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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin,
August 1841 : Electronic Edition.
Author: Ruffin, Thomas, Jr.
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
Mike Millner
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:
2007-03-28, Mike Millner finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Thomas Ruffin Papers (#641), Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas
Ruffin, August 1841
Author: Thomas Ruffin
Description: 2 pages, 3 page images
Note:
Call number 641 (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
Dear father
I received your letter this morning & was some what disapointed at your
not stoping, but I of course am willing to undergo any disapointment if it will,
in the least, lessen the pain of my dear mother. But I was some what surprised at the last part of
your letter in which you mention that you had heard from doctor Jones
, for I did study & can maintain the same standing with my
class, with the same ease. You mention your surprise at my not writing to you
bfore, which I most assuredly would have done, had I known where you were for
Dr
Jones
told me that you would
leave Raleigh in a day or two & that you did not know whether
you would stop or not & November1 told me that they expected you home in less than a week,
when he was up there last & that has been five weeks ago.
, for I did study & can maintain the same standing with my
class, with the same ease. You mention your surprise at my not writing to you
bfore, which I most assuredly would have done, had I known where you were for
Dr
Jones
told me that you would
leave Raleigh in a day or two & that you did not know whether
you would stop or not & November1 told me that they expected you home in less than a week,
when he was up there last & that has been five weeks ago.I have been attending college duties during the last week & my leg
continues to get better still & I have quit doctoring it.
Tell Sister Kate. that I think
she might write to me for I had to sit up in the bed to write to you &
her & that you have answered it long since but that she has not thought
of me since.
I suppose Mr Roulhac has not
returned
Page [2]
for he promised to write to me when he
did.
Page [2]
I have not heard from Sister Anne since Mr Green
came from there
You will please to write to me & tell me to what springs you are going & how long you
will stay.
I expect that you were glad to hear that the bank bill had been vetoed.
Give my love to all & tell Mama that I hope she will both enjoy & be benefited by her
trip.
beleive me your most affectionate son,
Thomas Ruffin.
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Endnotes:
Possibly the slave Davidge [1791-1872], also known as "Dr.
November," who was the carriage driver for Dr. Joseph
Caldwell
.
.