Part of a series:
This transcribed document is part of a digital collection, titled True and Candid
Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students in North
Carolina
written by
Lindemann, Erika
Source(s):
Title of collection: Henry Armand London Papers (#868-z),
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Title of document: Excerpt from the Diary of Henry A. London,
Fall 1864
Author: London, Henry Armand, 1846-1918
Description: 2 pages, 2 page image
Note:
Call number 868-z (Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Topics covered: Examples of Student Writing/Diary and Notebook Excerpts Education/UNC Enrollments and Finances
Editorial practices The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of
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North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. DocSouth staff created a 600 dpi uncompressed TIFF file for each image. The TIFF images were then saved as JPEG images at 100 dpi for web access. Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the
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For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions,
see Dr. Erika Lindemann's explanation under the section Editorial Practices.
Document Summary
An excerpt from London's account book gives his expenses for the
Fall 1864 session, when board cost $200 a month.
1. Henry Armand London Papers, SHC. The leatherbound ledger of 112
numbered and alphabetically tabbed pages measures 4 3/4 by 7 1/4 inches. It is
inscribed "Henry
A. London. Jr
ΔΨ/
Pittsboro
N.C./Born March 1st 1846/Class of
1864-5/
Dialectic
Society/Prof. Undecided/ 'Perseverando
vincam' /Duck/
Miss B.
M...../
Wilmington/
N.C." A table of contents appears on the verso of
the title page. Entries begin on July 22, 1864, and end on November 28, 1864.
The diary also records expenses for the 1864-65 academic year, monies received
in 1869, the dates of letters written and received between July 22 and December
1, 1864, thermometer temperatures for 1867, and notes on a lecture on oxygen
dated August 26, 1864. A second hand has listed professors' names and nicknames
inside the back cover of the diary. The list of expenses excerpted appears on
pages 100 and 101.