<hi rend="bold"> Letter from Professor William J. Martin to the Board of Trustees, July 13, 1867:</hi> Electronic Edition. Martin, William James 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 Caitlin R. Donnelly Text encoded by Caitlin R. Donnelly First Edition, 2007 ca. 12K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2007

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 University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from Professor William J. Martin to the Board of Trustees, July 13, 1867 W. J. Martin 3 pages, 4 page images 1867 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>2007-05-31,</date> <respStmt> <name>Caitlin R. Donnelly</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc09-68"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc09-68-p01" n="[1]"/> <head> Letter from Professor <name key="pn0001096" reg="Martin, William James" type="person" rend="yes">William J. Martin</name> to the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board of Trustees</name>, July 13, 1867 </head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Chapel Hill</name> <date>July 13<hi rend="sup">th</hi> / 67</date> </dateline> <salute>To the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Board of Trustees</name><lb/><name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization" rend="yes">University of No. Ca.</name></salute> <salute>Gentlemen,</salute> </opener> <p>I beg leave to tender my resignation as Professor in the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name>, & to ask its immediate acceptance at your hands.</p> <p>Under ordinary circumstances I would not essay to leave my post without the customary notice, but the times are peculiar & I throw myself upon your generosity for an immediate release.</p> <p>I have most reluctantly & painfully come to the conclusion that I must leave the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> at all. I have steadily refused hitherto all overtures to go elsewhere; but <pb id="unc09-68-p02" n="[2]"/>the present condition of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">College</name> is so gloomy, & its prosperity in the immediate future so precarious that I do not feel justified in any further effort to weather the storm. Of the ultimate success & the future bright career of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> I have no more doubt than I have of its former extraordinary popularity. But I cannot afford to await the change. If I must leave at all, my poverty utterly precludes the possibility of my giving the required six months notice. If I were to give that notice now, at the end of the time I might, & probably would, find myself without a place & without "visible means of support." Remunerative places are not one <pb id="unc09-68-p03" n="[3]"/>to ten to the applicants for them. My only chance then is to provide a new home before I leave the old one. Absolute poverty leaves me no other course, & as it is, I shall be compelled to borrow the money that is to carry me to my new field of labor.</p> <p>I write by the same mail that carries this to the Trustees of the <name key="name0000216" reg="Columbia, TN" type="place">Columbia (Tenn)</name> High School to say that I will accept their offer, and I hope you will not consider me unreasonable in asking you, under all the circumstances, to grant my dismissal. </p> <closer> <salute rend="center">I beg to remain</salute> <salute rend="right">Your very Ob't serv't</salute> <signed><name key="pn0001096" reg="Martin, William James" type="person">W. J. Martin</name><lb/>Prof. Chem. &c<lb/><name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">Univ. N. C.</name></signed> </closer> <pb id="unc09-68-bk" n="[Back]"/> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>