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Primary document
Title:
Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain, September 25,
1856: Electronic Edition.
Author: Manly, Charles, 1795-1871
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
Bari Helms
Text encoded by
Brian Dietz
First Edition, 2005
Size of electronic edition: ca. 9K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2005
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:
2005-08-03, Brian Dietz finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: David L. Swain Papers (#706), Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Letter from Charles Manly to David L. Swain,
September 25, 1856
Author: Chass Manly
Description: 2 pages, 2 page images
Note:
Call number 706 (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
Raleigh,
Sep. 25/56
My Dear Gov.,
I have been desirous for several days to write you a short confidential note to
express my true satisfaction & even admiration of the tone &
dignity & temper exhibited in the Faculty's reply to the late
Resolutions of the Executive Comm
.
Without any direct charge of delinquency there is a spirit of querulousness
& insinuation of laxity in government in those resolutions that I did
not like. The apparent rebuke is, to me, the more objectionable on account of
its injustice & unmerited sting.
I had often said it & now repeat the solemn conviction founded on good
proof, that in the enforcement of the Laws of the College, firmly yet mildly, in
the able & parental & assiduous culture of the young men morally
& intellectually, a more devoted & faithful Body of men than the
Faculty of our University does not exist.
Page 2
If further proof of this were wanted the spirit of conscious
rectitude & the calm & dignified rebuke to snappishness conveyed
in the response would be more than sufficient. Withal, it is eminently diplomatic; worthy of Tallyrand's best efforts.
Page 2
But I have said enough. I could say much more if my strength permitted. I am very
weak, every way; greatly reduced in bulk.
This is strictly a private note to you who I know is my friend. Perhaps you had
[best] burn it up after reading.
I do not know what has become of my poor Boy Basil where he is or what he is about. His
disobedience & recklessness may prevail over all the efforts of his
parents & friends but it will be a poor triumph to bring down a Father's
gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Faithfully & truly yours