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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Jerry Hooper to his Master, October 19, 1861:
Electronic Edition.
Author: Hooper, Jerry
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. 8K
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:
2007-02-20, Caitlin R. Donnelly finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: John DeBerniere Hooper Papers (#835), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Jerry Hooper to his Master, October 19,
1861
Author: Jerry Hooper
Description: 1 page, 1 page image
Note:
Call number 835 (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.
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.
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.
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Chapel Hill N.C.
Oct 19th 1861
Oct 19th 1861
Master:
All is well but Lucy. She is about but not very well. I am sorry I
did not have the opportunity of writing sooner. I have a bad chance to write.
Business is dull. I am just able to live. I have no young men to wait upon and
can get into no very profitable business. If times was like they have been I
could have earned good wages. I have done all I could. If you are satisfied
please let your humble slave know, So that I can make farther arrangements. I
lost about half my last sessions wages. When the war broke out the Students
volunteered and did not pay me for my labor.
My youngest child is able to sit
alone. My Wife has generaly kept up
pretty well. Provissions is very high.
Please let me know how all are.
I remain your faithful obedient an humble slave.
Jerry Hooper