<hi rend="bold" TEIform="hi">Letter from John B. Giles to Adlai Osborne, July 29, 1806:</hi> Electronic Edition. Giles, John B., 1788-1846 Erika Lindemann Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Erika Lindemann and Julia Stockton Images scanned by Mara E. Dabrishus Text encoded by Sarah Ficke First Edition, 2005 ca. 12K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 <hi rend="italic" TEIform="hi">True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students in North Carolina</hi> written by Lindemann, Erika Adlai Osborne Papers (#2524-z), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter from John B. Giles to Adlai Osborne, July 29, 1806 Giles, John B. 2 pages, 3 page images 1806 Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Call number 2524-z (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Giles tells his friend, a former student, that he has joined the junior class; a tooth extraction cost him part of his jaw bone.

 Letter from John B. Giles to Adlai Osborne, July 29, 18061 Chapel Hill July 29th 1806 Friend Adlai)

Af After a slight and approved examination on the Latin I entered the Junior Class—Being extreamly rusty in what little Greek I had read I would not attempt an examination I have to prepare my self on it before the 15 November—I study Geography with the sophomore class.2

I will be extreamly happy to hear from you.

The day after I arrived I was taken most violently with the twoth acke, I suffered the most excrutiating pain immagi[n]able—for near four days—I then resolved to have it drawn—I was recommended to a Gentleman as a very expert at the business—after three severe trials he extracted it and brought with it a peice of the gaw bone—I am very well at present and I am much obliged to the Gentleman but I think he will never draw an other for me

Tender my best respects to Spruce David Nesbit, and D– Fortry3 all and to all my Old freinds

I am Sin[cerely] yours Jno Giles4

1. Adlai Osborne Papers, SHC. The letter is addressed "Mr Adlai L. Osborne/ Salisbury"; the postage endorsement reads "Chapel Hill 29th July} 12 1/2." The word "post" appears in the lower left corner.

2. The 1803 curriculum for first-year students required examinations in Virgil, Horace's odes, and Lucian's dialogues (in place of the Greek Testament). Sophomores studied Cicero, geography, arithmetic, Noah Webster's and Robert Lowth's English grammars, and Horace. Juniors no longer studied astronomy but were examined in algebra, Alexander Ewing's A Synopsis of Practical Mathematics, Euclid, trigonometry, heights and distances, navigation, and logarithms. Seniors studied Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Claude François Xavier Millot's Elements of General History, and William Paley's The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (Battle 1:168-69). By 1806 the trustees had revised the curriculum to require of every graduate a knowledge of Greek.

3. "D– Fortry" may be Daniel M. Forney .

4. A second hand has written underneath the signature "[? John B. Giles/of Salisbury]."