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University July 24th 1796

Sir,

You will, without doubt, be expecting
some accounts from me long before the arrival
of this but I delayed giving an answer to your
letter until the meeting of the Board of Trustees
which was on the 15th in that I might have it
in my power to write to you more fully for as
a teacher in the University I had no authority to
give you any encouragement that could be relied
upon without the concurrence of the Trustees.

In answer to the several queries which you
proposed - I am to inform you that the offices of the
University are President who is professor of Rhetoric
Professor of Moral Philosophy
&[??] letters - Professor of Natural Philosophy - Professor
of Mathematics - of Chemistry, & of languages in
[Scientifix?] Professorships - Revd. Ker who has lately left
[??] was professor of languages & performed the