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KC: McIlvaine and Buckingham agree that Buckingham's resignation will be best for the college.
Date
6-3-1836
Keywords
letter, McIlvaine, Kenyon College, Buckingham
Recommended Citation
Buckingham, C. P., "Letter to McIlvaine" (1836). Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters. 381.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/mcilvaine_letters/381
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Mount Vernon June 3 1836
Rt. Rev. and D. Sir,
Your reply to my note was received last evening - I thank you for the kind manner in which you have been pleased to speak of my services - I need not say to you that my only object in remaining as long connected with the College as I have, was, that I might serve it. And as it seems clearly to me (and I find by your note it strikes you in the same way) that the interests of the College would be advanced by my withdrawing from it, that will be the course I shall pursue.
I shall mention the matter to no one except (in confidence) to those upon whom, in some measure, my future course may depend.
I am with great respect and esteem
Yours truly,
C. P. Buckingham
P.S. I shall of course continue until the close of this term