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 John Kimberly Papers (#398), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Charles Phillips to John Kimberly, July 8, 1875 Charles Phillips 4 pages, 5 page images 1875 Call number 398 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> <language id="lat">Latin</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-11-01,</date> <respStmt> <name>Amanda Page</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc09-21"> <body> <div1 type="letter"> <pb id="unc09-21-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter from <name key="pn0001357" reg="Phillips, Charles" type="person" rend="yes">Charles Phillips</name> to <name key="pn0000909" reg="Kimberly, John " rend="yes" type="person">John Kimberly</name>, July 8, 1875</head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000263" reg="Davidson College" type="place" rend="yes">Davidson College N.C.</name></dateline> <dateline><date>Thursday, July 8<hi rend="sup">th</hi> 1875</date></dateline></opener> <p>Well! my old colleague and my new, friend of the past and of the future, I look forward with interest when we shall again work together for the good of <name key="name0000745" reg="North Carolina" type="place" rend="yes">North Carolina</name> at her once famous <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization" rend="yes">University</name>. May it be our good fortune to put an end to the common exclamation concerning it, "<foreign lang="lat"><hi rend="underscore">Quantum mutatus ab illo</hi>.</foreign>" We have a great work before us, a work of patience, of energy, and of tact. I rejoice that it has been committed to a Faculty in which the public says it has confidence. The wheel of time turns up unexpected phenomena. You & I will have to take counsel from <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="yes">Geo. Winston</name> and <name key="pn0000611" reg="Graves, Ralph H." type="person" rend="yes">Ralph Graves</name>, the <hi rend="underscore">Fresh</hi> of 1866-67!! But now they are energetic young men, well equipped with every thing but experience. <name key="pn0000611" reg="Graves, Ralph H." type="person">Graves</name> is at <name key="name0000743" reg="The North" type="place" rend="yes">the North</name> looking into institutions where<pb id="unc09-21-p02" n="2"/>his own department is at present well developed. I thank you for the confidence you reposed in me by giving a carte blanche as to your representation in our late conference in <name key="name0000934" reg="Raleigh, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Raleigh</name>. What we said & did was clouded with darkness and entirely provisional. We resolved to work as they do in <name key="name0001163" reg="University of Virginia" rend="yes" type="organization">the Univ. of V<hi rend="underscore"><hi rend="sup">a.</hi></hi></name> by departments, called Colleges, so that there might be an Agricultural College, to satisfy the law which gives us the scrip. A student may if he fills his time properly study what he pleases. But there are to be four courses for diplomas—A.B., A.M., Bach. of Science, & Bach. of Agric. Your work is be mainly with this last course <hi rend="underscore">of three years</hi>. What it is to be in detail we have yet to settle. I hope that your varied experience will furnish you with very definite notions on this subject. The requisites for admission into the Agricult. Coll. are to be only a competent knowledge of English, Geogr. & Arthim.<pb id="unc09-21-p03" n="3"/>I liked the looks and talk of our future colleagues very well. They seem to be in earnest, and likely to work with all sincerity, and with vigour wherever they can do good. The chief schools of the country, e.g. <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Buphaw</name>'s & <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Horner</name>'s & <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Faucetle</name>'s express a readiness to cooperate with us heartily. <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Prof. Redd</name>, with whom you will have the most to do, is by birth a <name key="name0001190" reg="Virginia" rend="yes" type="place">Virginian</name>, a pupil of <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Horner</name>'s, an eleve of the <name key="name0003119" reg="Virginia Military Institute" type="organization">V<hi rend="underscore"><hi rend="sup">a.</hi></hi> Mil. Inst.</name>, & a student of the <name key="name0001163" reg="University of Virginia" type="organization">Univ. of V<hi rend="underscore"><hi rend="sup">a.</hi></hi></name> His people (the <name key="name0000068" reg="Baptists" rend="yes" type="organization">Baptists</name>) are satisfied with him. All everyway down & up, I met hearty congratulations on the rehabilitation of <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">the Univ</name>. The good people of <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">C. Hill</name> who have hardly smiled since we left have faces full of light. Carpenters & Masons and Painters are busy repairing our residences and the college buildings. They assigned your old quarters to you, <name type="person" key="pn0000726" reg="Hepburn, Andrew Dousa " rend="yes">Hepburn</name>'s to <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Redd</name>, my father's to <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Prof. Mangum</name>, & <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person" rend="yes">Go<hi rend="sup">v</hi> Swain's</name> to me, <name key="pn0000782" reg="Hooper, William (b. 1768) " type="person" rend="yes">Prof. Hooper</name> over to <name key="pn0000119" reg="Battle, William H." type="person" rend="yes">Judge Battle's</name>. The <pb id="unc09-21-p04" n="4"/>Bachelors are to take rooms in the <name type="place" key="name0001062" reg="South Building" rend="yes">Old South</name>, "<hi rend="underscore">Wilts</hi>." <name key="pn0001638" reg="Swain, David Lowry" type="person">Swain</name> asks for your help in reinstating him as your man of all work. I am busy packing up & shall move to <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">C. Hill</name> as soon as I learn that my house is habitable. My own residence is occupied by my mother & sister. You will find some old faces among the <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">C. Hill</name> folks, e.g. <name key="pn0001836" reg="Yancy, Lemuel " type="person" rend="yes">Lem Yancey's</name> & Lee <gap reason="[unrecovered]"/>. But many there will be strange to us. Nevertheless all will greet us heartily. <name key="x" reg="x" type="person">Mr. Mitchell</name> is to be our Bursar & Bookseller. He will do for you anything he can as I would were I there. We ought to get to <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">C. Hill</name> as soon as possible to determine our future operations in detail: that there be no appearance of work by novices at the old <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">Univ. of N.C.</name> We shall have the hearty cooperation of <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization" rend="yes">the Trustees</name> & but little interference from them. We shall be crippled for the want of money (for a while at least). But if we commend ourselves to the public this too will come in. My wife sends her greetings to <name key="pn0000905" reg="Kimberly, Caroline (née Capehart) " rend="yes" type="person">Mrs. K.</name> as does your faithfully </p> <closer> <signed> <name key="pn0001357" reg="Phillips, Charles" type="person">Charles Phillips</name></signed></closer> </div1> <div1 type="postscript"><pb id="unc09-21-p05" n="5"/> <p>It will be a fortnight at least before I leave my present home. </p> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>