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Primary document
Title:
Letter from William H. Maverick to his mother, November 19,
1866: Electronic Edition.
Author: Maverick, William H.
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
Caitlin R. Donnelly
Text encoded by
Mike Millner
First Edition, 2007
Size of electronic edition: ca. 12K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2007
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:
2007-04-10, Mike Millner finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: W.H. Maverick Papers (#498-z), Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from William H. Maverick to his mother,
November 19, 1866
Author: Willie Maverick
Description: 4 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 498-z (Southern Historical Collection,
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.
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.
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.
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Chapel Hill N.C.
Nov 19th. 1866
Nov 19th. 1866
Dear Mother
About a week ago I received your very welcome letter. "Home once
more"! What a glorious idea, no doubt you all now appreciate how dear
to one is home. I received a letter from Mary this morning, & indeed I was glad to receive
it. Mary did not say but from
the way she wrote I understand that you have received my last letter to you
"Written on sunday, about church time" & in that
letter I informed you of the places where George & myself would spend our winter vacations.
College duties will be performed for the last time this session on the day befor
thanksgiving's day—on the 27th of this month, the
night of which day I hope to pull up stakes
& travel for Wilmington in in company
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with my friend John McIlhenny, in whose care I will expect my letters
to be directed.
Page [2]
Cholera has never approached this place.
I am ashamed to say that I have not answered sister Ader's letter to me — but I will in
a few days. I was extremely glad to see from your's & Marys letter that Sister Ada & Major Minter were entirely well again.
Two or three weeks ago we received the $3.50 sent to us by Pa through Major Minter. We are now preparing for examination
& some are studying very hard — George among them. I reckon George will take first all around. You
asked me in your last to tell you how much I studied. I will tell you exactly
what I do here. My Latin & Greek I study very little, you ask me why?
Well — of Greek you know I had
Page [3]
never
learned my alphabet before coming here, whereas boys coming here &
entering the Freshman class are required to have studied enough Latin &
Greek to have occupied at least two years of hard studying before coming
&c. Latin I had studied in all about eight months before coming here.
French I study tolerably well — Mathematics I study very well. I am
aware that boys have been in worse "fixes" here than I am
& before leaving have taken first. You will ask what in the world I can
be doing all the time? I answer that I am learning how to study, instead of my
text-books (which were always obnoxious to me) I am studying History &
I have now trained myself so well that one has never seen me playing (wasting my
time away) these last two months next session I mean to turn my studying history
into studying my text books. This session I
Page [4]
have
read between five & six thousand pages of history besides several
useful book not history. I do not read novels. I am determined &
promise you & myself that next session I will take a stand.
Page [3]
Page [4]
Mary says that Sam is going bear hunting with Policarifio & others I
envey him much & would give any thing to go with him. I hope Albert knows more about book
than I did at his age. I will write home again very soon.
George & myself are
in perfectly good health. Please tell Albert to hang up my sock for me christmas eve (night), maybe
I am not forgotten by S.C.
With love to all. I bid you adieu.
Your Loving Son
Willie Maverick