]> <hi rend="bold">Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Duncan Cameron, August 28, 1836:</hi> Electronic Edition. Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857 Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Bari Helms Images scanned by Jesse Brown 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 Elisha Mitchell to Duncan Cameron, August 28, 1836 E. Mitchell 2 pages, 3 page images 1836 Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 27188892

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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>2005-07-07,</date> <respStmt> <name>Brian Dietz</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc03-07"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc03-07-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter from <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person" rend="yes">Elisha Mitchell</name> to <name key="pn0000276" reg="Cameron, Duncan" type="person" rend="yes">Duncan Cameron</name>, August 28, 1836</head> <div2 type="official letter"> <p>[Letter from Elisha Mitchell to Duncan Cameron, with Additional Statement by David Lowry Swain, Accompanying Mitchell's Plan of University Grounds]</p> <div3 type="official letter"> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University of NCa.</name> <date>Aug. 28th 1836</date> </dateline> <salute>To <name key="pn0000276" reg="Cameron, Duncan" type="person">Duncan Cameron</name> Esqr<lb/>Pres of <name key="name0000352" reg="Executive Committee, Board of Trustees" type="organization" rend="yes">Ex. Committee</name></salute> <salute>Sir,</salute> </opener> <p>In partial fulfillment of a promise I made to <name key="pn0003234" reg="Waitt, Thomas A." type="person" rend="yes">Mr Waitt</name> I have this day been out with a chain and compass and obtained a rude (but correct) plan of the grounds about the buildings. The red lines mark partly the streets and partly the lines run by me. It will be apparent from inspection that it will be difficult to divert the travel from the straight <name key="name0000486" reg="Hillsborough Road" type="place">Hillsborough road</name> around by the house where I live but if the Stewards hall shall be transferred to a position which I have marked for it the plan begun by <name key="pn0001277" reg="Nichols, William" type="person" rend="yes">Nichols</name> may be followed out, the existing <gap reason="[unrecovered]"/> road to <name key="name0000486" reg="Hillsborough Road" type="place">Hillsborough</name> stopped up and the travel <gap reason="[unrecovered]"/> to take a longer and <hi rend="underscore">better</hi> route. It will be by the Observatory from the point A there will be a good view of the columns that have been or are to be erected and the traveller with a full view of both roads may take his choice. I shall hand this to <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">President Swain</name> for additions and Corrections — that he may have time for which I subscribe myself in haste.</p> <closer> <salute rend="right">yours Respectfully,</salute> <signed> <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">E. Mitchell</name> </signed> </closer> </div3> <div3 type="official letter"> <opener> <salute>To <name key="pn0000276" reg="Cameron, Duncan" type="person">Duncan Cameron</name> Esqr</salute> </opener> <p><name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> M.</name> has just sent me this letter, but it is 9 o clock, and the mail about closing. It will enable you to judge pretty well, though not as satisfactorily as by personal examination, of the correctness of <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> M<hi rend="sup">s</hi></name> views. I think myself they merit at least respectful consideration</p> <closer> <signed> <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">D.L.S.</name> </signed> </closer> </div3> </div2> <div2 type="map"> <pb id="unc03-07-p02" n="2"/> <p> <figure entity="unc03-07-p02"> <head>[<name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person">Elisha Mitchell's</name> Plan of <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> Grounds]</head> <figDesc> <note type="note">Pen-and-ink map prepared in 1836 by Elisha Mitchell, professor of chemistry and university bursar. The map is part of a letter dated 28 August 1836 from Mitchell to Duncan Cameron, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. It shows the layout of the streets around the university, proposed new roads, and the locations of some campus buildings and village residences.</note> <note type="spatial">Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina</note> <note type="coordinates">35.94725 N, 79.07378 W</note> <note type="size">20 x 31.5 cm</note> <note type="file format">JPEG</note> <note type="spatial resolution">100</note> </figDesc> </figure> </p> </div2> <div2 type="back"> <pb id="unc03-07-bk" n="Back"/> <p>[Back Page Image]</p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>