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Mansfield, Jared, 1759-1830. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1802-1824.

Professor of Philosophy, U.S. Military Academy. Letter, Washington, 4 April 1802, from Abraham Baldwin telling Mansfield of the new law establishing the U.S. Military Academy and offering Mansfield a position as Professor of Philosophy along with commission as Captain; letters discussing the history, curriculum, faculty and cadets of the U.S. Military Academy; correspondence with Dr. Daniel Drake; letters to Captain John M. O'Connor, 1817-1823, discussing the shift of command from Partridge to Major Thayer and praising Thayer's performance as superintendent; two letters to Thomas Jefferson, 1821, one requesting that Jefferson sit for a portrait to be painted by Sully and hung at the Military Academy, the other requesting Jefferson's assistance in getting a USMA chemistry professors' treatise on pyrotechomy published; letter to J.C. Calhoun, then secretary of war, relating Mansfield's view of education and giving some background on the development of the Academy as an academic institution; sketch of Jared Mansfield.

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