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                <head> Letter from <name key="pn0001463" reg="Ruffin, Thomas, Jr." type="person">Thomas Ruffin, Jr.</name> to his father<name key="pn0001462" reg="Ruffin, Thomas" type="person">Thomas Ruffin</name>, January 29, 1842 </head>
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                        <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place" rend="yes">Chapel
                            Hill</name>
                        <date>Jan 29<hi rend="sup">th</hi> 1842</date>
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                    <salute>Dear <name key="pn0001462" reg="Ruffin, Thomas" type="person">father</name></salute>
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                <p>I would have written to you before if I had not been sick &amp; was
                    prevented from so doing. I was taken sick on last friday week &amp; have
                    been in bed ever since. I sent for D<hi rend="sup">r</hi>. <name key="pn0000874" reg="Jones, Johnston Blakeley" type="person" rend="yes">Jones</name> on
                    sunday &amp; he came &amp; bled me &amp; gave me other medicines.
                    I had chill &amp; fever besides a very sore throat &amp; cold. But I
                    am nearly well &amp; 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.</p>
                <p>D<hi rend="sup">r</hi>
                    <name key="pn0000874" reg="Jones, Johnston Blakeley" type="person">Jones</name> I ought to go to sea
                    &amp; stay two years which, you know, would be very pleasant, &amp; I
                    should like to go very much. There have been a great many sick this session,
                    &amp; D<hi rend="sup">r</hi>
                    <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">J.</name> say that, if the warm
                    weather had continued a week longer, there would have been a great deal more. </p>
                <p>I wrote to <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Mama</name>, the other day
                    for I expected that she would be uneasy about me, for she had heard that I was
                    sick from November,<ref id="ref1" target="note1" rend="sup">1</ref> who went up
                    on last Saturday week.</p>
                <p>There is a good deal of frolicing going on in <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">college</name> this
                    session &amp; I am afraid that the boys will not be <pb id="unc11-08-p02" n="[2]"/>as good as the were last year.</p>
                <p>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 <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">John Brodnax</name> wrote to a nother student he is
                    quite well &amp; still very much pleased.</p>
                <p> I occupy the same room which I did with <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">John Brodnax</name> &amp; although I am not so very well fixed
                    as with him yet I am satisfied with my situation.</p>
                <p>D<hi rend="sup">r</hi>
                    <name key="pn0001194" reg="Mitchell, Elisha" type="person" rend="yes">Mitchel</name> has the same number of boaders as he had last session, but some
                    of them are not pleased with the fare.</p>
                <p>I wish you would send me a course of reading which you think best for me.</p>
                <p>It is dry here as regards the news. of the world, &amp; can think of nothing
                    else to write give my respects to Judge <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Camerons</name> family &amp; Mr <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Boylan</name> &amp; to <name key="x" reg="x" type="person" rend="">Mrs Taylor</name>, but most especilally <hi rend="underscore">to Miss Anne. Tay.</hi>
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                    <salute>I remain your most affectionate <name key="pn0001463" reg="Ruffin, Thomas, Jr." type="person">Son</name></salute>, <signed>
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                    <p>Possibly the slave <name key="pn0000392" reg="Davidge (a slave, also known as &quot;Dr. November&quot;)" type="person">Davidge</name> [1791-1872], also known as "Dr.
                        November," who was the carriage driver for Dr. <name key="pn0000268" reg="Caldwell, Joseph" type="person">Joseph
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