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Primary document
Title:
Petition of Elisha Mitchell Requesting a Leave of Absence, July
31, 1853: Electronic Edition.
Author: Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
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
Sarah Ficke
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:
2005-07-19, Sarah Ficke finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers (#40005),
University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Petition of Elisha Mitchell Requesting a Leave of Absence, July 31, 1853
Author: Elisha Mitchell
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 40005 (University Archives, 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.
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.
Petition of Elisha
Mitchell
Requesting a Leave of Absence, July 31, 1853
Requesting a Leave of Absence, July 31, 1853Page 1
The undersigned, professor in the University of North Carolina,
respectfully represents to the Hon. Board of Trustees of the same that he graduated
at Yale
College in Sept. 1813 — that after the lapse of 40 years
(nearly) the surviving members of the class to which he belonged propose to have
a "reunion" on the 27th day of July next being the day
preceding the annual commencement in that institution.
It would be very agreeable to him to see those who were his companions in study
in some instances at the preparatory school — and in others his
associates during a period of four years — to see them once more.
He therefore craves leave of absence from the University for
a term of not less than fourteen days, after the 24th of
July next; with a view to the object just specified as also, to transact some
business connected with the course of instruction in the department of which he
has the charge.