Lyman Beecher's Resignation Letter

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Line 1                          To the Trustees of Lane Seminary

Line 2              Gentlemen

Line 3                                      It is now 18 years

Line 4              since my relation to Lane Seminary

Line 5              commenced & the advanced peri

Line 6              od of my life & the preservation

Line 7              of my own writings induce me to

Line 8              request that you will accept [?] my resigna

Line 9              tion burdened as the board the last years

Line 10            & release me wholly from this time

Line 11            from all cares & labours & [may] [from]

Line 12            [unclear] connected with the Semi

nary Institution

Line 14            Never theless my deep & absorb

Line 15            ing interest in the Seminary

Line 16            will not [cease] & all such vol

Line 17            untary uncommitted labours as

Line 18            I may be ^ able to render afford will be

Line 19            gladly rendered

Line 20            It would not therfore be impact

Line 21            ful to me to [retain] some such

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Line 1              relation to the Seminary or may

Line 2              mend on my accep to [the] institution [that]

Line 3              [unclear] & prosper. Particularly

Line 4              my actions in Public [unclear]

Line 5              [unclear] of the institution & to [unclear]

Line 6              the [unclear] of students both east &

Line 7              west.  May be rather augmented

Line 8              than [unclear] & [unclear]

Line 9              [ny]. Some of my [lectures]

Line 10            The [unclear] I may be able to [unclear]

Line 11            [en] a ^ select course annually to the

Line 12            students which may [unclear] interfere

Line 13            with the regular courses lectures. & may

Line 14            add some interest to the institution

Line 15            I have been requested to remain

Line 16            here this summer & supply the

Line 17            Pulpit. & attend to the concerns

Line 18            of the institution which it would

Line 19            give me pleasure to do_

Line 20            and the state of my health permit

(Lane_119)

Line 1              But my protracted labours [now]

Line 2              [unclear] relaxation & journeying indis

Line 3              pensable.  & the more urgent

Line 4              interests of the Seminary in my ap

Line 5              prehension call upon me to visit

Line 6              the influential [persons] & churches

Line 7              & [unclear] institutions of the

Line 8              West & North to secure their coop

Line 9              eration & patronage Such

Line 10            Such an effort was resolved upon

Line 11            the last year & prevented by the

Line 12            [Cholery]. & in such an effort

Line 13            I am now urged by students &

Line 14            persons from the west. & for

Line 15            it I am prepared. If it meets your

Line 16            approbation & some [unclear] of the

Line 17            [unclear] and can be afforded

Line 18            I am respectfully & affection

Line 19            ately yours

Line 20                                    Lyman Beecher

Line 21            Lane Seminary June 11. 1850

(Lane_120)

Written Vertically:

Line 1              To the Trustees of

Line 2              Lane Seminary

Line 3              Dr. Beecher’s

Line 4              Resignation