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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Richard Harrison Speight to his mother, Emma
Speight, August 22, 1867: Electronic Edition.
Author: Speight, Richard Harrison
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:
2007-03-03, Caitlin R. Donnelly finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: John Francis Speight Papers (#3914), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Richard Harrison Speight to his mother,
Emma Speight, August 22, 1867
Author: R H Speight
Description: 3 pages, 3 page images
Note:
Call number 3914 (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.
Page [1]
Chapel
Hill
Aug, 22nd 67
Dear Mother
I received your very kind letter day before yesterday, & should have
replied immediately but my lessons were so difficult that I couldent find time I
have to study a great deal harder this sesions to keep
"respectable" even, I thought that I would try to get a better
"stand" this session, but the course is so much harder, and I
am so much behind my class in Greek that I dont think it possible if possible,
not probable. I hope you have had a pleasant visit in Greene. I am very sorry indeed to hear of the
death of Mr Lowe's child.
I hope will get permanently after a while. How long he intend staying at Yadkin? They commenced
registering here monday.
Page 2
A great many negroes registered on that day I dont know whether many whites have
registered or not. I see that Gen. Sickles has issued
an order prohibiting negroes from qualifying as Jurors in the next term of the
courts.
I heard to day that Dr Hubbard
had sent in his resignation but I
suppose he will be appoited again. I understand that the trustees wish
all of the faculty to resign, in order to completely reorganize them. I reckon
all who are here now will be appointed again.
had sent in his resignation but I
suppose he will be appoited again. I understand that the trustees wish
all of the faculty to resign, in order to completely reorganize them. I reckon
all who are here now will be appointed again.If the trustees dont make some radical in the University it wont be in operation twelve months longer.
I dont take any paper, Lukie takes the LaCrosse Dem. I will be
Page 3
very much obliged if
you will send me the tri-, or semi-weekly Inteligencer. I am very much hurried
or I would have written this more carefully. Please excuse it Give my love to
Cousin Clio
John & Emma & kiss the
last named for me.
Page 3
Write soon to your very aff son
R H Speight
PS No one seems to have any idea who will take Gov Swains
Some doubt
whether his resignation will be accepted.
Some doubt
whether his resignation will be accepted. I send you by the same mail in which I send this a poem called Beechenbrook, The
ladies generally speak very highly of it I hope you
will like it