© This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital
library, Documenting the American South.
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.
The reception of your letter afforded me perplexity, curiosity & pleasure. Perplexity in
finding out those fractions, curiosity to know what they contained and pleasure to hear from you but
I must confess that you did not give me as much news as I desired or expected to hear. In your next
you must be more profuse & give me an account of all the little incidents that have taken place since I left. I was not surprised to hear
of the separation of Smith & his wife. It has taken place so often that I dont wonder at it
at all, but it seems rather strange that the people of mston
A fellow, calling himself the
Why is it that
[Included are 11 lines of mathematic figures resembling fractions that based on the statement below
appear to be a code. It is unclear if the code was used in the original letter or just as a means to
preserve his privacy in his letter book. In
As you value me as a friend, I hope you will not disclose the above under
You say nothing in your letter about the Wednesday night meeting. I truly hope it has not perished
in its bud but that it increases continually in interest & benefit to the souls of all those
who attend it, you must write me all about it, the state of religion in the church also which I am
afraid is continually degenerating. I hope, you still hold out faithful, that amid all the snares, temptations
& difficulties to which you are continually exposed that you still remain firm as adamant & never let