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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Thomas Ruffin, Jr. to his father, Thomas Ruffin,
July 18, 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:
2007-04-02, 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, July 18, 1842
Description: 3 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 641 (Southern Historical Collection,
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 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]
Dear Father
You have, no doubt, been long expecting a letter from me, but you will excuse me,
for not writing sooner, for I have been buisied, by moveing my things, into my
new room & placeing all things in their right order.
I suppose that you recceived Mr Brodnax's letter, several days since & he told you about
your affairs in Rockingham, at
least he said that he did so, & he also told you that James, Fred, & Rufus had all joined college &
that stood excellent examinations, Fred & myself room togather in an excellent room, James & George McNeill room
in one not quite so good & Rufus has an excellent room, but has it with two other students so
that it is rather crowed, & they all seem very well satisfied. James boards with the doctor, Fred & Rufus with Mr Owen,
The students have had one frolic this session, & two of them were
dismissed, but
Page [2]
have been taken back again, at our
request, & our pledgeing ourselves that we would never join in another
blacking club I mean a club to black the freshmen
Page [2]
As it is a very difficult matter to get books here & then we have to
give double price for them, even if we get them from Turner & Hughes, for he sells them much dearer here than
in Raleigh knowing that we are compelled to have the books, it matters not
at what price he imposes on us in that manner & you will please to get
me a Leriza’s French Grammar,
Meadows French
Dictionary, Excerpta Latinis, Perrin’s Fables, & an Astronomy. — Please to
send them up as soon as possible, for we will commence them in a day or so.
These are not all the books which I will use this session, but I can procure the
others here at half price from the members of the last class.
I have a lesson to get this evening & the stage leaves soon & I
must stop. Dr
Mitchell
has ten boarders & it is very crowed there, &
as I am the oldest boarder there, more is expected of me than the others,
& that renders it not quite so agreable as formily.
has ten boarders & it is very crowed there, &
as I am the oldest boarder there, more is expected of me than the others,
& that renders it not quite so agreable as formily.There is nothing else new or interesting
Page [3]
I remain your affection. Son
Thomas Ruffin
Chapel Hill.
In going to recitation this morning, Mr Hooper
told
us that we need not get a Excerpta Latinis so you will please not purchase it,
& I have the book to be used in its stead.
told
us that we need not get a Excerpta Latinis so you will please not purchase it,
& I have the book to be used in its stead.Thomas Ruffin
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