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Title: Invitation to UNC Commencement Ball from W.A. Blount to R.B. Haywood, [May 1843]: Electronic Edition.
Author: Blount, W. A.
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by Amanda Page
Images scanned by Bari Helms
Text encoded by Amanda Page
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

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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:
2005-06-15, Amanda Page finished TEI/XML encoding.
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Title of collection: John Steele Henderson Papers (#327), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Invitation to UNC Commencement Ball from W.A. Blount to R.B. Haywood, [May 1843]
Author: W.A. Blount
Description: 2 pages, 3 page images
Note: Call number 327 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Invitation to UNC Commencement Ball from W.A. Blount to R.B. Haywood, [May 1843]
Blount, W. A.



Page 1
University of North Carolina.
The pleasure of your Company is respectfully
Solicited at a BALL to be given complimentary
to the Graduating Class at the Eagle Hotel.

Managers

    W.A. Blount.
    Charles Bruce.
    John Cowan.
    Phil B. Hawkins.
    Thomas H. Turner.
    E. C. Yellowley .

ATTENDANT MANAGERS



Major, you must be certain to come up to the Ball, and bring all the Girls,

with the respects of your fond nephew—

W. A. Blount, Jr.




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Sent me by Mr Perrin Busbee on my first Commencement at Chapel Hill.

Mary F. Henderson


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