<hi rend="bold"> Letter from Charles Harris to James Hogg, September 1, 1796:</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. 15K 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 James Hogg, September 1, 1796 Chas W. Harris 5 pages, 6 page images 1796 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="unc05-10"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc05-10-p01" n="1"/> <head> Letter from <name key="pn0000684" reg="Harris, Charles Wilson" type="person">Charles Harris</name> to <name key="pn0000754" reg="Hogg, James (of Hillsborough, NC)" type="person">James Hogg</name>, September 1, 1796</head> <div2 type="official letter"> <opener> <salute>My dear friend,</salute> </opener> <p> I now have the pleasure of informing you that <name reg="Caldwell, Joseph" key="pn0000268" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Caldwell</name> intends to accept of the professorship of Mathematics at this place. I received his final answer by last Tuesday's post. He will set out on his journey in the first week of next month & will probably arrive about the first of November. I feel a secret pride in finding that the prospects of our national institution are so flattering, as to entice to it men of real abilities and merit; and you who are so entirely devoted to its interest cannot but rejoice that you have thus far been successful in establishing an <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>. I had communicated to <name key="pn0000268" reg="Caldwell, Joseph" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Caldwell</name>, agreeably to his request, a very particular, and as far as I was able, an accurate account of our affairs, and for his information had inclosed a small, rough plan of the intended situation of the buildings, avenues and walks, all which he shewed to <name key="pn0001574" reg="Smith, Samuel S." type="person">D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Smith</name>, and in his last letter had favoured me with the intelligence which I have transcribed into the annexed paper. Of it you are at liberty to make what use you think proper, as you are one of the Committee of correspondence<pb id="unc05-10-p02" n="2"/>and appointments. After you have perused the paper I beg leave to add the following remarks respecting <name key="pn0001574" reg="Smith, Samuel S." type="person">D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Smith</name>. He is as elegant and accurate a classical scholar as any professor in any of the Northern Colleges. He has devoted much time to the study of moral and political Philosophy & the philosophy of nature and we may judge of his progress in these, by some of his publications. He is well versed in Rhetoric & the Belles Lettres his style is said to be neat, & elegant. He is a standard of pronunciation, and his delivery is articulate, & pleasing, his gesture easy and engaging. In short he is possessed of many qualities of an Orator. His age is near fifty he is rather above the common size & when I knew him, inclined to corpulency. He is universally thought handsome in his person & very polite in his manner. What <name key="pn0000268" reg="Caldwell, Joseph" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Caldwell</name> has related of the conversation between <name key="pn0001574" reg="Smith, Samuel S." type="person">D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Smith</name> & himself is in a loose, epistolary style; and the conditions mentioned cannot be supposed to be determinate. The whole I submit to you. For my own part if I know anything of <name key="pn0001574" reg="Smith, Samuel S." type="person">D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Smith</name> & the situation of this place I am certain, he would be more useful than any man you could procure from <name key="name0000238" reg="Connecticut" type="place">Connecticut</name> even Bishop Seabury himself.</p> <p>As to our affairs at present, everything goes on in an ordinary way. The young gentlemen have not<pb id="unc05-10-p03" n="3"/>put us to the necessity of inflicting any high censures since the commencement of the session, but have applied themselves to their respective studies with much industry and regularity. <name key="pn000" reg="Richards, Mr." type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Richards</name> who assists in the preparatory school writes a very fine hand & by his method and attention promises to be an acquisition to the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> in the way of writing. We expect to see you now & then if it be not inconvenient. Do me the honour of presenting my best respects to your family. I am sir, your most</p> <closer> <salute rend="right">humble servant</salute> <signed> <name key="pn0000684" reg="Harris, Charles Wilson" type="person">Cha<hi rend="sup">s</hi> W. Harris</name> </signed> <salute> <name key="pn0000754" reg="Hogg, James (of Hillsborough, NC)" type="person">Dr. James Hogg</name> </salute> </closer> </div2> <div2 type="postscript"> <p><name key="pn0003003" reg="Alves, Gavin" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Gavin Alves</name> will much oblige me by making out a very small abstract of the state of the funds of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>. I spoke to him on that subject at our last examination.</p> </div2> <div2 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc05-10-p04" n="4"/> <head type="original">Part of <name key="pn0000268" reg="Caldwell, Joseph" type="person">M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Caldwells</name> letter</head> <p>"I showed our correspondence to <name key="pn0001574" reg="Smith, Samuel S." type="person">D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Smith</name> the Day after I received your last letter. He read it and hesitated not to advise my acceptance. He is not well satisfied with his present situation, as he informed me before I left him. He looked at the plan chosen for the buildings on <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel hill</name> & went so far, as to say that he would be ready to relinquish his establishment & prospects here & remove to your <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, if the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">trustees</name> or those in whose power it should be, would give up the disposition and direction of affairs into his hands, the ordering of the buildings in their structure and situation, of the environs of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, the choice of the Library &c, &c. He thought that by the additional expense of a few thousand dollars more than what the present plan will require, the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> might be made superior in elegance as well as convenience to any thing in our country. It is an undeniable truth that <name key="pn0001574" reg="Smith, Samuel S." type="person">D<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Smith</name> is a man of superior cultivation and taste. These are so far from being superficial, that they are entirely of the solid and substantial kind. His reputation as a man of genius, of science, and of talents peculiarly fitted for instruction and<pb id="unc05-10-p05" n="5"/>discipline are too well known to you & to the people of the <name key="name0001144" reg="United States" type="place">U. States</name> to need any explanation. He has a family that must be expensive any where, but particularly in such a place as this; where the inhabitants with whom he is obliged to be in habits of ceremony, affect to be of what themselves would call the highest order. Being on a road which is travelled more than any other in the <name key="name0001144" reg="United States" type="place">U. States</name>, his disposition inclines him, and his situation obliges him to receive and entertain, with much expense, visitors at all times. It is by no means necessary for me to inform you that the inhabitants of this place were never agreeable to him nor he to them. As to his health, he declares that he is seriously apprehensive of the effects of the next winter upon it. He has filled the office of president with more mildness than he did that of vice president. The trustees of this place would certainly be very unwilling to part with him.</p> <closer> <signed> <name key="pn0000268" reg="Caldwell, Joseph" type="person">Joseph Caldwell</name> </signed> </closer> </div2> <pb id="unc05-10-bk" n="Back"/> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>