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 University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Charles Phillips to David L. Swain, August 28, 1853 Charles Phillips 2 pages, 4 page images 1853 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>2005-07-01,</date> <respStmt> <name>Amanda Page</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc04-33"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc04-33-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter from <name reg="Phillips, Charles " key="pn0001357" type="person">Charles Phillips</name> to <name reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" key="pn0001638" rend="yes">David L. Swain</name>, August 28, 1853</head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000141" reg="Cambridge, MA" type="place">Cambridge, Mass.</name><lb/> <date> Aug. 28<hi rend="sup">th</hi> 1853</date></dateline> <salute>My dear Sir, </salute> </opener> <p> Passing through the streets of <name reg="Boston, MA" key="name0000111" type="place" rend="yes">Boston</name> the other day, I made some more enquiries concerning a hot air stove for our Church. On the other page of this sheet you will find a print of the only wood stove I have seen or heard of. The handle at the top moves a damper which is kept open till the fire burns fiercely, then it is closed & the heat is forced to pass through those curved pipes & thus its transferred to a large volume of air. This furnace is to be set in a brick apartment something like one of our old brick ovens. The air in this cell is heated & then passes off by a tin pipe to the room you wish to heat, while the smoke & gases pass off into the outer air by another sheet iron pipe. The price of this stove is $65.00 here. I do not like this pattern for our case. I do not think that the foundation of our wall ought to be disturbed lest we get a crack. Many of the coal stoves have a sheet iron cap (instead of a brick one) & such, if I can find one, w<hi rend="sup">d</hi> suit us much better, as it might be introduced into a pit & trenches dug under the floor of the Church, thro a hole cut into the floor in one of the side closets. Some thought of going through the Pulpit, but then the opening c<hi rend="sup">d</hi> not be used for making up the fire. Ought not some repost be had on the suitability of the stove advertised in <name key="name0000443" reg="Greensboro, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Greensboro</name>? The ladies offered to put fifty dollars in my hands when I came away, & so anxious are they to have warmth in our Church that I would have their desires gratified if possible.</p> <p> I was glad to hear of your safe return from a very pleasant trip, & sh<hi rend="sup">d</hi> have written to you before this had I not been told that you were to write to me right away. I have written however frequently and fully concerning what I have seen & heard while here, & doubtless my correspondents w<hi rend="sup">d</hi> show you my letters if you thought them worthy of attention. As to my peculiar business<pb id="unc04-33-p02" n="2"/>here, I have not done very much. The sessions all around were just closing & now they are just beginning. So from inspection I can say but little. But I do believe that we can do really as well at <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place" rend="yes">C. Hill</name> as they do anywhere that I have heard of hereabouts, although our pretensions be not so high, & <name reg="Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood " key="pn0000708" type="person" rend="yes">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Hedrick</name> thinks so too. <name type="person" key="pn0003214" reg="Sparks, Jared" rend="yes">President Sparks</name> gave me his views pretty fully entirely in favour of our project, as one needed, likely to be of great utility, and as established at the best point in all <name reg="The South" key="name0001060" type="place">the South</name>, but every thing cannot be settled at once, & <hi rend="underscore">no intimations given of possible failure</hi>. I see that the <hi rend="underscore">ex</hi> <hi rend="underscore">President</hi> thinks that there is no harm in managing the public provided the public is so benefited. <hi rend="underscore">Don't others practice so too?</hi> I am very busy pursuing the applications of my mathematics & do not find such hard work as I feared. The drawing takes up much time. I take lessons in landscape as well as in machinery, & shall also learn to use colours. I can understand the truthfulness of <name type="person" key="pn0003081" reg="Gwynn, Walter" rend="yes">Major Gwynn's </name>complaint that the Schools send out drawing masters but not Engineers, the young men here spend, I sh<hi rend="sup">d</hi> say, waste a great deal of time at their drawing boards. Handsome pictures look well on the sides of a drawing room, but what if the plans for a bridge, or a factory wheel do have hard lines in them. One of my fellows here showed me a picture which cost him the time of six weeks, & the tedium of applying two hundred coats of India Ink. No wonder that he was slow & bungling in telling about lines of the second order, & although he had been through the Calculus was still in doubt as to du/dx. Yet such attainments are showy, & attract attention, & <name key="pn0003214" reg="Sparks, Jared" type="person">Pres. Sparks</name> says we mustn't be as nice at first as we may afterwards when students are plenty. But I sh<hi rend="sup">d</hi> greatly prefer having at first a few first rate fellows who will work & won't grumble, & by them get a reputation for correct mathematical teaching & a sufficiency of neat & accurate drawing. I wish that <name type="person" key="pn0003018" reg="Battle, Richard Henry, Jr." rend="yes">R. Battle</name> & <name type="person" rend="yes" key="pn0000020" reg="Alexander, William Lee">Alexander</name> w<hi rend="sup">d</hi> study with me. I hope that you will write to me often, fully & freely, suggesting points for enquire here & elsewhere. I shall visit <name key="name0001257" reg="Yale University" type="organization" rend="yes">Yale</name> & <name key="name0000124" reg="Brown University" type="organization" rend="yes">Brown</name> in Sept<hi rend="sup">r</hi> or Oct<hi rend="sup">r</hi></p> <closer> <salute>Yours with respects to <name key="pn0001640" reg="Swain, Eleanor (née White)" type="person" rend="yes">Mrs. Swain</name>,</salute> <signed> <name key="pn0001357" reg="Phillips, Charles" type="person">Charles Phillips</name></signed></closer> </div1> <div1 type="advertisement"> <pb id="unc04-33-p03" n="3"/> <p><xref url="/unc/unc04-33/unc04-33-p03.html">[Advertisement]</xref></p> <pb id="unc04-33-p04" n="4"/> <p><xref url="/unc/unc04-33/unc04-33-p04.html">[Advertisement]</xref></p> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>