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Primary document
Title:
Letter from William Percival to William A. Graham, September 5,
1859: Electronic Edition.
Author: Percival, William
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
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 8K
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:
2005-07-22, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: William A. Graham Papers (#285), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from William Percival to William A. Graham,
September 5, 1859
Author: Wm. Percival
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 285 (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.
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.
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.
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
Raleigh
Septr 5th '59.
Hon
W.
A Graham
Dear sir,
Since I last saw you we lost no time in carrying out in part the resolutions
adopted by Committee. One of the few Contractors is here
and I propose going down with him on next Wednsday and locate all the works.
Something was said about lamps in the grounds. Would they not be likely to be
broken by the Students I would however like to have your views &
Mr.
Camerons as regards the location for I like to have no alternatives
after a matured
Page 2
plan is adopted.
Page 2
I have written regarding the Hot Water furnaces and expect definite replies
daily.
With respt.
Yours very oby.
Wm. Percival