Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent.

12mo, 3 pp. 42 lines of text. Clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Small ink stain at foot of reverse of blank second leaf (not affecting text). Interesting letter, revealing of the politics surrounding appointments within nineteenth-century Harvard. The 'Lectureship' having been 'carried throough', Everett repeats his 'very special request that in some way the Undergraduates may have an opportunity of attending the course - This I regard as vital'. Reports the view of 'Mr. Eliot' on the idea that Everett 'desired to be on the staff of instructors at Harvard'. 'I told him [...] that I had always wished it - that Mr. Felton [Cornelius Conway Felton, Professor of Greek at Harvard] promised it to me, and that I presumed Dr Hill steadily kept it away'. He has been 'deeply chagrined to see men far Junior to me in College, & far below me in rank, appointed to posts in the Latin, Greek, & Historical departments'. He agrees with Eliot that the question 'whether I was likely to need the salary' is 'an absurd one': 'let me say, point blank, I do!' Continues to press his claim to the conclusion of the letter, which ends 'This is of course semi-private -'.