Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated June 22, 1848.
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Carlisle
Dear Baird
I have learned that Prof. Blumenthal is expected to leave Carlisle, and that my
friend the Rev Mr [Biemend?] of Georgetown has been proposed as his successor.
Having been intimately acquainted with Mr B.
for several years, I take
pleasure in saying that I consider him extremely well qualified for the German
professorship, & have no doubt he would be found an efficient, and every way
useful member of your Faculty. [Biemend?] is a native of Hanover, was educated at
Göttingen & bred to the Lutheran ministry. He preached to the German
congregation here for about two years, but has since been employed with credit
and success, as a teacher of ancient & modern languages, chemistry c. Mr. B.
is a good classical scholar, as well as master of his native tongue, &
moreover speaks French & English with accuracy & facility. He is a
person of most excellent character and habits, of much general intelligence, and
experience in teaching, & now in the prime of life. His lady is a native of
Switzerland (Neuchatel) but ed
ucated in France, and his family would be an
agreeable accession to the social circle of your village
Yours very trulyGeo P Marsh