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Primary document
Title:
Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary Ferrand
Henderson, May 21, 1862 : Electronic Edition.
Author: Henderson, John, fl. 1863
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
Caitlin R. Donnelly
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:
2007-05-24, Caitlin R. Donnelly finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: John Steele Henderson Papers (#327), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from John Henderson to his mother, Mary
Ferrand Henderson, May 21, 1862
Author: John
Description: 4 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 327 (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]
Chapel
Hill
May 21st 1862
My Dear Mother
You must excuse me for not writing to you this week at the usual time, as I have
had to review for several days past. Next week is examination week and I expect
to get a terrible rushing. In my last letter I asked you to get me some cloth to
make two suits of clothes; I hope you will attend to it immediately, as I havent
got a single suit of clothes winter or summer but the one I have on my back. I
wish you could get me a nice
Page [2]
suit. I never was so much in need of clothes in
my life as I am at present. I wish you would get the cloth so that I can have
them made immediately after my arrival at home. The Proprietors of the boarding
houses here, speak of charging one hundred and twenty ($120) for board
next session; if they charge that much I dont expect, Father will send me back here. I hope you will
be able to get cloth enough to make me a nice suit of clothes. The boots, you
sent want worth a cent; I had scarcely worn them a week before they began to
wear. They are completely worthless now. I will get a pair of shoes in Chapel Hill, if
I can. I hope
Page [3]
Ham
Jones
is not seriously wounded, but that he will soon recover. I am glad
to hear Len has had such a nice time with his friends in Granville. I dont believe there are any slate pencils on the Hill,
but if there are I will try to get Richard one. Tell Dick schoolmates consider pencils, &c public property and that
he must never have more than one at a time, and if he
does lend out always remember, to whom he lends, and make them give it back. Our church was not even
represented in the convention. I dont see, why Mr Haughton could not have come himself. They had
barely enough for a quorum. The Bishop preached twice; he is a real
Page [4]
"high churchman." he thinks no
one has a right to preach except those, who are ordained by a Bishop, who
descend from the apostles (I mean spiritual descent of course). I have nothing
to find fault with him for, as I am a "High Churchman" myself;
but I do think it strange, that he should preach such doctrines, when several of
his own brothers are Presbyterian ministers. I saw Mr Mason at convention; he looks well and
hearty, and was very glad to see me. I will be home about about the sixth of
June, Providence permitting I will let know for certain in last letter. Write
soon to, your aff son Love to all.
Page [2]
Page [3]
is not seriously wounded, but that he will soon recover. I am glad
to hear Len has had such a nice time with his friends in Granville. I dont believe there are any slate pencils on the Hill,
but if there are I will try to get Richard one. Tell Dick schoolmates consider pencils, &c public property and that
he must never have more than one at a time, and if he
does lend out always remember, to whom he lends, and make them give it back. Our church was not even
represented in the convention. I dont see, why Mr Haughton could not have come himself. They had
barely enough for a quorum. The Bishop preached twice; he is a real Page [4]
John