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Francis Lieber Papers

出版	1808
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ucMDaAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Letter, 4 February 1841 (Columbia, S.C.) from Lieber to Justice Joseph Story (1779-1845) of the United States Supreme Court, discussing his recent writing projects and forwarding an inquiry from Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier (1787-1867), Professor of Law at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), as to location of books apparently lost in transit, that Story had promised to loan to Mittermaier, which he needed for his "work on the present state of criminal science." Lieber offers praise for Mittermaier and his important work on criminal law, summarizing, that there were "very few, I believe, possessed of greater capability, both moral and scientific, to aid it, than our excellent friend"; Lieber also discusses recent correspondence with John Jacob Astor (1763-1848), "nearly six years ago I told him that it would be worth his while to consider ... establishing some professorship ... in N.Y. for the furtherance of German Knowledge, science, & c ... to serve as one of the bridges for international exchange of knowledge." Lieber expressed surprise that after not hearing from Astor again on the subject he had lately "received suddenly a letter, informing me that upon inquiry he had found that Columbia College, N. York, had ample means of its own to establish a chair of the kind we had spoken of," although he believed that Astor's "whole attention is directed to the establishment of a Library, and that those who aid him in this, mean to exclude all other foundations."