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Edwards Amasa Park letter to the Trustees of Amherst College with note to Heman Humphrey, 1844 June 28
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Creator: Park, Edwards Amasa, 1808-1900
Addressee: Humphrey, Heman, 1779-1861
Addressee: Amherst College. Board of Trustees
Addressee: Humphrey, Heman, 1779-1861
Addressee: Amherst College. Board of Trustees
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1844-06-28
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Edwards A. Park, a professor at Andover Theological Society, letter to the Trustees of Amherst College in which Park responds to the request of the Trustees to appoint him President of Amherst College. He states that he received the copy of the vote the Trustees made at a meeting on the nineteenth, and he is honored. He writes that he cannot deny that Amherst would be a more agreeable place or residence than about any other place, and discusses the town and the character of its citizens. He also writes positively of Amherst College and states his interest in the welfare of the College. However, Park goes on to say, he does not see how he could abandon his department of Sacred Rhetoric and turn his attention to a different set of studies. He writes that he also believes his physical system is insufficient to sustain the responsibilities of the Presidency of Amherst College. He thanks the Trustees for their offer, but declines it. Following the letter to the Trustees, which is signed by Park (although written in an unattributed hand), there is a brief letter to Heman Humphrey (written in Park's hand) asking that Humphrey communicate the preceding letter to the Board of Trustees along with his assurances that it was a difficult decision for him.
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