian Dietz Images scanned by Bari Helms Text encoded by Brian Dietz First Edition, 2005 ca. 11K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Charles Harris to Dr. Charles Harris, June 1, 1795 Chas W Harris 3 pages, 4 page images 1795 Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-08-08,</date> <respStmt> <name>Brian Dietz</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc03-06"> <body> <div1 type="letter"> <pb id="unc03-06-p01" n="1"/> <head> Letter from <name key="pn0000684" reg="Harris, Charles Wilson" type="person">Charles Harris</name> to <name key="pn0000683" reg="Harris, Charles" type="person">Dr. Charles Harris</name>, June 1, 1795</head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">UNIVERSITY.</name> <lb/> <date>June 1<hi rend="sup">st</hi>, 1795.</date> </dateline> <salute>Dr. Sir,</salute> </opener> <p>By <name key="pn0001307" reg="Osborne, Adlai" type="person">Col. Osborn</name> I received your letter & am doubly glad that <name key="pn000" reg="Harris, Heriot" type="person">Heriot</name> is in such a good state of health. It must add much to the happiness of your family. Your business as physician having increased so much within a year past that if ever you had any serious intentions of coming to this place, you must before now have relinquished it altogether. Many of our <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">trustees</name> are for immediately filling several professorships with proper persons, and at any rate if every thing succeeds tolerably, it cannot be long before there is a professor of Chemistry, Anatomy, &c. There is no physician nearer to this place than <name key="name0000484" reg="Hillsborough, NC" type="place">Hillsborough</name>, some of our students from the East, being very delicate are frequently attacked with returns of their [Disorders] & have [suffered] for the want of medicine. I have therefore with the advice of <name key="pn0000898" reg="Ker, David" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Ker</name> determined to keep a small apartment of Medicine for the accommodation of the students<pb id="unc03-06-p02" n="2"/>& the neighbourhood should they think proper to apply, until some physician shall think it worth his while to settle near us. This I undertake without the most distant prospect of making any thing by it. The medicine I will give out at the cost & charges. If any advantages accrue they will be the pleasure I shall receive from finding myself useful & necessary to any person & the renewing occasionally that smattering of physic which I learnt when with you, an acquisition that I never wish to lose.</p> <p>Inclosed I send you a plan of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> lands, the village, ornamental grounds springs, &c. But it would be unnecessary to enter into a Geographical description. The general opinion is that the place is most happily situated,—a delightful [prospect,] charming [groves,] medicinal springs, light & wholesome air, & inaccessible to vice. The last property <name key="pn0001345" reg="Pettigrew, Charles" type="person">Rev<hi rend="sup">d</hi> Pettegrew</name> bishop from <name key="name0000313" reg="Edenton, NC" type="place">Edenton</name> added when he visited us.<pb id="unc03-06-p03" n="3"/>I send you also a print which is to be put on every book with the donor's name.</p> <closer> <salute rend="right">I am sir with sincerity</salute> <signed> <name key="pn0000684" reg="Harris, Charles Wilson" type="person">yours Cha<hi rend="sup">s</hi> W Harris</name> </signed> <salute> <name key="pn0000683" reg="Harris, Charles" type="person">Doctor Charles Harris</name> </salute> </closer> </div1> <div1 type="postscript"> <p>Make my respects agreeable to <name key="pn000" reg="Harris, Sally" type="person">Aunt Sally</name> and <name key="pn000" reg="Elihu" type="person">Elihu.</name>— —</p> <pb id="unc03-06-bk" n="Back"/> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>