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Primary document
Title:
Letter from John London to Ebenezer Pettigrew, September 29,
1799: Electronic Edition.
Author: London, John Rutherford, b. 1786
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
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 9K
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:
2005-07-25, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Pettigrew Family Papers (#592), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from John London to Ebenezer Pettigrew,
September 29, 1799
Author: John London
Description: 2 pages, 3 page images
Note:
Call number 592 (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.
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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.
Page 1
University
September 29, 1799
My Dear Friend
I have received your letter of july 15 and am glad to hear you enjoy your
health. Your long silence caused me to suppose that my letter had not come
to hand or you had forgot me but your last has prooved to me that it was
occasioned neither through carelessness nor forgetfulness. My indisposition
caused me to come to the university very late and i was very much surprised
in not finding you here as i expected But I hope we will have the pleasure
of seeing one another at School once more This place is not in the most
thriving condition but I hope it will turn out better than I thinke most of
the boys that are here this year will not return next I am afraid, which
will tend to hurt it. Our President has got a horsewiping from a boy which
he and the Teachers
Page 2
had expelled unjustly and we
have been in great confusion in taking his part for he was liked by all the
boys, but everything is put to rights again only our president relished the
wiping so badly as to retire, William Baker
, Robert
alston
, Samuel McCulloch are expelled for taking an
active part in the business. I was in a great hurry or i should have wrote a
great deal more concerning it.
Page 2
, Robert
alston
, Samuel McCulloch are expelled for taking an
active part in the business. I was in a great hurry or i should have wrote a
great deal more concerning it.Pay my respects to your brother John
.
.