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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin,
January 29, 1842: 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:
2007-03-29, 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, January 29, 1842
Author: Thomas Ruffin
Description: 2 pages, 3 page images
Note:
Call number 641 (Southern Historical Collection,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
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All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as '.
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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
Jan 29th 1842
Dear father
I would have written to you before if I had not been sick & was
prevented from so doing. I was taken sick on last friday week & have
been in bed ever since. I sent for Dr. Jones
on
sunday & he came & bled me & gave me other medicines.
I had chill & fever besides a very sore throat & cold. But I
am nearly well & have commenced my college duties with a determination
not to be absent again from any of them, I was absent just a week from every
thing, I had not been absent before I was sick.
on
sunday & he came & bled me & gave me other medicines.
I had chill & fever besides a very sore throat & cold. But I
am nearly well & have commenced my college duties with a determination
not to be absent again from any of them, I was absent just a week from every
thing, I had not been absent before I was sick.Dr
Jones
I ought to go to sea
& stay two years which, you know, would be very pleasant, & I
should like to go very much. There have been a great many sick this session,
& Dr
J. say that, if the warm
weather had continued a week longer, there would have been a great deal more.
I ought to go to sea
& stay two years which, you know, would be very pleasant, & I
should like to go very much. There have been a great many sick this session,
& Dr
J. say that, if the warm
weather had continued a week longer, there would have been a great deal more. I wrote to Mama, the other day
for I expected that she would be uneasy about me, for she had heard that I was
sick from November,1 who went up
on last Saturday week.
There is a good deal of frolicing going on in college this
session & I am afraid that the boys will not be
Page [2]
as good as the were last year.
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I do not intend to spend near as much as I did last session. I have received a
letter from any one this session. but I saw a letter which John Brodnax wrote to a nother student he is
quite well & still very much pleased.
I occupy the same room which I did with John Brodnax & although I am not so very well fixed
as with him yet I am satisfied with my situation.
Dr
Mitchel
has the same number of boaders as he had last session, but some
of them are not pleased with the fare.
has the same number of boaders as he had last session, but some
of them are not pleased with the fare.I wish you would send me a course of reading which you think best for me.
It is dry here as regards the news. of the world, & can think of nothing
else to write give my respects to Judge Camerons family & Mr Boylan & to Mrs Taylor, but most especilally to Miss Anne. Tay.
I remain 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
.
.