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Primary document
Title:
Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, January 11, 1843:
Electronic Edition.
Author: Ruffin, Thomas, Jr.
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. 10K
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:
2005-12-13, Risa Mulligan finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Thomas Ruffin Papers (#641), Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, January 11, 1843
Author: Thomas Ruffin, Jr.
Description: 3 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 641 (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.
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.
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
Chapel Hill
Jan 11thDear Father
Knowing that you would like to hear how we are all situated, I hasten to inform
you so soon as we got fixed.
James is rooming with George McNeill in their
same old room, which is a right good one; I am still with Fred Brodman who says that he means to study much more
than he did las[t] session & I believe that he will do so, for he has
certainly done more during these few days that he did during the half of last
session.
We found them all well at Dr Mitchell's
with the exception of
Mrs. Mitchell who is still confined to her
room.
with the exception of
Mrs. Mitchell who is still confined to her
room.We also found considerable excitement amongst the students on account of some new
ordinances of the Trustees, one of which is that there shall be a
recitation on Saturday, this prevents our societies from meeting then as we were
used to do & will compell us to do all in one night, half of which ought
to take up nearly the whole of the time. We hope however to get it repealed
& I expect that there will be a petition to that effect sent to the
Trustees.
Page 2
If we fail to get it
repeal[ed], there will be an end, I think, to the Societies & it will be
a great pity to discontinue them after so much labour & money have
expended on them. The Faculty say that they do so in order to put a stop to
frolicing which takes place on friday nights after the adjournment of the
Societies, but it will fail to have that effect for no one frolics then but the
children of college, who will frolic any way, because they think that it is
smart to do so. But Papa the Faculty are to blame for the whole of it. They
admit in to college children of 13 &14 years & the consequence
is that they are compelled to reduce the Standard of Scholarship in order to get
them through. The Societies are a humbug for their members have not the sense,
it cannot be expected that they should have at their age, to keep the straight
there are some here really so young that they do not know how to take care of
themselves.
Page 2
Mr. Smith's carriage went by for George. I heard from Hillsborough the other day & they have the Scarlet fever
there very badly. One of the Mr.
Turners lost three children in one week. I have not heard from home yet
& cannot give you any news from there.
Please to give my respects to Mrs.
Taylor & Miss Anne,
also to Judge Cameron's family & to Martha
Page 3
Cain, ask her to write to me.
Page 3
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