I have entered college and am about to recite my first lesson on
ancient geography I have taken up my board at the same place where
uncle James
boards
and which is
the best place in the village it is a very good house and I
have think I shall board as long as I
stay here;
Mr Bingham
tried to get my board a doctor
Caldwell's
but his wife being sick
I cou he could not take me. I am in very
good health and have not been sick since I got clear of that coald. It is very
healthy here and there are very few people sick; there is a great drought in
this part of the contry and it is thought there will not be more than half
crops made there has not been
rainexcept within a few days a sufficcent quantity of
rain in a-bout three months.
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I
shall h have to study
very hard but neverthe less I have adopted the plan of not eating much and
taking regular exercise we recite three lessons every day one in the morning
and another at eleven Oclock and a third in the evening, I
have but little time to spare.
Uncle
James
is a very hard student he studies nearly all day and very late at
night and I am glad to say that he studies to some purpose he about the best
scholar in his class and it is very likely that he will speak the latin speach
which is a great honour. When I left
Hillsborough for
Chapel
Hill
Mr Bingham
gave me 80 dollars to bear my expenses for the
present session and told me if
I I r
equired more he would give it
to me, but I feel a diffidence in asking or
writting to him for money which I would not feel by applying to you and I being
no more his scholar it would be as well for me nex session to get the money
from you that is if it accords with your
m wishes it is now now about ten Oclock and I must go to bed
and end my
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letter by telling you good night please
give my love to
Grand ma and
and
respects to all my acquainta
ences