Burgwyn, Henry King, Jr.
I was very glad to receive your letter of the 7
th inst. & endeavor to show my appreciation of the pleasure
it conferred on me by answering it as soon as possible. I hope you reached the
plantation before the Equinoctial storm which is now raging here it all its
fury commenced. For if you were to catch a cold upon your already severe one I
am afraid that you would not recover from its effects for a much longer period
than usual so be very careful about going or being out late at night or early
in the morning & let everything go to racket rather than go in the pantry
before breakfast or rather make
Ruthy do it for you for
what is the loss of a few pounds of sugar or coffee which she may appropriate
to herself compared
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to the loss of your health or
what is the same thing an increase of your cold. I study latin hard & do a
good many things for you & I hope that will do two things for me & they
are not to go into the pantry before breakfast or after supper. Make
Ruthy attend to them
before breakfast &
Maria after supper. I
wish you would ask father to pay my bill in
Philadelphia & to order from the man my winter clothes
consisting of a black overcoat $18.00 1 black coat $15.00 1 black
coat at $12.00 1 pair black pant $16.00 1 pair grey $15.00
two vest $3.00 or $2.50 either apiece, making 1 overcoat 2 coats
2 pants & two vests in all costing $62.00 which I will place on my
acct. to his credit when I get them. I also wish very much that you could make
me a dressing gown it would save my clothes very much. I would like to come
home about the middle of October to see
Sumner &
Pollok
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& you in short every person. I can leave here at
11am or 12 [pm] & be at
Weldon that night. When you write please tell me about all
your & fathers motions, prospects & &c I am very desirous of
knowing as much as possible about everything home oh by the bye do you still
persevere in your intintion to to cover over that portion of the piazza between
fathers room & the spare room & make it a place for the guns &
speaking of guns please put father again in mind of sending those guns &
flasks that I placed in the right hand side of the guncase he said he would
send them before I left. I sent father a copy of a speech by
M. W. Miller of
Raleigh
did he receive it. He has not yet answered my letter but I hope to hear from
him this week any how I received a letter from
Sumner yesterday he says
that he looking forward to vacation
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with a good
deal of pleasure & also that he expected to leave
Baltimore the 30
th of September for
home. I know he must enjoy the anticipation of his vacation I expect to write
him today. I have been away from the plantation about a month now & have
not yet hear from
Maria. I heard yesterday
that a former student of this college commited suicide at the house of his
father in
Goldsboro he was sent off from this college for getting
drunk & while in college attempted to kill himself once or twice he was not
twenty one. I am pretty sure & you may rely on it that I will never learn
to smoke until I am twenty five & not then unless you let me.
Walker
&
Les Johnston send their
love to you & the rest. Please ask father to get my clothes as soon as he
conveniently can. With my best love to all & to yourself. Please excuse
blots.