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Primary document
Title:
Letter, February 8, 1865 (In Which Fabius H. Busbee States that
He is Enclosing an Autograph of Andrew Jackson and Robert E. Lee and that He
is Having the Autograph of Jefferson Davis Sent Later) : Electronic
Edition.
Author: Busbee, Fabius 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
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:
2007-05-31, Caitlin R. Donnelly finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Records of the Philanthropic Society (#40166),
University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter, February 8, 1865 (In Which Fabius H. Busbee
States that He is Enclosing an Autograph of Andrew Jackson and Robert E.
Lee and that He is Having the Autograph of Jefferson Davis Sent Later)
Author: Fab. H. Busbee
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 40166 (University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
Originals are in the University Archives, 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.
Letter, February 8, 1865 (In Which Fabius H. Busbee States that He is Enclosing an Autograph of
Andrew
Jackson
and Robert E. Lee and that He is Having the Autograph of Jefferson Davis
Sent Later)
and Robert E. Lee and that He is Having the Autograph of Jefferson Davis
Sent Later) Page [1]
Raleigh. Feb'y. 8th 1865.
Com. of Correspondence,
Gentlemen,
To show that the welfare and interests of our Society
are still of the highest importance to me, I herewith transmit the autographs of
President Andrew
Jackson
and Gen. Robt. E. Lee.
and Gen. Robt. E. Lee. The former has been in possession of the family for some time — the
latter I obtained on application to Gen. Lee. [unrecovered]
have very much feared that the Society would be
greatly demoralized on account of the paucity of students, but entertain the
hope that as long as the University of North
Carolina is in operation, so long will the Philanthropic Society
be the exponent of "Virtue, Liberty and Science." I have
applied to Pres. Davis for his signature, which, if he sends, I will
forward to the Society.
The idea of sending the autographs was suggested to me on seeing the letter of
Ben.
Franklin in the Dialectic Library. Hoping that success
and harmony may ever attend our noble Society,
I am respectfully yours
Fab. H. Busbee
Mr. P. H. Winston and others