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Primary document
Title: Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L.
Swain, May 31, 1850: Electronic Edition.
Author: Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892
Funding from the University Library, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this
title.
Text transcribed by
Bari Helms
Images scanned by
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Risa Mulligan
First Edition,
2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 7K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
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:
2005-07-29, Risa Mulligan finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: David L. Swain Papers (#706), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Alexander J. Davis to David L.
Swain, May 31, 1850
Author: Alex J. Davis
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 706 (Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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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.
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.
Letters, words and passages marked as deleted or added in originals have been encoded accordingly.
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
N.
Y.
May 31, 1850
Gov.
Swaine
Dear Sir:
I hasten to send you the design for your Alumni Hall. I was
obliged to redraw the whole, but the result has been to improve the plan, so as
to make it such as would be creditable to any University, as a specimen of
classical taste, or to its general character, and proportions, whatever defects
there may be in the details, or execution.
I shall send a specification and some other drawings with the roll
or portfolio (to
Raleigh) on the Lunatic Asylum, in a few days, as I now go
about to prepare the same without delay. Please say to any member of the
lunatic committee that I shall send early next week, by post, a plan of the
foundations of the center building, which the workmen will first want to dig
and lay stone by.
In the mean time I remain
Yours respectfully and
truly