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Primary document
Title: Student Letter to David L. Swain About His
Leaving the University, June 6, 1868: Electronic Edition.
Author: Pearson, William S. (William Simpson), 1849-1920
Author: Means, Paul Barringer, 1845-1911
Author: McNeill, Thomas A.
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
Risa Mulligan
First Edition,
2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 7K
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:
2005-07-18, Risa Mulligan finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: University of North Carolina Papers
(#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Student Letter to David L. Swain About His
Leaving the University, June 6, 1868
Author: William S. Pearson
Author: Paul B. Means
Author: Thomas A. McNeill
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 40005 (University Archives,
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.
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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
North Carolina
June the 6th 1868
June the 6th 1868
Dear Sir & Instructor
The undersigned in behalf of the Senior Class of 1868 desire to
present you the Dressing Case, which accompanies this, as a mark of the high
esteem, which each & all of us feel towards your honored self. The peculiar
circumstances, which have characterized the connection between you & us as
instructor & pupils lead us to believe that our future course of life will
be watched by you with more than ordinary interest & anxiety.
You have been a father to each & every one of us during our
entire college life & we wish at this its close to add the unqualified
testimonial of what may be your last Senior Class to your unchanging worth as
President of the
University, as Professor of International &
Constitutional Law & as a
Christian
gentleman.