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Enclosure: Constantine S. Rafinesque to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 16 September 1819

Enclosure

Constantine S. Rafinesque to University of Virginia Board of Visitors

Lexington Ky 16th Septr 1819.

Gentlemen

I beg leave to offer myself as a Candidate for the Professorship of Natural History (in all its branches, such as Botany, Zoology, Mineralogy & Geology:) in your University, whenever such an appointment shall be made.

I am respectfully
Gentlemen Your most humble Servt
C. S. Rafinesque
{ Professor of Botany & Natural history in the Transylvania University &c
{ Member of the Royal Institute of Naples, the Italian Society of Arts & Sciences, the Literary & philosophical Society of Newyork, the historical Society of Newyork, the Lyceum of Natural history of Newyork, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia&c
{  Author of the Analysis of Nature; the New Genera of Sicilian Animals & Plants, the Mirror of Sciences, the flora of Louisiana &c

RC (ViU: TJP); on verso of address cover of covering letter; between dateline and salutation: “To the Trustees of the Central University of Virginia.”

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Enclosure: Constantine S. Rafinesque to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 16 September 1819
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Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel
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University of Virginia Board of Visitors
Date
16 September 1819

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“Enclosure: Constantine S. Rafinesque to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 16 September 1819,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0026-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 41–42.]