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(1751 - 1836) Fourth President of the United States considered the ""Father of the Constitution"", he authored the Federalist papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights. Important content A.L.S. ""James Madison"" 3pp. 4to., Montpelier, Va. Oct. 9, 1824 to THOMAS JEFFERSON discussing the recruitment of professors for the newly established University of Virginia. In 1824 Jefferson had requested Francis Walker Gilmore, a Virginia lawyer who himself had declined the law chair at the University, to travel to Great Britain to recruit professors and obtain books and equipment for the school. Here Madison discusses the progress of Gilmore's mission, in part: ""...The foreign prospect for the University is very gloomy and the domestic far from bright. We must not however despond. What occurs to me as best on the occasion is that Mr. Gilmore proceed to exhaust the experiment in G. Britain; and if necessary then to extend it to Ireland. On the question how long he should be allowed to postpone his return, I think he ought to be so limited that he may arrive with his recruits by the month of April unless indeed a longer stay would ensure some important success. If he could obtain good professors of the ancient Languages, and of Mathematics & Astronomy, there, with the accomplished professor of Modern languages it would blunt the edge of the disappointment and abridge essentially the task of filling vacancies form our own stock..."". Madison continues, weighing the merits of domestic and foreign professors and then goes on to specifics: ""...For the Chemical Chair, Vauxmem [?] may claim attention. He was strongly recommended by Cooper; and if a mistake not has been handsomely spoken of...It is possible he may have been put beyond our reach. The medical class in our Country is so numerous that a competent choice may be hoped for. Natural History as been a good deal studied in the N. States but I rather recollect names than known characters. Say, Barton & Bigelow are among the most prominent; but I can say nothing of their...fitness; nor whether either of them would be attainable. Mr. Elliot of S. Carolina enjoys a very high reputation; but is he not either a wealthy amateur, or already in a professional niche? I understand Mr. Gilmmore to decline the professorship o f Law; unless satisfactory associates should be obtained. In filling that Department we are restricted to the U.S. or rather to our own state, and the difficulty will be very great. I doubt much whether my neighbor...would leave his pursuits & his home for such a berth...Leslie would...prize, but his terms seem to forbid the thought of him. If he could be brought over at and admissible expense the chance of keeping him might balance the other objections. There were so many candidates of the Hotels [?] at our late Meeting who have & will spread, the knowledge of the time agreed on for calling them, that a change of it might beget in former worse than the inconveniencency [sic] to those appointed, from a premature letting them. It may be proper for Mr. Brokenbrough to impress on them the possibility that they may pay dead rent larger than they suppose..."". On the verso, THOMAS JEFFERSON has added a short docket: ""Madison Ja. Montpellier. Oct. 9. 24. recd. Oct. 10"". Gilmore soon returned to America with five professors in tow including George Long, Thomas H. Key, Charles Bonnycastle, Robley Dungyson and John Patson Emmet. These men, with a few Americans, formed the first core faculty of the University of Virginia, and though many of them left within a few years, they managed to help establish the school's reputation as a important academic institution. Gilmmore eventually took the law seat offered previously, but died soon afterwards. Usual folds, two words' loss on third page, repaired with paper on verso, a few minor fold splits at margins, mounting strip along left margin, otherwise very good.
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