1To Thomas Jefferson from Franklin Bache, 27 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In July last, I wrote to Judge Cooper, President of South Carolina College, respecting a vacant professorship of chemistry, which I saw, by the public papers of Charleston, was to be filled. In his reply, which was very frank and satisfactory, he informed me of the strong claims of M r Vanuxem, his present–adjunct, in the event of his declining the department of Chemistry, and the great...