Robert Toombs letter, 1869 December 1.

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Robert Toombs letter, 1869 December 1.

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The collection consists of one ALS, 6 pages, from Robert Toombs in Washington, Georgia, dated December 1, 1869, To Colonel Charles Colcock Jones. After a brief account of his health, Toombs takes up the question of whether the Trustees of the University of Georgia, of which he was one, will create a chair of "Archaeology and the Natural History of Man," which Jones would then be hired to fill. The letter also discusses the readiness of the Trutees to create new chairs "as fast as we can get the men to fill them," the financial position of the university ("our means have hither to been very ample & are now for the gradual increase of the means of extending knowledge among our people") and the reluctance of the Trustees to ask the legislature for more money ("we were not inclined to call on the present power for favours of any kind"). The chair apparently did not materialize, and Jones remained in New York unil 1878.

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