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Your favor by Yates Hunt was handed to me by him some days
since, and I have written a letter to Dr. Harrison as you requested,
but after further reflection I have some doubt as to the propriety
of sending it.
The question that has arisen in my mind is this-after having
signed (as I did most cheerfully ) Dr. Smith's recommendation, will
there not be danger of weakening the effect that may produce by giving
occasion for a suspicion that I have been influenced more by
feelings of friendship towards you or a concealed partisanship of some
kind than by a conviction of your real merits and proper qualifications
for the place? I do not know but I am altogether wrong in this,
but the view has presented itself so strongly to my mind that I am
inclined to hesitate, and desire to hear from you on the subject
before forwarding the letter.
Have the goodness to write me freely on the subject, as nothing
could give me greater pleasure than to afford you any proper
aid I may be able to in reference to this matter. I am fully satisfued
of your ability, in every respect, to fill the place with credit
to yourself & the University of Virginia, and benefit to the cause
of education; and would gladly do just the proper thing to aid you
in obtaining the place.
With a lively recollection of pleasant intercourse in
former years, I remain very sincerely
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