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Primary document
Title:
Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, March 7,
1796: Electronic Edition.
Author: Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
Stephanie Adamson
Images scanned by
Stephanie Adamson
Text encoded by
Elizabeth McAulay
First Edition, 2006
Size of electronic edition: ca. 16K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2006
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2006-10-23, Elizabeth McAulay finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Ernest Haywood Collection of Haywood Family Papers
(#1290), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from William R. Davie to John Haywood, March
7, 1796
Author: Wm. R. Davie
Description: 3 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 1290 (Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Editorial practices
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the Southern Historical Collection, University of 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 text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
All quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.
All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
All em dashes are encoded as —.
Indentation in lines has not been preserved.
For more information about transcription and other editorial decisions, see the section Editorial Practices.
Page [1]
Halifax
March 7th. 96.
Dear Sir,
Mr Blount
has published our advertisement in the Aurora at Philadelphia, where it will be
continued for two months; but he informs me there is little hope of inducing an
Undertaker from that part of the Country to come forward, the spirit and rage of
building is such in New
York, Philadelphia and the Federal city, that every man of any talents in that way is already
advantageously engaged, and the wages of Carpenters bricklayers &c.
enormously high, far beyond any thing given in this Country.
Mr Hodge will insert the
advertisement in his Journal this week and continue it until the meeting of the
Commissioners; but
for my own part, I am acquainted with no person who would probably offer to whom
I would willingly give the contract; unless we can get some man of character,
and a professed workman, we shall experience the same endless vexation, we have
already undergone in that sort of business with Mr. Patterson,
Page [2]
and where the man can be found on whom we could
rely for the literal fulfillment of his contract in the absence of the Trustees I do not know.
Page [2]
Again, I must confess to you, that my mind is not altogether clear with regard to
the means, such a House as we want cannot be built for much less than
£10,000. I beg you to think of this matter, and as you are in
possession of some statements, see what certain appropriations could be made, on
an advance required at 6, 12 months and 2 years; I should be extremely sorry to
see our funds anticipated or embarrassed; but I shall rely entirely upon your
judgment in this important part of the business, only state it upon paper, and I
will abide by the result.
—All
this is of course entre nous.—
From some rumours that I have heard, I am afraid that the Mission of Hunt and Hinton has effected very little with Messr. Hodge
& Co, an accomodation that would have immediately terminated in the
production of some certain sum, was at present an object of great importance.
I am in hourly expectation of hearing the dreadful
Page [3]
explosion of the political Vesuvius in Philadelphia, they have been
assiduously collecting combustibles of all sorts for three months past, and if I
am not greatly mistaken in my advices the phlogistic patriotism of our
new-fangled republicans will not be much longer repressed; the treaty with Spain, the Regency of
Algiers, and the King of G. Brittain are now
all come to hand; so there will be work for minds of all sizes, even Jim & our Aleck I hope will come in for
some share of consideration. What a ridiculous farce is "this world's
mad business"!
Page [3]
Farewell! shall see you at Hills [unrecovered] not on the way,
and believe me sincer [unrecovered]
yours
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